Number Go Up: Finally, a great book on crypto
The problem with writing about cryptocurrency is that it’s complex. It’s economics meets cryptography, meets memes, meets extreme political ideologies, meets gambling, meets tech bros. And it’s genuinely difficult to parse one of these concepts without inevitably running into another and ultimately ending up in a mess and saying pretty much nothing at all. Which is why Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up is not only a breath of fresh air but quite possibly the best book ever written about the cryptocurrency industry. Cryptocurrency vs the cryptocurrency industry Crypto advocates may well argue that Number Go Up doesn’t necessarily go into detail about how Bitcoin and Ethereum work, how smart contracts are deployed, and why Crypto currency can change finance. And they may be right. But that’s not the point of the Book . Number Go Up is investigative journalism meets non-fiction and the goal isn’t to espouse the benefits and issues of specific protocols, but instead to examine under a mic...