Stealing The Future, 9781917516082
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From cuddly philanthropy to crypto crime, a dangerous ideology exposed.
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Stealing The Future

sam bankman-fried and the tech utopians

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    300 pages

  • Release Date

    15 December 2025

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Summary

Stealing the Future: The FTX Conspiracy Unveiled

Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX fraud with the detail and nuance of a financial fraud expert and cryptocurrency insider - but unlike any book before it, it also traces the ideas that enabled the crime.

“Effective Altruism” and related tendencies, such as longtermism and transhumanism, remain dangerously influen…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781917516082
ISBN-10:1917516088
Author:David Morris
Publisher:Watkins Media Limited
Imprint:Repeater Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:300
Release Date:15 December 2025
Weight:369g
Dimensions:216mm x 135mm
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Critics Review

“Stealing the Future nails Sam Bankman-Fried for what he truly is: an overly-confident, ineffective and amoral narcissist.”– Paul Dylan-Ennis“Sam Bankman-Fried was Bernie Madoff cosplaying as Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. Too many people who should have known better fell for his act, enabling one of the largest financial frauds in American history. The inimitable David Z. Morris offers a high-minded take on this tragic farce, exploring the wide-eyed philosophies that SBF used (and perhaps twisted) to rationalize his destructive behavior.”– Marc Hochstein

About The Author

David Morris

David Z. Morris is one of the most respected and longstanding journalists covering cryptocurrency. He was part of the team at CoinDesk that exposed and brought down Sam Bankman-Fried. As a staff writer at Fortune he covered Tesla and a variety of tech firms, and has written about technology for The Atlantic, Slate, and Aeon.

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