“Each represented an ownership stake in the future of art, the thinking went, or a DeFi investment that would revolutionize the world of finance. People paid millions of perfectly good dollars to add lines to crypto spreadsheets, to record that they owned a stash of Dogecoins, or a rare Bored Ape. By manipulating sheets like these, Sam Bankman-Fried had made himself into one of the world's richest men.” ValueCryptocurrency Book:Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall Source: Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall