Alex's Reviews > Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

If you’re already aware of cryptocurrencies being not much more than get-rich-quick schemes and the go-to currencies for criminals, there’s not much for you in this book other than the author talking about himself for 300 pages. Kudos to him for his dogged worldwide reporting, but not much comes of it. Even when he has the opportunity to tell interesting stories of effected victims (eg he meets farmers in El Salvador whose land is being taken to build Bitcoin City), he doesn’t do so and continues to make the story about himself (eg the only thing we learn about the aforementioned farmers is that he met them).