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Another day, another crypto fiasco. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon is the latest book by award-winning and bestselling author Michael Lewis. After hits like the Big Short and The Blind Side he comes to us with this latest addition.

Lewis recently published this book just as the trial of the subject of Going Infinite, Sam Bankman-Fried, is facing fraud charges. The now-disgraced young crypto b’naire, who is now faces years in prison following the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX and affiliated hedge fund Alameda, is described in the book as having the demeanor of a child pretending to care when his parents ask him to say hello to their friends.

But beyond the eccentric, nonchalant attitude is a young man who managed to be taken seriously. Even the author himself admits he was “totally sold.”

The book misses what actually went down in FTX and a breakdown of cryptocurrency. If you are looking for a great story, then this book will hit the mark thanks to both the subject matter and Lewis’s skills as a storyteller. But we think it could have been a far more potent read with a more in-depth analysis of what went wrong at FTX or a broad argument about cryptocurrency in general, as one WaPo reviewer put it.

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