Books

In "SBF: How The FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy" author Brady Dale tells the story of notorious cryptocurrency founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fall and the rise of decentralized finance. (Brady Dale)
Why Author Brady Dale Is 'Drowning' in Sam Bankman-Fried
Before his business collapsed, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried built one of the cryptocurrency industry's largest exchanges and personal brands by dazzling the media, public and...
In "SBF: How The FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy" author Brady Dale tells the story of notorious cryptocurrency founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fall and the rise of decentralized finance. (Brady Dale)

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Wondering What Web3 Means? Listen to Ethereum's First Marketer
In this chapter excerpted from her first published book "Web3 Marketing," ConsenSys-alum Amanda Cassatt explores how the ideas driving crypto development are put out into the...
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Vitalik Buterin's 'Proof of Stake': The CoinDesk Megareview
What a decade of essays – covering everything from Soulbound tokens to superrational DAOs – says about Ethereum and crypto.
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How the Tech Elite Plans to Escape an 'Apocalypse' of Its Own Making
An excerpt from legendary tech reporter Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires."
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Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 27, 2022
With crypto market sentiment growing increasingly bearish and a look at 10 recommended books to learn more about the story of money and crypto, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is bac...
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How Misinformation on ‘Book Twitter’ Killed a Literary NFT Project
“Realms of Ruin” used the Solana blockchain for a reason. That didn’t stop people from accusing it of ruining the environment.
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Is the Dollar Doomed?
In this excerpt from “The Future of Money,” author Eswar Prasad examines the forces – the rise of bitcoin and stablecoins and foreign currency competition – threatening the do...
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Central Banks vs. Private Currencies: ‘The Future of Money’ With Economist Eswar Prasad
Economist Eswar Prasad’s latest book is an ambitious overview of the changing nature of money.
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