Beschreibung
This true story explores cyber-era commerce, crime, cold hard cash and one of the greatest heists in history. Cryptocurrency was supposed to do for money what the internet did for information, but its virtual existence instead unleashed real-world chaos, especially in the homeland of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Tokyo was the centre of the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, until the company collapsed with nearly half a billion dollars’ worth of bitcoin missing. It might have been the greatest heist in history, if it was a heist. Jake Adelstein follows Bitcoin from the former geek website that launched the boom into a world of absent-minded CEOs, hucksters, hackers, cybercrooks, drug dealers, corrupt federal agents, evangelical libertarians and clueless techies. He explores Bitcoin’s connection to the infamous Silk Road, Japan’s criminal justice system and the high cost of betting with the Devil’s dollars.
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Author: Adelstein Jake
Language: Englisch
Publication date: 6. November 2025
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: Englische Literatur, Bücher, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Wahre Verbrechen, Sachliteratur in englischer Sprache
Type: Bücher - Taschenbuch
Pages: 212
ISBN/EAN: 9781917189248