The Bitcoin Saga

Author : Rachna Singh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9388271858
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bitcoin Saga written by Rachna Singh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Bitcoin Saga: A Mixed Montage' is an exciting story about the birth and growth of bitcoin and the blockchain technology underpinning it. The book takes the untutored reader on a thrilling rollercoaster ride through the complexities and myriad facets of cryptocurrencies. The sub-prime crisis of 2008 and the Cypherpunk movement sets the stage for the advent of the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto and the release of the first cache of bitcoins. The narrative takes on a Houdini like magical quality as it unravels the skeins of the Dark Web and the secret of the Silk Road. The story of the Mt Gox heist and Nostradamus like prophecies of bitcoin doom add a generous dollop of intrigue to the crypto story. The cryptocurrency regulatory-tax tales of countries like USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, China, India etc give the narrative an intellectual slant. The bitcoin saga ends on an introspective note. The blockchain technology has enormous power to change the world. Whether it will be a benevolent Titan or a Frankenstein monster, only time can tell.

Author : Alexander Grupp
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781791548896
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bitcoin Saga: Tales from 1001 Blocks: Learn the Unfiltered Truth about Bitcoin and Why It Will Change the Future While Making a Lot written by Alexander Grupp and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★Get the Paperback and recieve the Kindle eBook for FREE!★ Are you interested in investing in Bitcoin? Want to learn how it works? But you aren't sure if this whole Bitcoin thing isn't just a big scam? And you might lose all your investment? Because it has no future anyway? If your answer is YES, then this book is for you. Bitcoin generally has a bad reputation. It's just used by terrorists to move untraceable money, used by shady companies to launder money, it is way too volatile, and it's mostly used by weird IT nerds anyway. So why should you invest your hard-earned money into this? This is a key feature of The Bitcoin Saga(tm). I wrote this book to come clear with all these myths and sagas around Bitcoin. And on top of that I put actionable info into it on how to invest in the cryptocurrency market in a profitable way! This book will arm you with the necessary tools to make money in this space. Simple and easy. This book is designed for beginners! If you already know everything about Bitcoin you should still buy it and give it to friends which don't! ;-) I proudly present The Bitcoin Saga: Tales from 1001 Blocks(tm). It's a very simple, fast and easy to understand guide on how to invest in Bitcoin. You will learn: - The current money. What's wrong with the existing hard cash? Why do we need a new currency? - Tales from 1001 Blocks. Learn the unfiltered truth about all the myths around Bitcoin & Co. Some of them are true and others stem from a magic lamp. - What is Bitcoin? Literally what Bitcoin is. How it works. What the Blockchain is and what it has to do with Bitcoin itself. - Digital crystal ball. We take a look in a crystal ball. How would the future with Bitcoin look like. Can it even be our future and what is possible with it. - Descendants. Bitcoin isn't the only cryptocurrency. There are a lot of other coins with which you can technically make even more money. In this chapter you will learn what the so-called altcoins are. - The poor man's David and Goliath. Traditional banks are fighting against Bitcoin & Co. But why do they care? Why are they afraid? Who will win this fight and what implications will this have for you? - Oldschool Bitcoin. Can we use Bitcoin in our current financial system? Is it worth it? Or do we really need to switch it completely? - Tax haven Bitcoin. You can ditch taxes by investing in Bitcoin. To some degree. But you have to be careful. This can backfire. Which is why you will learn in this chapter how to do it properly. - The 10 Commandments. I coined the 10 Commandments of a Cryptoinvestor in The Bitcoin Saga. These are 10 rules you should keep in mind and act upon when investing in this market. This chapter also contains actionable advise on how to start, where to start with Bitcoin and with how much. Trust me. $50 is enough. I explain how. - And much more... This is the ultimate beginners book. It covers everything you need to know about Bitcoin and how to invest in it. Simple and usable. This book might make you rich. Get started with Bitcoin with just one click!

Author : Andy Greenberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385548109
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracers in the Dark written by Andy Greenberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I love the book… It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.” (Michael Lewis) Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely—whether in drug dealing, money laundering, or human trafficking—than their analog counterparts could have ever dreamed of. By transacting not in dollars or pounds but in currencies with anonymous ledgers, overseen by no government, beholden to no bankers, these black marketeers have sought to rob law enforcement of their chief method of cracking down on illicit finance: following the money. But what if the centerpiece of this dark economy held a secret, fatal flaw? What if their currency wasn’t so cryptic after all? An investigator using the right mixture of technical wizardry, financial forensics, and old-fashioned persistence could uncover an entire world of wrongdoing. Tracers in the Dark is a story of crime and pursuit unlike any other. With unprecedented access to the major players in federal law enforcement and private industry, veteran cybersecurity reporter Andy Greenberg tells an astonishing saga of criminal empires built and destroyed. He introduces an IRS agent with a defiant streak, a Bitcoin-tracing Danish entrepreneur, and a colorful ensemble of hardboiled agents and prosecutors as they delve deep into the crypto-underworld. The result is a thrilling, globe-spanning story of dirty cops, drug bazaars, trafficking rings, and the biggest takedown of an online narcotics market in the history of the Internet. Utterly of our time, Tracers in the Dark is a cat-and-mouse story and a tale of a technological one-upmanship. Filled with canny maneuvering and shocking twists, it answers a provocative question: How would some of the world’s most brazen criminals behave if they were sure they could never get caught?

Author : Jamie Bartlett
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306829185
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missing Cryptoqueen written by Jamie Bartlett and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 175 countries, four billion dollars, one scam: the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency con in history and the woman behind it all In 2016, on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans, Dr. Ruja Ignatova promised her followers a financial revolution. The future, she said, belonged to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. And the Oxford-educated, self-styled cryptoqueen vowed that she had invented the Bitcoin Killer. OneCoin would not only earn its investors untold fortunes; it would change the world. By March 2017, more than $4 billion had been invested in OneCoin in countries all around the world. But by October 2017, Ruja Ignatova had disappeared, and it slowly became clear that her revolutionary cryptocurrency was not all it seemed. Fortune was left asking, “Is OneCoin the biggest financial fraud in history?” In The Missing Cryptoqueen, acclaimed tech journalist Jamie Bartlett tells the story he began in his smash hit BBC podcast, entering the murky worlds of little-regulated cryptocurrencies and multilevel marketing schemes. Through a globe-crossing investigation into the criminal underworlds, corrupt governments, and the super-rich, he reveals a very modern tale of intrigue, techno-hype and herd madness that allowed OneCoin to become a million-person pyramid scheme—where, at the top, investors were making millions and, at the bottom, people were putting their livelihoods at risk. It’s the inside story of the smartest and biggest scam of the 21st Century—and the genius behind it, who is still on the run.

Author : Finn Brunton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209162
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Cash written by Finn Brunton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: to protect privacy, bring down governments, prepare for apocalypse, or launch a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.

Author : Craig S Wright
Publisher : Kydala Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satoshi's Vision written by Craig S Wright and published by Kydala Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? In 2009, the world of finance changed forever with the publication of a White Paper; Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System. Hard to believe, but bitcoin has been with us for a decade already. In that time, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous author of the paper and creator of the bitcoin protocol, disappeared. In his absence, bitcoin underwent some drastic changes, resulting in hard forks in the code. Now, Craig Wright steps forward to explain why he chose to use a pseudonym, why he left, and why he returned. He outlines the issues facing bitcoin, and his plans for the future. Prepare for Satoshi's Vision: The Art of Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency will never be the same again.

Author : Jonathan Bier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blocksize War written by Jonathan Bier and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers Bitcoin's blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each Bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls Bitcoin's protocol rules. It is not possible to cover every twist and turn in the labyrinthine conflict or all the arguments, but I have provided a chronology of the most significant events. This book explores some of the major characters in the conflict and includes coverage, from both the front lines and behind the scenes, during some of the most acute phases of the struggle. The account in this book includes discussions with the key players from both sides during the war, exploring their motivations, strategy and thought processes as the exhausting campaign progressed and developed.

Author : Ben Mezrich
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 125021775X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bitcoin Billionaires written by Ben Mezrich and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. Planning to start careers as venture capitalists, the brothers quickly discover that no one will take their money after their fight with Zuckerberg. While nursing their wounds in Ibiza, they accidentally run into an eccentric 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, Bitcoin Billionaires will take us on a wild and surprising ride while illuminating a tantalizing economic future. On November 26, 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.

Author : Mark Eglinton
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hero/Villain written by Mark Eglinton and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, when the Bitcoin Whitepaper was published online, the technology world changed forever. Hero / Villain: Satoshi: The Man Who Built Bitcoin tells the story of how an awkward, Australian security specialist first created something revolutionary under the moniker “Satoshi Nakamoto” and how he spent every moment thereafter either in self-imposed hiding or in court trying to protect his invention. Initially intended to be a force for good that would allow people to transact directly and inexpensively online, it wasn’t long before Bitcoin became something else: a store of value with a cast of powerful investors hell-bent on manipulating it for their own gain. For the first time, the real inside story of Bitcoin is laid bare—a story with greed, power, and betrayal at its heart. With firsthand interviews with the man most likely to be Bitcoin’s inventor and those who have fought with him to ensure Bitcoin fulfills its positive and potentially world-changing purpose, Hero / Villain: Satoshi: The Man Who Built Bitcoin serves as an important book in the context of a world where cryptocurrency is in turmoil.

Author : New Scientist
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1857889746
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Money written by New Scientist and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering. Market manipulation. Governments overthrown. These might sound like plot lines of a conspiracy thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of "cryptocurrencies". Originally conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers, these digital currencies, represent a completely new sort of financial transaction - one that doesn't need banks. Yet it's the technology that underpins these cryptocurrencies that has financiers, lawmakers and governments sitting up and taking notice. Hailed as the greatest advancement since the invention of the internet, the blockchain is moving away from being the backbone for a digital currency and making inroads into other core concepts of society: identity, ownership and even the rule of law. The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution. On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an ultra-libertarian society beyond government control.