Bitcoin Billionaires
A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
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Bitcoin Billionaires
Narrated by:
Lance C Fuller
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Narrated by:
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Lance C Fuller
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Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding - and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and legal foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers' redemption and revenge in the wake of their epic legal battle with Facebook - and the first great book from the world of bitcoin.
Planning to start careers as venture capitalists, the brothers quickly discover that no one will take their money for fear of alienating Zuckerberg. While nursing their wounds in Ibiza, they accidentally run into a shady character who tells them about a brand new idea: cryptocurrency. Immersing themselves in what is then an obscure and sometimes sinister world, they begin to realize "crypto" is, in their own words, "either the next big thing or total bulls--t." There's nothing left to do but make a bet.
From the Silk Road to the halls of the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Facebook boardroom, Bitcoin Billionaires will take us on a wild and surprising ride while illuminating a tantalizing economic future. On November 26th, 2017, the Winklevoss brothers became the first bitcoin billionaires. Here's the story of how they got there - as only Ben Mezrich could tell it.©2019 Ben Mezrich
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Critic reviews
Bitcoin Billionaires takes us right inside the Winklevoss brothers' wild chase for redemption through a global maze of big money and backroom deals. Ben Mezrich delivers a tense, propulsive story of ambition and success
The book is written with a slick beauty . . . As an introduction to the rise of cryptocurrencies and the modern tech world generally, it is as painless and novelistic as could be imagined
A page turner. Sensibly, Mezrich opts to focus on action. He makes sense of bleeding-but-baffling-edge technology by following the human accessories: early-adopters, a rat pack of weed-smoking coders, dark-web pirates, libertarian philosophers and boy-wonder investors who wouldn't feel out of place in a Thomas Pynchon novel - and like Pynchon, the thrill is in a wild chase for answers to a mystery that the layperson can only grope at
An easily digested cryptocurrency primer
Gripping . . . Ben Mezrich is a gifted writer who could make a PTA meeting dramatic and exciting
Well written from the perspectives of the Winklevoss twins & their investment into one of the very first bitcoin exchanges.
Tells the tale of the main characters in bitcoins early years and what propelled it to become as mainstream as it is today.
How accurate the story is something only a handful of people can confirm but it brings a good understanding of what occurred during those early years.
I would most certainly reccomend it to anyone interested in the subject
Narration was fantastic, very easy to follow down the rabbit hole.
Reccomended for those interested in bitcoin
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Brilliant and enlightenment story
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An absolute must read for every crypto enthusiast
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The narration is ok, but I have no idea why they thought doing accents (badly) for figures across the world would be good idea?
A story of an authors love affair for the Winkevii
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Excellent
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