Reccomended for those interested in bitcoin

Excellent read for those interested in the pioneers & earliest investors of the Bitcoin digital cryptocurrency.
Well written from the perspectives of the Winklevoss twins & their investment into one of the very first bitcoin exchanges.
Tells the tale of the main characters in bitcoins early years and what propelled it to become as mainstream as it is today.
How accurate the story is something only a handful of people can confirm but it brings a good understanding of what occurred during those early years.
I would most certainly reccomend it to anyone interested in the subject
Narration was fantastic, very easy to follow down the rabbit hole.

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Fascinating

A fascinating story into the early years of Bitcoin and life after Facebook for the twins

Well read and an easy listen.

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brilliant

Narrator is excellent. Story told brilliantly. Kept me very interested throughout. Highly recommended for anybody with an interest in Bitcoin and Crypto.
The author has obviously put a lot of effort into learning the history of this story and it is very educational as well as entertaining.
It has also given me a good insight into the history/background of some of the bitcoin advocates I have seen online and watched on YouTube.

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A story of an authors love affair for the Winkevii

Interesting, engrossing and well written story of the Winklevoss twins x Bitcoin. The only downer is the bias for them being hard done by in previous business dealings..it gets a little tired.
The narration is ok, but I have no idea why they thought doing accents (badly) for figures across the world would be good idea?

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Wow,

This book was brilliant not only for learning a bit of history of Bitcoin, but also learning a bit of the winklevos twins, and how they indeed have bee portrayed as bad guys.
I like it very much.

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Brilliant and enlightenment story

Great story well written, I feel like listening to it again straight away.... 5 stars.

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the new Bits and Coins

insightful and inspiring read. narrator made it quite interesting and did a good job. lots to learn from the perseverance of the twins.you can't keep a good man down.

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An absolute must read for every crypto enthusiast

Fantastic book with great story, amazing before unknown bitcoin history facts and shows the name of Winkelvoss twins in a totally new light - they deserve everything they have earned! Tx

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The kids who beat up the karate kid release a book

The Following is a review of this book as if Mark Zuckerberg listened to it and then reviewed it:

Bitcoin billionaire should have aptly been labelled Bitcoin bullies.

Ben Mizrahi is chasing another story to buy his next yacht with. He is the equivalent of a lawyer chasing ambulances to sue people for fraud compensation to make money.

Ben is so desperate for a story related to his previous book on me, the he made a deal with the devil with those dumb jocks who tried to sue me because apparently I stole their idea even though they did jack all work with their website and were sitting around rowing boats.

In his previous book, the author painted these guys as dumb jocks, now he tries to brush over this fact and goes overboard in praising them just because one of their investments worked out amongst their many failures

There are certain people who are leeches in society, lawyers, bankers and the Winklevi twins. They add no value to anyone and don’t built anything. Rather they seek opportunity to leech off other people’s creativity and hard work. They tried to leech off my company, they leech off the developers of Bitcoin, and they make money by selling blockchain crap to a vulnerable public.

What value have they added? None and they never will.

I was smart enough to realise that they were leeches and fought them. Charlie Shrem one of their partners led a sheltered life, and therefore is easily taken advantage of by everyone and got screwed by them (And others). And even though the poor guy has come out of jail and the Winkevi are billionaires- the Winklevi are suing him for a few million dollars to add more to ill gotten gains.

The only way these guys will make money is by sucking life from others. In many ways similar to the Goldman Sachs vampire squid analogy written by Matt Taibi in Rollingstones who defined as following:

a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Look the book reads well and it is a page turner.

But I am smart enough to critically analyse and look up things when mentioned in the book.

Eg
Mizrahi argues that the Winklevoss were pioneers of two good ideas the social network and bitcoin. This is not true since they tried to hang on to people developing those ideas. Also when u have money, a lot of it, you are presented with more business opportunities to make money, like the twins were with Bitcoin. He does not talk about their many business failures. Also I made billions acquiring WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus etc. Does it make me a genius or someone who has a lot of resources and some experience to make great decisions. You can look up Facebook failures I had as well if you want.

U can’t be rowing at Olympic level which they flopped at, and then run a business.

Mizrahi said the Winklevi knew html and so were technically savy. Hey I can listen to a heartbeat with a stethascope, that means I am a cardiologist.

In essence this book is enjoyable but be aware of the lopsided and bias in favour of the Winklevi.

Mark Z

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Awesome

Interesting insight into the early days of bitcoin and the rise of the Winklevoss twins

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