95638Number Go Uphttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/number-go-up-3/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1562078/3cb2a557-c9cb-48e3-af3c-df60ebfc235b.jpg?v=638338363852800000656656MXNOrionInStock/Audiolibros/BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED LA TIMES FINANCIAL TIMES WASHINGTON POST GLOBE AND MAILUSED IN EVIDENCE IN THE TRIAL OF SAM BANKMAN-FRIEDIn 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment funds are buying it. Politicians endorse it. TV ads hail it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knows how it works - who cares when everyone is getting rich? But financial crime reporter Zeke Faux cares: even in fraud, there are standards.In the Bahamas, schlubby billionaire wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried tells him how he will use his fortune to save the world. In Cambodia, a spam text unearths a horrifying slavery ring fuelled by crypto. Faux buys a 20,000 cartoon of a mutant ape to gain access to a festival headlined by Snoop Dogg, and talks his way onto the yacht of a riddling crypto founder/former child actor (The Mighty Ducks, 1992) who was among the first to see the power of imaginary treasure. In search of an elusive cash reserve at the foundation of the whole system, the incredulous Faux finds himself crossing three continents, as well as the boundaries of law, taste and economic rationality. Shocking and uproarious, Number Go Up is the essential chronicle of a 3 trillion delusion, the greatest bubble in history....95192Number Go Up656656https://www.gandhi.com.mx/number-go-up-3/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1562078/3cb2a557-c9cb-48e3-af3c-df60ebfc235b.jpg?v=638338363852800000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20239781399611381_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9781399611381_After years on the financial worlds margins, crypto went mainstream in early 2021. Everybody was talking about it: giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady and Justin Bieber endorsed it, and Washington bigwigs debated new regulations, as if it would be a permanent part of our financial system. It seemed like everyone knew someone who was bragging about their returns from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and other bizarrely named "digital assets." FOMO spread: Was crypto the new path to financial freedom? It didnt seem to matter that hardly anyone knew how it worked. The longer prices went up and up, the harder it was to resist. To borrow a phrase from crypto parlance, the only thing that mattered was "number go up."Observing this mania, Zeke Faux set out on a quest to pull back the curtain on the wizards behind this new financial machinery. He first set his sights on Tether, a digital currency dreamed up by a former child actor from the 1992 Disney film The Mighty Ducks. Tether had become cryptos de facto bank, with 69 billion pouring into it. Each Tether was supposedly backed by one dollar. But where was the money? Then, in 2022, the crypto bubble burst, and Tethers biggest customers started collapsing one by one. It culminated in November, when FTX-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, a schlubby 29-year-old Fortune once suggested was "The Next Warren Buffett"-failed in spectacular fashion.As he chases these intersecting storylines around the globe, Faux is driven by a nagging question: Is it all just a global confidence game of unprecedented proportions? In El Salvador, he finds a country reeling from the authoritarian presidents decision to gamble its treasury on Bitcoin. A spam text message leads him to a crypto-fueled human-trafficking ring in Cambodia. In Lugano, Switzerland, he chases down the reclusive former plastic surgeon who runs Tether, and, in the Bahamas, Faux takes readers inside the glittering sadness, lies and delusion of SBFs luxury loft in the days after FTXs implosion.Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Faux the title "our great poet of crime" (Matt Levine), Number Go Up is a riveting account of the biggest financial mania the world has ever seen....(*_*)9781399611381_BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED LA TIMES FINANCIAL TIMES WASHINGTON POST GLOBE AND MAILUSED IN EVIDENCE IN THE TRIAL OF SAM BANKMAN-FRIEDIn 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment funds are buying it. Politicians endorse it. TV ads hail it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knows how it works - who cares when everyone is getting rich? But financial crime reporter Zeke Faux cares: even in fraud, there are standards.In the Bahamas, schlubby billionaire wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried tells him how he will use his fortune to save the world. In Cambodia, a spam text unearths a horrifying slavery ring fuelled by crypto. Faux buys a 20,000 cartoon of a mutant ape to gain access to a festival headlined by Snoop Dogg, and talks his way onto the yacht of a riddling crypto founder/former child actor (The Mighty Ducks, 1992) who was among the first to see the power of imaginary treasure. In search of an elusive cash reserve at the foundation of the whole system, the incredulous Faux finds himself crossing three continents, as well as the boundaries of law, taste and economic rationality. Shocking and uproarious, Number Go Up is the essential chronicle of a 3 trillion delusion, the greatest bubble in history....9781399611381_Orionaudiolibro_91a80230-54e3-3800-b9f2-b74b2f9d6a4e_9781399611381;9781399611381_9781399611381Zeke FauxInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2023-09-12T00:00:00+00:00Orion