I’ve followed crypto casually for a few years, having never personally “invested” more than a bit of play money into it, but more interested in the environment around it.
Before reading Michael Lewis’ new book on former crypto kind SbF, “Going Infinite”, I had seen many reviews of this book calling it a “puff piece” that downplays the criminality of what he did.
Having just finished the book – I can’t disagree more. This book wasn’t written to admonish the subject for their crimes, but rather to try to give the reader an idea of how SBF justified his actions to himself, by reducing every decision he made to a statistical probability and disregarding the potential consequences if he felt the risk was worth it.
I found it a very interesting deep-dive into a story that many of us know on the surface level, from someone who was able to collect 1st and 2nd hand stories from those involved. I find the author’s descriptions of SBF to be very matter-of-fact – he doesn’t spend time ham-fisting the crimes of SBF into his retelling, rather laying out the details and allowing readers to draw their conclusions. I also don’t think in the “downfall” part of the book he paints a particularly rosy picture of SBF’s actions. The book reviews I read prior to reading the book led me to expect a “defense” of SBF by ML but I didn’t get this at all.
Curious for the thoughts of anyone else who have read the book.
by Effective_Assistant1