Number Go Up
by Zeke Faux
A Bloomberg reporter chases the crypto boom from Tether to FTX to pig-butchering scams in Cambodia. Funny, skeptical and damning; the best account of the 2021 to 2022 mania.
Read it if…
you want to understand what crypto's boom actually was.
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Skip it if…
you are a believer and do not want the counter-case.
Try instead: Dark Towers →
Three things you will actually use
- Follow the collateral.
- Mania has a human cost far from the traders.
- Skepticism is cheap insurance.
Do this first
Read the chapters on Tether.
Our verdict
The mania, skeptically.
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