Number Go Up
Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 17 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It boils down to, how would you like to keep your money in like the ad blocker in your |
| 0:07.6 | browser? |
| 0:08.6 | Like one of those little icons like next to the URL. |
| 0:12.6 | And like if you lose the password it's gone forever and everyone's telling me that you're |
| 0:17.7 | going to get it stolen. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Mary Long and that's Seek Fox, investigative reporter for Bloomberg and the author of the |
| 0:34.5 | new book, Number Go Up, Inside Crypto's Wildrise and Staggering Fall. |
| 0:39.6 | We drove alert caught up with Fox to talk about how FOMO hit crypto speculators, the problems |
| 0:44.3 | of actually using crypto. |
| 0:46.3 | What Jimmy Fallon said to Zeke about his promotion of NFTs and Zeke's time hanging out with |
| 0:50.9 | none other than Sam Vancouver Freed. |
| 1:10.6 | This book, I think I read it faster than I've read any business book I've read in a long |
| 1:16.2 | time. |
| 1:17.2 | It feels like a beetroot a bit. |
| 1:19.0 | It's got, you know, it starts with some splashy parties. |
| 1:21.8 | You've got definitely some wild characters. |
| 1:24.6 | What is it about crypto that you have found so fascinating to cover? |
| 1:27.7 | I know you've been covering it for a while. |
| 1:29.8 | I feel like I got really lucky because I, since I was a teenager, I always loved these |
| 1:34.7 | like adventure stories. |
| 1:35.7 | I loved books by like John Crackauer, Ben Mezrich who did the MIT Blackjack story, but |
| 1:43.1 | I never thought that I had found a story like good enough that I should write a book. |
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