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462 Crypto Billionaire Pardoned In Prison By Trump Just Wrote a Memoir

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 04/12/2026 06:34 EDT

Crypto Billionaire Pardoned In Prison By Trump Just Wrote a Memoir

Forbes estimates he's worth roughly $110 billion, "placing him ahead of Bill Gates."

And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, "has written a memoir..."


It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the world his version of his meteoric crypto rise and fall, and foreshadow his comeback. The book, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users, Resilience, and the Founding of Binance, runs 364 pages, self-published in English and Chinese.... Zhao also r

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