Once A Bitcoin Miner

by Ethan Lou
Once A Bitcoin Miner
  • ISBN-13: 9781773055893
  • Author(s): Ethan Lou
  • Subject: Economics
  • Publisher: Ecw Press
  • Imprint: Ecw Press Digital
  • Publication Date: 28-10-2021
  • Format: Electronic book text

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£9.99
Fresh out of university, Ethan Lou moves west to write for Reuters, landing in an oil boomtown founded by redcoats fighting illegal whiskey. But before that, he had another life, in the cryptocurrency world, crossing paths with the likes of the late Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX and the Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio. When early Bitcoin investments pay off spectacularly, Ethan leaves his job to build a blockchain start-up, riding into a nearly-trillion-dollar frontier of open-bar pool parties, wealth-flaunting money giveaways, psychedelics, scams, scandal, and turmoil. Somehow, he ends up in North Korea, at the very conference at which the Ethereum computer scientist Virgil Griffith is accused by the FBI of breaking sanctions - and Ethan saw everything. He finds nothing lasts. Calamity comes in waves. Bitcoin plunges. Overhead, vultures circle, and in the tall grass, lawmen lurk. Ethan and his fellows seek fortune and new beginnings amid the harsh unpredictability of their new wor
About the book

Fresh out of university, Ethan Lou moves west to write for Reuters, landing in an oil boomtown founded by redcoats fighting illegal whiskey. But before that, he had another life, in the cryptocurrency world, crossing paths with the likes of the late Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX and the Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio. When early Bitcoin investments pay off spectacularly, Ethan leaves his job to build a blockchain start-up, riding into a nearly-trillion-dollar frontier of open-bar pool parties, wealth-flaunting money giveaways, psychedelics, scams, scandal, and turmoil. Somehow, he ends up in North Korea, at the very conference at which the Ethereum computer scientist Virgil Griffith is accused by the FBI of breaking sanctions - and Ethan saw everything. He finds nothing lasts. Calamity comes in waves. Bitcoin plunges. Overhead, vultures circle, and in the tall grass, lawmen lurk. Ethan and his fellows seek fortune and new beginnings amid the harsh unpredictability of their new wor

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