2023-05-22
Michael Lewis, the best-selling
author of The Big Short and Money Ball, has revealed that he began to write a
book called Going Infinite, it tells story of Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of
FTX. The book is about to complete soon.
Lewis has named the book “Going
Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon”. He began to write the book in
late 2021 after a friend of Lewis introduced him to Sam.
At the Bitcoin 2023 conference in
Miami on May 19, Lewis did not reveal a release date for the book. But it is
said that it will come during Sam's trial which will happen around this coming
October.
Lewis said at the seminar that
this book will be written in a fiction-like storytelling style, for those who
don't know crypto or don't know Sam. Lewis concluded at the event that he holds
a non-withdrawable amount of Bitcoin on the FTX platform, like any other
investors.
If you search for the book Going
Infinite on the Amazon.com website, you will find the same information that the
book is expected to launch on October 3.
Previously, Lewis had revealed
that the book was near completion shortly before FTX went bankrupt. He have to
change contents in the book because FTX went bankrupt.
During the writing of the book,
“Going Infinite”. Sam had given Lewis permission to follow his daily life for
over 2 years, even when the time Sam was arrested.
W. W. Norton & Company on Instagram: “New from Michael Lewis, GOING INFINITE, publishing 10.3.23.