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This week we are going to Dive into the results of a survey I conducted on the future of ai and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype. And since it is not always possible to escape the hype, I also read a book about SBF, but not the one by Michael Lewis. Instead, I chose “Number Go Up: Inside crypto‘s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall” by investigative journalist Zeke Faux, and I’m glad I did. — Ana
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Although I just did, it’s not entirely fair to call Faux’s book “Number Go Up” an “SBF book.” Sure, it has several chapters about FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, and the epilogue is mostly about his fate, which has been playing out in court this week. But it’s also about cryptocurrency in a broader sense, and that’s a good thing.
It’s not that I don’t care to understand SBF’s personality better. I heard a whole podcast series about himand my colleague Jacquelyn Melinek also returns from court every day with Fascinating facts about their behavior. But just as the trial’s first witness was an alleged victim of FTX, I also want to hear from people whose lives have been affected by the rise and fall of cryptocurrencies.
