DIARY OF A
PONZI SCHEME
By Chris Skinner
This is the story of Clinton (Clint) Davidson, a financially struggling man in London who decides to exploit his wealthy network of friends and family by creating a fake investment vehicle called The Token Fund. He builds a Ponzi scheme by leveraging the trust of his social connections, and the hype around digital assets like cryptocurrencies, tokenisation, and blockchain.
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GREED BUILDS IT.
LIES KEEP IT ALIVE.
A FAKE FORTUNE. A REAL SCANDAL.
A GAME THAT DESTROYS EVERYONE.
What begins as ambition slowly mutates into deception in this razor-sharp financial thriller from Chris Skinner.
Clinton Davidson is brilliant, charismatic, and dangerously convincing. He understands one thing better than anyone around him: people want to believe. They want easy wealth, exclusive access, insider opportunities, and the thrill of being early to the next financial revolution. Clint gives them exactly that.
Wrapped in the seductive language of cryptocurrency, blockchain innovation, elite finance, and digital assets, his investment empire grows at terrifying speed. Billionaires, politicians, celebrities, royalty, venture capitalists, and desperate dreamers all circle the same illusion, each convinced they are too intelligent to be fooled.
At the center of it all is Becca Hawkins, whose love for Clint blinds her to the cracks forming beneath the surface. As money floods in and the web of lies expands, relationships become transactions, loyalty becomes leverage, and trust becomes the most valuable currency of all.
But every Ponzi scheme eventually reaches the same inevitable moment: the point where reality can no longer support the fantasy.
Blending satire, finance, technology, dark humour, romance and psychological tension, Diary of a Ponzi Scheme delivers a clever, unsettling, and sharply contemporary novel where every conversation is a negotiation, every relationship hides another agenda and every lie demands a larger one to survive.
Because the most dangerous scams are never built on money alone. They are built on belief.
Endorsements
A wonderful mixture of fact, fiction and fintech
Jorg Moony
star of Cruise 14
This is a token of a book that is like a gift
Roger Rammy
UK Minister
Diary of a Ponzi Scheme is essential reading for anyone involved in a Ponzi
Dirk Boronsky
founder of Rugger
Whatever you do, do NOT buy this book
Prince Frederick
About Chris Skinner
Chris Skinner is known as one of the most influential people in technology and an independent commentator on the financial markets and fintech through his blog, thefinanser.com. He has written eighteen books about finance and technology, with bestselling books including the series Digital Bank, Digital Human, Doing Digital and Digital for Good.
He has been recognised as one of the most influential figures in finance, fintech, technology and payments, receiving a lifetime achievement award from the UK payments association in 2023. This is why he has been an advisor to the United Nations, the White House, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, as well as governments and firms across the world.
Chris is also a successful children’s author with the five-book series about Captain Cake and the Candy Crew.