easily the weakest of the three crypto collapse books i read during my binge, mainly because it contained by far the least original content and reporting. before he started research for the book, ben mckenzie had already made a name for himself as an outspoken critic of crypto on twitter, which naturally made the community highly suspicious of him. not even the fact that mckenzie is a fairly-famous tv actor was enough to salvage the situation, the crypto community’s strong sensitivity to criticism seems to have overpowered their usual hunger for the smallest scraps of celebrity attention and recognition. the best mckenzie is able to do is barely eke out an uncomfortable hour-long interview with sam bankman-fried, who was well-known for taking interviews from pretty much anybody and everybody. mckenzie makes up for the lack of original content/reporting by filling the book with a lot of in-depth explanations about how various crypto rackets work which i suppose could serve as a good primer to the uninitiated, but i was already familiar with most of it so it was kind of a slog.