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

This is the book that anyone who deals with scam victims needs to read to understand how the global tsunami of internet scamming works — griftocurrency is not just a harmless table top game played by libertarian, it’s an entire ecosystem built to facilitate exploitation of vulnerable people by predators, who are responding exactly as you would expect: by scamming people out of their savings and by enslaving vulnerable people in poor countries and forcing them to prey on people in rich countries, like small boys forced to work as pick-pockets in Victorian England.

The whole point of griftocurrency is to create a parasite money system that lets people who enjoy and depend on the all the global systems offered by the legit market and tax systems (clean water, food systems, etc) profit from scams tax free, while consuming more energy than many nations to do worthless computing games (“mining” griftocurrencies).