Ben Mezrich

Bitcoin Billionaires (eBook, ePUB)

A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires - the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408711880
• Artikelnr.: 56782238

Autorenporträt

Ben Mezrich is the internationally bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the movie The Social Network; The Ugly Americans; Busting Vegas; Rigged and Bringing Down the House, which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Ben Mezrich lives in Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

ACT ONE

1. Into the Tiger's Cage
2. Dead in the Water
3. Damaged Goods
4. In The Beginning There Was Foam
5. The Basement
6. Finding Love In A Hopeless Place
7. August 30, 2012
8. Charlie
9. Stepford, Connecticut
10. Buyer's Market
11. Reverse Heist

ACT TWO

12. The Spark
13. Bayfront Park, Downtown Miami
14. On the Road Again
15. In the Air
16. King of Bitcoin
17. The Morning After
18. Bright Lights
19. This Side of Paradise
20. The United Front
21. Behind the Door, May 16, 2013
22. Bitcoin 2013
23. Going Mainstream

ACT THREE

24. A Pirate's Tale
25. The Day After
26. The Fall
27, Across Town
28. Men of Harvard
29. Judgment Day
30. Launched
31 From Dumas to Balzac

EPILOGUE: Where Are They Now...?

Acknowledgements
Bibliography

Rezensionen

"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." - Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and The Dante Chamber

"Mezrich is a talented storyteller...Bitcoin Billionaires offer(s) memorable glimpses inside the messy world of a start-up currency." - The New York Times

"(Bitcoin Billionaires) redeems the Winklevii, sure, but the story has all the trappings of a classic adventure: wronged underdogs, party scenes, partners who flip, and, of course, a few villains." - Vanity Fair

"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" - Guardian

"Ben Mezrich is a gifted writer who could make a PTA meeting dramatic and exciting." - The Times