Welcome to another bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

It's been Book Month, folks, you know that,

and we've got another book to talk to you about, but this is a book that is a little

closer to our tech timeline than the last one, last two actually, and also, I would say a closer friend of the show to talk about

their book we're gonna talk to Brady Dale today who you've heard him on the show many

many times giving us a low down on

crypto the book that he came out with was it this week Brady last week last week

last week is SBF how the FTX bankruptcy unwound crypto's very bad good guy.

Brady welcome.

Thank you.

Let's start just because I like the story because it reflects well on this show, but can you tell me how this book came about?

Yes, I would love to tell you that story. So the way the book came about is when the FTX unwinding happened,

when the bankruptcy happened,

Brian and Chris and I, Chris Messina,

have a little Twitter thread that we sort of activate every now and then and I can't

remember which of you guys hopped into it first. I think I might have been Chris but was just like this is crazy right and I and I cut and pay something I had written to

my axios colleague Courtney Brown in there where it was it was you know it was just in

the book what it was just sort of like launch a hedge fund, launch an exchange, create a giant

token for that exchange that's worth piles of money, bet a bunch of money against

the token and have it go to zero, you know,

deer in headlights emoji. And it was a little more succinct than that, but

you liked it and was like, can I read this on the air? And I was like,

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