Bitcoin Billionaires

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“Narrating with delicate pitch and phrasing variations, Will Damron connects with each little bit of the drama and interpersonal stress that pervade this story. His pleasing voice and facility with dialogue are enormously pleasing…. Damron’s very good efficiency provides to the thrill and makes this charming listening.” (AudioFile Journal, Earphones Award winner)

From Ben Mezrich, the New York Instances best-selling creator of The Unintended Billionaires and Bringing Down the Home, comes Bitcoin Billionaires – the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ large wager on cryptocurrency and its dazzling pay-off.

Ben Mezrich’s 2009 greatest vendor, The Unintended Billionaires, is the definitive account of Fb’s founding and the premise for the Academy Award-winning movie The Social Community. Two of the story’s iconic characters are Harvard college students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: equivalent twins, Olympic rowers, and foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers’ redemption and revenge within the wake of their epic authorized battle with Fb.

Planning to start out careers as enterprise capitalists, the brothers shortly uncover that nobody will take their cash after their struggle with Zuckerberg. Whereas nursing their wounds in Ibiza, they unintentionally run into an eccentric character who tells them a couple of brand-new concept: cryptocurrency. Immersing themselves in what’s then an obscure and typically sinister world, they start to comprehend “crypto” is, in their very own phrases, “both the subsequent large factor or complete bulls–t.” There’s nothing left to do however make a wager.

From the Silk Street to the halls of the Securities and Trade Fee, Bitcoin Billionaires will take us on a wild and shocking trip whereas illuminating a tantalizing financial future. On November 26, 2017, the Winklevoss brothers grew to become the primary bitcoin billionaires. Right here’s the story of how they acquired there – as solely Ben Mezrich may inform it.