In the space of a few years, Bitcoin has gone from an idea ignored or maligned by almost everyone to an asset with a market cap of more than $12 billion. Venture capital firms, Goldman Sachs, the New York Stock Exchange, and billionaires such as Richard Branson and Peter Thiel have invested more than $1 billion in companies built on this groundbreaking technology. Bill Gates has even declared it ‘better than currency’.The pioneers of Bitcoin were twenty-first-century outlaws – cryp...

Discover how you can make money from cryptocurrency - even if you**'re a complete novice**Between 2010 and 2017 The price of Bitcoin rose from $0.07 to over $16,000 - An increase of 22,857,000%!That's the equivalent of buying 1 share of Apple stock today and that very same share being worth an astonishing $38.7 million in just 7 short years.But the Bitcoin ship has sailed right? Aren't the best days of cryptocurrenc...

An in-depth explanation of how bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies work, their potential for good and bad, and how this is likely to affect you as a citizen, government, business, and global geopolitics.Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy almost anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This ...

A New York Times reporter's "vivid" account of the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and how it has led to untold riches for some—and prison terms for others ( Financial Times).Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceThe notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been th...

THE BASIS FOR THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEYINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR“A smart, savvy road map through the mayhem of the cryptocurrency madness.” —RON CHERNOW, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of

"Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." —Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, Former Treasury SecretaryFrom Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryp...

"A sober riposte to all the upbeat forecasts about cryptocurrency" — New York Review of Books"A very convincing takedown of the whole phenomenon" — BBC NewsAn experimental new Internet-based form of money is created that anyone can generate at home; people build frightening firetrap computers full of video cards, putting out so much heat that one operator is hospitalised with heatstroke and brain damage.A young physics student starts a revolutionar...

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock. He has also authored and co-authored several b...

Bitcoin: The Future of Money? was the first book to tell the incredible story behind Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and it remains a cryptocurrency book unlike any other.Author Dominic Frisby doesn't just provide the best explanation of cryptocurrency for beginners but takes readers on a page-turning journey through the anarchic internet subcultures that gave rise to it, meeting many of those who had a front-row seat to a financial revolution...

How we pay is so fundamental that it underpins everything— from trade to taxation, stocks and savings, to salaries, pensions, and pocket money.Rich or poor, criminal, communist, or capitalist, we all rely on the same payments system, day in, day out. It sits between us and not just economic meltdown, but a total breakdown in law and order. Why then do we know so little about how it really works?As you read this, technology is...

Bitcoin is without a doubt the most important invention since the Internet.In fact, it may even be bigger than the Internet. It is such a profound paradigm shift in the technology of money that even experts on the topic are still trying to wrap their heads around it. Pandora's box has been opened and there is no going back. Bitcoin will forever transform society and its implications are beyond what we can even currently imagine.Bitcoin can be hard to grasp ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READThe bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing—and yet you are somehow happy.When Carol Roth first heard that one of the World Economic Forum’s predictions for 2030 was “You will own nothing, and be happy,” she thoug...