Why people recommend it
Number Go Up by Zeke Faux is an investigative journalism book that exposes the rampant scams, dubious financial practices, and dark underbelly of the cryptocurrency boom. On the December 7, 2023 episode of Behind the Bastards titled Part Two: The Last Sam Bankman-Fried Episodes, host Robert Evans offered the book as essential reading. When discussing the controversies surrounding Sam Bankman-Fried and the broader cryptocurrency industry, Robert Evans told his audience that if they wanted to get something valuable and a deeper understanding about how grifty the whole thing was, and also how grifty Sam was, they should read Number Go Up by Zeke Faux. Robert Evans praised it as a really good book and explicitly recommended it to people curious for the dark side of crypto. Positioned as an alternative or corrective to other accounts like Michael Lewis's Going Infinite, Zeke Faux's work was lauded on Behind the Bastards for delivering a clear-eyed, deeply reported look at the massive financial frauds that characterized the crypto craze and the colorful, cynical figures who profited from it at the expense of everyday investors.
Who recommended it
- Robert Evans Recommended
Robert Evans — 1 mention
“If you do want to get something valuable and a a deeper understanding about like how grifty this whole was and also how grifty Sam was, there's a book called Number Go Up by Zeke Faux, Zeke Faux, um really good book, Number Go Up, which I do recommend to people curious for the dark side of crypto.”