The wild true story of cyber-era commerce crime cold-hard cash and one of the greatest
heists in history. Even in hell Bitcoin talks. This modern take on an old Japanese saying
still holds true. Cryptocurrency was supposed to do for money what the Internet did for
information but it didn't work out that way. Its virtual existence 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 that company collapsed with nearly half
a billion dollars' worth of bitcoin gone missing. It might be the greatest heist in history. If
it was a heist. So what really happened? Here's the true story of the humble-to-hot commodity
from the former geek website that launched the boom to an inside world of absent-minded CEOs
hucksters hackers cybercrooks drug dealers corrupt federal agents evangelical libertarians
and clueless techies. You'll discover Bitcoin's connection to the infamous Silk Road learn why
hell has nothing on Japan's criminal justice system and get the lowdown on the high cost of
betting with the Devil's dollars. All of this for less than the price of a single bitcoin.
