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  • 《疯狂的虚拟货币》
  • NUMBER GO UP: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
  • 图书类型:金融投资      浏览次数:603
  • 作者:Zeke Faux
  • 出 版 社:Crown
    代理公司:ANA/Lauren Li
    页    数:304页
    出版时间:2023年9月
    代理地区:中国大陆、台湾
    审读资料:电子稿
  • 联系人:Rights
内容简介
《疯狂的虚拟货币》是一部令人痛心却又极具娱乐性的内部纪实,讲述了FTX创始人山姆·班克曼-弗里德(Sam Bankman-Fried)和一众书呆子和骗子如何说服全世界将数万亿美元的真金白银用于购买无用的虚拟币。
 
在金融界的边缘地带徘徊多年之后,加密货币在2021年初成为主流。每个人都在谈论它,巨大的投资基金在购买它,汤姆·布雷迪和贾斯汀·比伯等名人为它代言,华盛顿的大人物们在讨论新的法规,似乎它将成为我们金融体系的永久组成部分。看上去好像每个人都知道有人在吹嘘他们从比特币、以太坊、Dogecoin和其他名字怪异的“数字资产”中获得的回报。但害怕错失的情绪仍在蔓延,人们纷纷猜测:加密货币是通往财务自由的新途径吗?几乎没有人知道它是如何运作的,这似乎已经无关紧要。价格越涨越高,就越难抵抗其诱惑。借用加密货币术语中的一句话,唯一重要的就是“价格上涨”。
 
齐克·福克斯敏锐觉察到这一狂热,并开始试图揭开这台新型金融机器背后的巫师的面纱。他首先将目光投向Tether。这一数字货币是由1992年迪士尼电影《巨鸭奇兵》(The Mighty Ducks)中的一位前儿童演员设想出来的。Tether已然是加密货币事实上的银行,有690亿美元涌入其中,据说每个Tether都有一美元的支持。但钱到底在哪里呢? 2022年,加密货币泡沫破裂,Tether的最大客户开始逐一倒闭,在11月达到高潮。就此,曾辉煌一时的FTX宣告其失败。而其创始人山姆·班克曼-弗里德,一位年仅29岁、看似不起眼的青年男子,曾被《财富》杂志认为是“下一个沃伦·巴菲特”。

当福克斯在全球范围内追寻这些相互交织的故事情节时,他被一个令人困扰的问题所驱使。这一切是否只是一场规模空前的全球信心游戏?在萨尔瓦多,他发现这个国家因独裁总统决定将其国库赌在比特币上而陷入困境。一条垃圾邮件将他引向了柬埔寨的一个以加密货币为燃料的人口贩卖团伙。在瑞士卢加诺,他追捕经营Tether的隐居的前整形外科医生,而在巴哈马,福克斯带领读者进入FTX内爆后几天山姆·班克曼-弗里德豪华阁楼的闪耀的悲伤、谎言和妄想。

荒诞的细节和权威的报道为福克斯赢得了“我们伟大的犯罪诗人”(马特·莱文)的称号。《疯狂的虚拟货币》是对世界上有史以来最大的金融狂热的一次引人入胜的叙述。
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“This book is ludicrously compelling. I, quite literally, couldn’t put it down—and I don’t even care about crypto. Zeke Faux writes about this world with such clarity, humor, and perspective that the portrait captures something even larger: a moment in time that we can’t afford not to understand.”
—Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of The Age of Ambition

“This book is riveting, scary, funny, unbelievable, depressing, insane, and many other adjectives, but I’ll stop here and just say: If you want a front-row seat to one of the greatest business stories of all time, you should read Number Go Up now. It’s worth your time and Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, etc.”
—A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler

“Before the crash, Zeke Faux set out to chronicle the rise and fall of crypto. It’s lucky for us that he did, because his book, Number Go Up, is an almost too-good-to-be-true saga that would be impossible to reconstruct unless you were there as it was happening. It’s essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto—and anyone who wants to understand how we can sucker ourselves.”
—Bethany McClean, bestselling co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room

“Number Go Up is both a serious financial investigation and an incredibly entertaining romp through crypto’s wildest days with deep access to all the people responsible and their cadre of true believers. Over and over in the book, Zeke Faux gets the classic confession from the villain explaining how he did the crime—but in Faux’s case, it’s while the crime is ongoing, at over-the-top parties that are celebrating the scams, attended by your favorite celebrities, where Faux seems to be the only one asking uncomfortable questions. This is a definitive, incisive, and revealing tale of crypto’s great promise and epic crash.”
—Sarah Frier, Financial Times/McKinsey Award-winning author of No Filter

“Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up does what should be impossible—it combines meticulous reporting with irresistible storytelling. The book reveals was arguably the most brazen financial con of the twenty-first century and does so without getting mired in abstraction or hype. It is the definitive book about crypto and the only one you'll want to read.”
—Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian 

“Number Go Up is a dizzying safari of the surreal, hilarious, can’t-make-it-up insanity of the crypto boom. Racing across the globe from the Bahamas to Italy to Cambodia, Zeke Faux takes readers behind the velvet rope and onto the mega yachts and multimillion-dollar tropical compounds of the billionaire crypto schemers, hustlers, and evangelists who may all be headed to prison—but are having a riotously good time turning the financial world upside down.”
—Joshua Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil’s Bargain

“A riveting, horrifying, but also endlessly entertaining investigation into the bad parts of crypto (which are most of them). This book is what happens when the funniest financial journalist in America takes on the funniest story in modern finance, and the results are as darkly hilarious as you could hope for.”
—Matt Levine, columnist, Money Stuff

“The only book about crypto you need to read. Faux has gone deeper than anyone inside a movement that aspires to replace traditional finance, but seems more likely to blow up and take the world down with it. Get ready to laugh, then cry, then scratch your head at the sheer insanity of billions of dollars being magicked out of thin air by stoned tech bros. By the end of the book, when Faux brings readers to a compound of crypto scammers working in slavery-like conditions in Cambodia, all your expectations will have shattered. Number Go Up is an instant classic: Liar’s Poker for the era of digital monkey tokens, and written with a sensibility that meets our absurd moment in time.”
—Kit Chellel, co-author of Dead in the Water

“Number Go Up is funny, enraging, racy, and profound. We were waiting for the first great crypto book and Zeke Faux has written it.”
—Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
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