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Available Now — April 8, 2026
★★★★★ #1 in Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies on Amazon

Freedom of Money —
The Inside Story of Binance
and Changpeng Zhao

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of Binance, writes the complete story — from poverty in China to building the world's largest crypto exchange, and the four months he spent in a U.S. federal prison cell where he wrote this book.

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300M
Binance Users Worldwide
$4.3B
DOJ Settlement
366
Pages — Zero Filler
Why This Matters

From poverty in China
to the world's largest
crypto empire — and prison.

Changpeng Zhao grew up with a dirt floor and no running water in rural China. He immigrated to Canada as a teenager, worked his way through McGill University, and built Binance from nothing in 2017 — becoming the largest crypto exchange on earth in under 180 days.

Then the U.S. DOJ came. Not for fraud. Not for theft. A single Bank Secrecy Act compliance violation. His lawyers said nobody had ever gone to prison for this. He flew to the U.S. anyway and surrendered himself.

This is not just a crypto story. It's a story about who controls money — and what happens when you challenge the global financial order.

"I may sign your copy one day if you are an early buyer."

— Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Founder of Binance
What You'll Learn

The Binance story — complete and unfiltered.

Who Should Read This

You'll finish it in a weekend. You'll think about it for months.

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Crypto investors & holders

Understand the real regulatory risk, what the DOJ case actually means, and what CZ learned about protecting users when the system turns against you.

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Entrepreneurs & startup founders

CZ scaled Binance from nothing to 300 million users in under 3 years. This is his full playbook — the decisions, the mistakes, the philosophy.

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Finance & legal professionals

The $4.3B DOJ settlement is one of the largest in U.S. corporate history. Read the inside account of how it happened and what it means for crypto regulation.

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Business readers & journalists

The FTX collapse, Sam Bankman-Fried, the SEC battles — CZ was at the center of all of it. This is the primary source no journalist could access.

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Anyone interested in financial freedom

1.4 billion people have no access to basic banking. CZ's mission — and why he's willing to go to prison for it — is one of the most important stories in global finance.

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Students of business & tech history

Binance's rise is a once-in-a-generation story. From a dirt floor in China to a $100 billion company in 7 years. Required reading for anyone studying how companies scale.

Social Proof

#1 Bestseller. The crypto world is reading it.

1,239+ readers already waiting for this book
★★★★★

"The most honest account of what actually happened with Binance and the DOJ. If you're in crypto or finance, this is required reading."

— Verified Amazon reviewer
★★★★★

"Unfiltered, raw, and surprisingly moving. CZ doesn't dodge a single hard question. I finished it in two sittings."

— Verified Amazon reviewer
★★★★★

"Written in a prison cell and it shows — in the best way. This is the real Binance story that no journalist could write."

— Verified Amazon reviewer
What You Get

Real events. Real insights. No fluff.

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Based on Real Events

Every event in this book is documented and verifiable. The DOJ case, the FTX collapse, the SEC scrutiny — CZ was inside all of it.

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100% Royalties to Charity

CZ receives zero personal income from this book. Every author royalty is donated to charitable causes. Publicly pledged.

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366 pages · Written during a U.S. federal prison sentence · The only complete insider account of Binance · 100% to charity

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Available Now — April 8, 2026

The Binance story.
Complete. Unfiltered.

366 pages written during a U.S. federal prison sentence. From poverty in China to building a $100B empire — and the DOJ case that changed crypto forever.

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Kindle & Print  ·  366 pages  ·  ISBN 979-8995069621
Publisher: Freedom of Money Foundation  ·  Released April 8, 2026