**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.
