Bitcoin Billionaires
A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich
4/5
Flatiron Books 320 pages May 21, 2019
In November of 2008, a mysterious paper appeared online detailing a new form of currency that promised to revolutionize the way we think about money. After their epic legal battle with Facebook, the Winklevoss twins bet on Bitcoin — and won big. Mezrich brings his trademark cinematic storytelling to the rise of bitcoin.
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Mezrich wrote The Accidental Billionaires, which became The Social Network. This is the sequel, basically — the same Winklevoss twins, now turning their Facebook settlement into the largest Bitcoin holding outside the FBI's seized coins. The pacing is breathless, the dialogue is reconstructed, and the whole thing reads like a movie treatment, which it probably is. Don't read this for accuracy — read it for the vibes. The early Bitcoin scene was as wild as Mezrich makes it sound, and his portrait of the twins as redemption-seeking outsiders is genuinely sympathetic. Four worms. Pair with Digital Gold for the journalist's version of the same era.
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