Bitcoin Billionaires: A true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption

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.