Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption infohash: 42E19B33DA9159E932278D1DF50AB77C50606FAC epub infohash: 0138A1C043C92A0FCED14131BAB0CFF6F5344464 mp3 Ben Mezrich’s 2009 best seller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account offounding - 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- and the first great audiobook 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 realise ‘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 theboardroom, Bitcoin Billionaires will take us on a wild and surprising ride while illuminating a tantalising 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.