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Episode 550: Zeke Faux

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Zeke Faux is an investigative reporter for Bloomberg. His new book is Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall.

“I have a rule of thumb, which is that if somebody did one scam, they probably did another scam. If they did one scam in the past and now they have a new thing, odds are good it’s also a scam. That’s not always true, but that was definitely borne out sometimes in crypto-world.”

Show notes:

  • @ZekeFaux
  • zekefaux.com
  • Faux on Longform
  • Faux’s Bloomberg archive
  • 06:00 “Secret Network Connects Harvard Money to Payday Loans” (Bloomberg • Sept 2014)
  • 08:00 “Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?” (Bloomberg • Oct 2021)
  • 21:00 Matt Levine’s Bloomberg archive
  • 22:00 “‘Don’t You Remember Me?’ The Crypto Hell on the Other Side of a Spam Text” (Bloomberg • Aug 2023)
  • 32:00 “The Rise of FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried, Was a Great Story. Its Implosion Is Even Better.” (Alexandra Alter • New York Times • May 2023)
  • 58:00 The Mastermind (Evan Ratliff • Penguin Random House • 2020)

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