Zeke Faux's Crypto Adventures and His Relationship With Former FTX CEO SBF - Ep. 545

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, Business News, News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Zeke Faux, author of 'Number Go Up,' shares his findings after making a deep dive into the world of crypto. From skepticism to a full-blown investigation, Faux recounts his journey that led him to the heart of crypto, meeting some of the most eccentric characters in the industry. As a Bloomberg investigative reporter, Faux brings a critical eye to the crypto sphere, unearthing the bizarre, the risky, and the downright astonishing facets of what the crypto community calls a financial revolution. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights: what the book 'Number Go Up' is about Zeke's background as an investigative reporter for Bloomberg whether Zeke is skeptical about crypto why Zeke thought it was a big deal to investigate Tether, the issuer of USDT whether he had a conclusion on the fact that he couldn't find anything big about Tether why Zeke says that Sam Bankman-Fried had a sloppy approach to risk management why Zeke believes that SBF did not give so much money to charity even though he's an effective altruist how projects like STEPN and Axie Infinity are 'clearly not the future of finance,' according to Zeke how SBF had such an open relationship with the media that helped him when the FTX collapse happened what Zeke found out investigating pig butchering scams in Cambodia how Zeke’s attempt to buy a Mutant Ape to get into an Ape Fest in New York City taught him about crypto’s bad user experience Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com Arbitrum Foundation Toku LayerZero Guest: Zeke Faux, author of ‘Number Go Up’ Bloomberg: 11 Hours With Sam Bankman-Fried: Inside the Bahamian Penthouse After FTX’s Fall Links Tether Unchained: Is Tether a Fraud? Its Bank Says It's Not Tether, the Multibillion-Dollar Stablecoin at the Heart of the Crypto Ecosystem Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Unchained: Sam Bankman-Fried on How to Prevent the Next Terra and 3AC SBF Behind Bars: Why Revoked Bail Is a Big Deal for Crypto’s Biggest Trial Pig butchering scams Unchained: How This Prosecutor Is Spearheading the Fight Against Crypto ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams Crypto in developing countries Bitcoin in El Salvador: Why Would Cypherpunks Support Government-Mandated Bitcoin Adoption? Anita Posch on Why ‘Bitcoin Is a Tool for Freedom’ – Especially in Africa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everywhere I went in crypto land, I always thought people would say like basically everybody
0:05.5	bought into this number go up philosophy.
0:08.1	People try to pretend that they have some other plan for their business, and time and time
0:12.1	again, I would find that their business plan boiled down to number go up.
0:17.3	And that's what Alameda's business plan was.
0:20.3	Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no-hive resource for all things crypto.
0:27.6	I'm your host, Laura Shin.
0:29.6	Author of the Cryptopians.
0:31.8	I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor of Forbes was the first
0:36.2	major media porter to cover cryptocurrency full time.
0:39.4	This is the September 19th, 2023 episode of Unchained.
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