num_pages: 288
description: The fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.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. Theres 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. Heres the story of how they got thereas only Ben Mezrich could tell it.
language: English
title: Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
publisher: Flatiron Books