"Cryptomania"s Insane Release Week

Welcome to Cryptomania, the newsletter, a preview companion to my book with the same title, which arrived August 6. The book traces the pandemic-era rise and fall of cryptocurrency, largely unfolding over 20 short months between March 2021 and November 2022. Order Cryptomania here.

I’ve been meaning to write this newsletter for five days now, but kept getting carried away. The support for Cryptomania in its first week in the world has been overwhelming. Some highlights:

-Packing Yu & Me Books to the brim for my release event moderated by Slate’s Nitish Pahwa

-Appearing on Bradley Tusk’s podcast Firewall, The Michael Shermer Show, NPR Marketplace, Bloomberg TV, and This Week in Tech

-Getting a great review from Molly Jane Zuckerman at Blockworks, who wrote:

Chow’s in-depth research into the African NFT and crypto scene centers the book in something real and tangible and horribly hypocritical. Reading about Nigerian artist Owo Anietie’s somewhat successful AfroDroids NFT launch was eye-opening. This book’s take on what happened to the African NFT scene when FTX imploded did more to humanize the FTX fallout than any other Bankman-Fried book I’ve read thus far.

Next up: I head back to DC for an event at Politics and Prose, The Wharf moderated by Planet Money’s Jeff Guo.

Thank you for all your support! And please message me with any questions about the book!