Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden
Age of Fraud Hardcover – Print, 15 July 2023
English
edition by Ben McKenzie (Author), Jacob
Silverman (Author)
From a
famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of
cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on course for a
spectacular crash.
At the
height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Gotham) was the perfect
mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck at home with some cash in his pocket,
worried about his family, armed with only the vague notion that people were
making heaps of money on something he - despite a degree in economics - didn't
entirely understand. Lured in by the promise of taking power from banks,
possibly improving democracy, and sure, a touch of FOMO, McKenzie dove deep
into blockchain, Bitcoin, and the various other coins and exchanges on which
they are traded.
But after
scratching the surface, he had to ask, "Am I crazy, or is this all a total
scam?" In Easy Money, McKenzie enlists the help of journalist Jonathan
Silverman for a caper and exposé that points in shock to the climactic final
days of cryptocurrency now upon us. Weaving together stories of average traders
and victims, colorful crypto "visionaries," Hollywood's biggest true
believers, anti-crypto whistleblowers, and government agents searching for
solutions at the precipice of a major crash, Easy Money is an on-the-ground
look at a perfect storm of 2008 Housing Bubble-level irresponsibility and
criminal fraud potentially ten times more devastating than Bernie Madoff.
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