The Story of Bitcoin: From the 2008 Crash to Today’s Wall Street

Bitcoin began as a paper emailed to a cryptography list in the middle of a banking crisis. Since then it has produced overnight fortunes, a vanished exchange, record thefts, and cons that took in investors worldwide.

The Story of Bitcoin follows it in 17 chapters, from the 2008 crash and the cypherpunks who dreamed of digital cash to Wall Street, the courts, and what could go right and wrong next.

🍕 The pizza order that became the most expensive meal in history

🃏 How a trading site for card-game collectors grew into Bitcoin's biggest exchange

🕶️ The black market that gave Bitcoin its first reputation, and the public ledger that helped catch its users

💥 The day an exchange handling about 70% of all trading went dark

⚔️ The block size war that split a community into two camps

🎭 Ponzi schemes, fake mining, and a "cryptocurrency" with no blockchain at all

🗑️ The hard drive in a landfill holding 8,000 bitcoins

Plus the ICO boom and crash, the biggest hacks, and El Salvador's legal-tender experiment.

Get your copy. See how Bitcoin got here before deciding what it means for you.