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Must read for crypto proponents and opponents both. This book is not just about2020-21. It’s more like 2017-2023. You’ll get to learn about the darkest side of crypto.

A great expose into the crazy cult-like crypto alternate reality. Quite entertaining, often you are left shaking your head at the stupidity of it all.Modern day version of the South Sea bubble!

Extremely good book to read and own. Very informative as well as gripping. Must read for finance enthusiasts. Kudos to the author.

The media could not be loaded.  I like it

A superb document detailing the insanity of the crypto bubble and the players involved - this will be the definitive history of another speculative bubble like the South Sea or tulip one

It seems the whole crypto world is one large scam... oh wait, maybe Bitcoin not. A fantastic report, a tour-de-force, a tour-of-the-world, about just everything encircling Bitcoin... and Tether. You want to read more!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and found the subject matter fascinating. It is superbly written and researched. I believe it deserves a 5 star rating.

The author has clearly gone to a lot of effort in the writing of this book, travelling all over the world and properly getting into crypto in order to gather the information for the book. All in all, pretty impressive journalism.Unfortunately, the author sets out to investigate any incongruities around the stable coin Tether (USDT), and fails to find any evidence that there is anything wrong with the reserves backing the coin.The author does discover a whole seedy underworld of crime in Cambodia, involving torture and imprisonment, with people being forced to run telephone scams, which is genuinely compelling reading. None of it relates to Tether however, except that the criminal organisations accepted payment in USDT. The author suggests that this makes Tether somehow capricious, but fails to give a compelling reason as to why, or how cash is any better. In fact, according to Coin Telegraph, cash is the most common tool for money laundering, and is harder to trace than crypto.Overall, an interesting read, but fails to get to the bottom of any issues that it looks at, and seems to therefore present a fairly baseless argument.

The irony of this book is that the author set out to prove something and failed. Along the way he partied and made various negative comments about the crypto community and its characters all of which could be equally applied to the somewhat murky world of traditional finance and their characters.