{"id":26360,"date":"2024-02-18T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=26360"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:14:26","slug":"foreign-policy-the-crypto-con-years-arent-over-yet-reviews-of-michael-lewis-zeke-faux-and-peter-howson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2024\/02\/18\/foreign-policy-the-crypto-con-years-arent-over-yet-reviews-of-michael-lewis-zeke-faux-and-peter-howson\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy: The Crypto Con Years Aren\u2019t Over Yet \u2014 reviews of Michael Lewis, Zeke Faux and Peter Howson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just out in Foreign Policy is my review of three of the crop of 2023 \u2014 Michael Lewis&#8217;\u00a0<em>Going Infinite<\/em>, Zeke Faux&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Number Go Up<\/em> and Peter Howson&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Let Them Eat Crypto<\/em>. [<em><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2024\/02\/18\/crypto-ftx-bitcoin-bubble-fraud\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a>, paywalled<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>This was written over November and delivered to Foreign Policy in early December. But the paper&#8217;s been\u00a0<em>a little busy<\/em> with the war in Gaza and so forth. Thankfully it&#8217;s still applicable.<\/p>\n<p>($5-and-up patrons got to read the draft version two months ago. The bit about how John Jay Ray turned out right about everything got cut for space, sadly.)<\/p>\n<p>I was also going to do Ben Mackenzie and Jacob Silverman&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Easy Money<\/em> \u2014 but that already got a great Foreign Policy review in November! From the American Enterprise Institute, no less. And I was already coming up to 3,000 words. [<i><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2023\/11\/18\/why-did-americas-elite-keep-falling-for-crypto-frauds\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a>, 2023, paywalled<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2024\/02\/18\/foreign-policy-the-crypto-con-years-arent-over-yet-reviews-of-michael-lewis-zeke-faux-and-peter-howson\/sbf-bitcoin-fp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26363\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26363\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sbf-bitcoin-fp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sbf-bitcoin-fp.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sbf-bitcoin-fp-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sbf-bitcoin-fp-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><em>At least it&#8217;s a change from just renders of gold bitcoins.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the crop of 2023 \u2014 Michael Lewis\u2019 Going Infinite, Zeke Faux\u2019s Number Go Up and Peter Howson\u2019s Let Them Eat Crypto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[152,1150,3512,3239,3419],"class_list":["post-26360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-book","tag-foreign-policy","tag-michael-lewis","tag-pete-howson","tag-zeke-faux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sbf-bitcoin-fp.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26360"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26372,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360\/revisions\/26372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}