A great read about the idiocy and tragedy that is the world of cryptocurrencies and defi. Faux is at his funniest when letting various personalities from the crypto and NFT manias speak for themselves, but he also manages to convey, occasionally with quiet horror, the real-world harms that these clowns have unleashed. He's also good at clarifying that these harms aren't the result of any flashy new distruptive tech, but simply old-fashioned confidence schemes and fraud. The only innovation is making these crimes far more difficult to track and prosecute. Given the timing of the book, Faux got a lot of press for his coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of FTX and Almeda Research, but throughout the book and certainly in its final pages, his frustration with the genuine bad actors (who continue to escape accountability) is palpable: the real villian of the story isn't SBF; it's Giancarlo Devasini.