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Once a Bitcoin Miner

Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West

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Once a Bitcoin Miner

By: Ethan Lou
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
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There is the Bitcoin story of the headlines, but there is a more important one behind them: tangled plots sprawling like roots deep underground, entire worlds in which we are just passersby. In Once a Bitcoin Miner, journalist and author Ethan Lou takes listeners on a richly told first-person narrative through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild West. From investing in Bitcoin in university to his time writing for Reuters, and then mining the digital asset, Lou meets the late Gerald Cotten (of QuadrigaCX) and a cofounder of Ethereum and hangs out in North Korea with Virgil Griffith, the man later arrested for allegedly teaching blockchain to the totalitarian state.

Coming of age during the 2008 financial crisis, Lou's generation has a natural affinity with this rebel internet money, this so-called millennial gold, created in the wake of that economic storm. At once a personal story of adventure and fortune, this book is also a work of journalistic rigor, a deep dive into this domain that everyone hears about yet nobody truly knows and into the lives of the fast-talkers, the exiles, the ambitious, and the daring, forging their paths in a new world harsh and unpredictable.

©2021 Ethan Lou (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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bring on the crypto wild wild west

Once a Bitcoin Miner was an interesting story; the author has first-hand encounters with controversial figures Gerald Cotton and Jan Gregory Cerato (oozing crypto bro'ness)

By trade, the author is a journalist Ethan, but in his college days, he started networking with meet-up groups, where he met Jan, and taught himself mining by networking with others.

Ethan was born in Germany and raised in Canada; he got to know Anthony Di Iorio before he joined Ethereum. And he even went to the North Korean Blockchain Expo (which turned out to be a farce), but I found that particular story intriguing.

At times, the narrator's voice was a little annoying with doing bad imitations of accents.

What are you listening to this week? I'm going to browse through my library and pick something out later tonight :) Have a good week, everyone. 

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