Once a Bitcoin Miner : Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West (Paperback)

Part autobiography and part investigation, the book describes the wackiness, the fraudulence, and the cycle of Bitcoin boom and bust and boom.

We begin with scandal and conflict in Canada'\u2019s cryptocurrency Wild West and spiral outward.

\"Lou himself is a rare commodity in that he understands cryptocurrency and knows how to write about it ...

This book stands out as a rare example of a readable snapshot of a world we all need to get more informed about." -- The Times Ethan Lou goes on an epic quest through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild West, through riches, absurdity, wonder, and woe.

From investing in Bitcoin in university to his time writing for Reuters, and then mining the digital asset ? Lou meets a co-\u2010founder of Ethereum and Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX (before he was reported dead), and hangs out in North Korea with Virgil Griffith, the man later arrested for allegedly teaching blockchain to the totalitarian state.

Coming of age in the 2008 financial crisis, Lou'\u2019s generation has a natural affinity with this rebel internet money, this so-\u2010called millennial gold, created in the wake of that economic storm.