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Narrated by:
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Will Damron
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By:
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Ben Mezrich
About this listen
"Narrating with subtle pitch and phrasing variations, Will Damron connects with every bit of the drama and interpersonal tension that pervade this story. His pleasing voice and facility with dialogue are enormously enjoyable.... Damron's superb performance adds to the excitement and makes this captivating listening." (AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner)
From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires - the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss' big bet on cryptocurrency and its dazzling pay-off.
Ben Mezrich's 2009 best seller, 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.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 87
After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylumlike oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A place where billions of dollars trade hands every week, the Merc is like a casino on crack, where former garbagemen become millionaires overnight and where fistfights break out on the trading floor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another interesting story...
- By Carey Patrick Ryan on 11-27-07
By: Ben Mezrich
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Digital Gold
- Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
- By: Nathaniel Popper
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,872
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,862
A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Informative, but dry
- By Tomer on 05-10-16
By: Nathaniel Popper
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The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains
- An Introduction to Cryptocurrencies and the Technology That Powers Them
- By: Antony Lewis
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 352
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 348
There’s a lot of information on cryptocurrency and blockchains out there. But, for the uninitiated, most of this information can be indecipherable. The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains aims to provide an accessible guide to this new currency and the revolutionary technology that powers it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Author didn't do the whole job.
- By Alexander Andro on 05-21-21
By: Antony Lewis
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The Midnight Ride
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Corey Carthew
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 82
From the celebrated, New York Times bestselling author comes the twisted thriller of an MIT grad student who unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and the most fascinating secret in American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great idea, mediocre approach
- By Josh on 10-14-22
By: Ben Mezrich
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Dumb Money
- The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 241
Best-selling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet trolls on a subreddit called WallStreetBets took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that threatens to upend the establishment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Seemed like Mezrich rushed this book
- By William C Scott on 09-24-21
By: Ben Mezrich
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21
- Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,061
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 570
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 579
In the midst of the Go-Go '90s, the culture of greed infused the MIT campus. A small blackjack club sprang up, dedicated to counting cards and beating the house at major casinos around the country. The Club grew slowly at first, but by the late 1990s, the right people had come up with the right system to take some of the world's most sophisticated casinos for all they were worth.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Killed by Narrator
- By Harry JD on 03-12-08
By: Ben Mezrich
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Ugly Americans
- The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: TBD
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 184
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 185
Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very entertaining
- By Amazon Customer on 06-09-05
By: Ben Mezrich
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Sex on the Moon
- The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Casey Affleck
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 317
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 257
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Story4 out of 5 stars 260
Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA - past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallways - and help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks. But what does one do with an item so valuable that it’s illegal even to own?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book, horrible narration
- By M. Jordan on 07-27-11
By: Ben Mezrich
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Once upon a Time in Russia
- The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,007
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 864
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 865
The best-selling author of Bringing Down the House (63 weeks on the New York Times best seller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry, and betrayal among megawealthy Russian oligarchs - and its international repercussions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oligarchs, Operatives, Explosives & Intrigue!
- By Michael J Canning on 07-26-16
By: Ben Mezrich
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The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- By: Vijay Boyapati
- Narrated by: Vijay Boyapati
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 226
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 196
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Story5 out of 5 stars 196
Boyapati presents the theory of money, the anatomy of Bitcoin, the reasons it is superior to the gold and fiat standards that came before it, and the promise that it offers to human civilization. He describes path dependence and the trajectory of a newly monetizing asset in terms the layman can understand, and he addresses the concerns that most commonly arise as newcomers struggle to comprehend the essence and significance of this first digital monetary network.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is the book you give your dad.
- By Kirk on 01-25-22
By: Vijay Boyapati
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The 37th Parallel
- The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Ben Mezrich
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 395
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 398
This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Misleading Title and Marketing But Still Good
- By Reggie on 02-05-18
By: Ben Mezrich
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Goblins
- The X-Files, Book 1
- By: Charles Grant
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,000
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 906
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Story4 out of 5 stars 903
Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI - the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there...and panics - the cases filed under "X".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not a bad start
- By Russell B. on 04-09-15
By: Charles Grant
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Inventing Bitcoin
- The Technology Behind the First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained
- By: Yan Pritzker
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 252
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story5 out of 5 stars 208
Bitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most people have no idea what it is or how it works. Walking through its invention, step by step, this short audiobook is critical before you invest. Learn why Bitcoin was invented and how it works.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A step closer to understanding Bitcoin
- By Brian on 08-06-20
By: Yan Pritzker
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Busting Vegas
- The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Ben Mezrich
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 269
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age 21, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop, a system that has never been revealed until now; that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Flat Read
- By Ginger Saariaho on 10-17-05
By: Ben Mezrich
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Layered Money
- From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies
- By: Nik Bhatia
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 704
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 568
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 565
In this fascinating deep dive into the evolution of monetary systems around the globe, Nik Bhatia takes us into the origins of how money has evolved to function in a “layered” manner. Using gold as an example of this term, he traces the layers of this ancient currency from raw mined material, to gold coins, and finally to bank-issued gold certificates. In a groundbreaking manner, Bhatia offers a similar paradigm for the evolution of digital currencies.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Stunningly biased. Reads like an ad for BTC
- By JD on 08-23-21
By: Nik Bhatia
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Number Go Up
- Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
- By: Zeke Faux
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 582
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 495
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 495
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked—but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named “digital asset”? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? What started as curiosity—with a dash of FOMO—would morph into a two-year globe-spanning quest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal story
- By Michael on 10-05-23
By: Zeke Faux
100% Great story
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educational fun exciting
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Great insight on how it all came to be. HODL!
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Loved how it demonstrated, through actual experiences, how the religious-order-tech-cult is thoroughly dishonorable, deceitful, and dangerous to civilization. You will know the zealots of this evil order by the ridiculous buzzwords these fools repetitively use... demonic mantras of the depraved and decieved.
Entertaining 10/10.
Great audiobook.
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Entertaining, but not Journalism
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One for the history books
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Kept me sitting in the car!
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Great book
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Typo Mezrich
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WOW
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