Book notes: Easy money, cryptocurrency, casino capitalism, and the golden age of fraud, Ben McKenzie with Jacob Silverman
Casts light on how shady crypto characters defraud consumers but offers little on how to control them
Ben McKenzie with Jacob Silverman, Easy money, cryptocurrency, casino capitalism, and the golden age of fraud, Abrams Press, July 2023, 320 pages
Ben McKenzie, an actor, started looking at the crypto world during the Covid-19 pandemic while he was confined to his home. Like many others, he flirted with the idea of easy money by investing in bitcoins or a high-paying crypto account. Other people seemed to be making a fast buck, so why shouldn’t he? Fortunately for him, having looked at bitcoin and
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Book notes: Going infinite: the rise and fall of a new tycoon, by Michael Lewis
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