一探這場令人目眩神迷的加密貨幣幻夢，看SBF等人如何將虛擬貨幣，化為數兆的真金白銀，又是什麼讓他們跌落神壇……
 
　　2021年加密貨幣開始成為投資主流，幾乎所有的大型投資基金都在瘋狂買入，名人們紛紛為其背書，媒體們也將加密貨幣追捧為金錢的未來形式。即便大多數人根本不清楚加密貨幣運作原理，甚至也根本不知道這究竟是個什麼東西，但管它是「狗狗幣」還是「柴犬幣」，這些加密貨幣名字再怪，難道不是只要有錢賺就好？
 
　　資深財金記者Zeke Faux注意到這股加密貨幣熱潮時，腦中瞬間浮現一個問題：這一切是否根本是場規模空前的信任遊戲？他出於好奇心展開的調查，帶他深入了解這個新的金融體系，並接觸到FTX交易平台破產案的主角，一個其貌不揚的29歲年輕人Sam Bankman-Fried(簡稱SBF)，以及更多幣圈騙局的詐欺者、空想家和一夕翻身的富豪們。
 
　　Faux一路循線追查到SBF擁有奢華別墅的巴哈馬──也就是他宣稱自己要用加密貨幣拯救世界的地方，設法登上了一艘圈內人士的遊艇，並透過購買價值2萬美金的NFT，獲得參加「ApeFest」的機會；當他來到薩爾瓦多，他看到了國家將資產作為賭注，大舉投資比特幣的下場；地球另一頭，位於亞洲的菲律賓，則有一群人相信一款類寶可夢手遊，能讓自己脫貧。更驚人的是，Faux追蹤一則詐騙簡訊來到柬埔寨，意外揭露由加密貨幣推動的人口販賣集團犯行……。
 
　　這部無比精彩、令人戰慄的報導作品，記錄下讓人咋舌的情節與野心，深入挖掘了加密貨幣背後的層層暗影，並帶讀者見證那些幻影破滅的時刻。(文/博客來編譯)
The ＂rollicking＂ (The Economist), ＂masterfully written＂ (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars--hailed by Ezra Klein in The New York Times as one of the ＂Books That Explain Where We Are＂FINALIST: the Edgar Award (Fact Crime), the Macavity Award (Nonfiction), the Porchlight Business Book Award - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times DealBook, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Irish Examiner, Morningstar, The Verge, WiredIn 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked--but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named ＂digital asset＂? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? What started as curiosity--with a dash of FOMO--would morph into a two-year, globe-spanning quest to understand the wizards behind the world’s new financial machinery. Faux’s investigation would lead him to a schlubby, frizzy-haired twenty-nine-year-old named Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF for short) and a host of other crypto scammers, utopians, and overnight billionaires. Faux follows the trail to a luxury resort in the Bahamas, where SBF boldly declares that he will use his crypto fortune to save the world. Faux talks his way onto the yacht of a former child actor turned crypto impresario and gains access to ＂ApeFest,＂ an elite party headlined by Snoop Dogg, by purchasing a ＄20,000 image of a cartoon monkey. In El Salvador, Faux learns what happens when a country wagers its treasury on Bitcoin, and in the Philippines, he stumbles upon a Pokémon knockoff mobile game touted by boosters as a cure for poverty. And in an astonishing development, a spam text leads Faux to Cambodia, where he uncovers a crypto-powered human-trafficking ring. When the bubble suddenly bursts in 2022, Faux brings readers inside SBF’s penthouse as the fallen crypto king faces his imminent arrest. Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Zeke Faux the accolade ＂our great poet of crime＂ (Money Stuff columnist Matt Levine), Number Go Up is the essential chronicle, by turns harrowing and uproarious, of a ＄3 trillion financial delusion.
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