
Crypto Confidential
Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance
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Nathaniel Eliason
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THE WILD INSIDE STORY OF CRYPTO'S GET-RICH-QUICK UNDERBELLY
Nat Eliason had six months to make as much money as possible before his first child was born. So, he turned to where countless others did in 2021: Crypto.
Within a year, he'd made millions writing code holding hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money. He'd been hacked. He'd sold a picture of a monkey for two hundred grand. He'd become an influencer, speaking at conferences, and writing a weekly newsletter to tens of thousands of fans. Best of all, Nat had amassed a small fortune. But how much of this money was even real? And how many times can someone double down before they eventually lose everything?
Crypto Confidential is Nat's unfiltered insider's account of the hyperactive, hyper-speculative, hyper-addictive, nearly unregulated, completely insane world being built on the blockchain. A behind-the-scenes exposé of the bull runs and breakdowns, revealing exactly how the crypto-sausage gets made. A story of getting rich, going broke, scamming and getting scammed—and how we can all be more educated participants during the inevitable next bull run.
©2024 Nathaniel Eliason (P)2024 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Go beyond the hype and discover the facts at the core of crypto. By choosing not to participate in crypto at all, you might be missing out on a life-changing opportunity. Blockchain technology is changing the way the world works, and this is only the beginning. You may feel like you missed the bus with crypto, but you still have a chance to get into it and reap the rewards.
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A 5 Year Old High School Term Paper
- By Watchdog on 03-19-24
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The Only Cryptocurrency Investing Book You'll Ever Need
- An Absolute Beginner's Guide to the Biggest "Millionaire Maker" Asset of 2022 and Beyond - Including How to Make Money from NFTs
- By: Freeman Publications
- Narrated by: Mark Greenberg
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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What was once a fringe currency only used by a dark corner of the web…is now the fastest growing financial asset on Earth. And, this is just the beginning…. You see, we are still in just the third inning of crypto as a financial entity. So, while no financial vehicle is making people rich as quickly as cryptocurrency, less than eight percent of Americans and three percent of the worldwide population owns it! But now, the major players are taking an interest.
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READ THIS ONE FIRST!
- By manasah57 on 05-03-22
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Bitcoin Billionaires
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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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.
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Misleading Title - Mostly "Winkelvi Memoirs"
- By kameir on 06-07-19
By: Ben Mezrich
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How to Live
- 27 Conflicting Answers and One Weird Conclusion
- By: Derek Sivers
- Narrated by: Derek Sivers
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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Many books believe they know how you should live. But each book disagrees with the next. In How to Live, each chapter believes it knows how you should live. And each chapter disagrees with the next.
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Most people will not appreciate this
- By TashaJRiley on 04-10-23
By: Derek Sivers
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The Money Trap
- Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble
- By: Alok Sama
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he'd seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the world—SoftBank, the backer of Arm Holdings, Yahoo, Nvidia, TikTok, Uber, T-Mobile, Alibaba and WeWork. The Money Trap is Sama’s thrilling, stranger-than-fiction personal odyssey featuring his experiences alongside SoftBank’s iconic founder, Masayoshi Son, a visionary maverick who wants to be remembered as “the crazy guy who bet on the future” and whose mission is “happiness for everyone.”
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Finally a book I can recommend
- By Fadi Awni Abu-Shamat on 01-22-25
By: Alok Sama
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Crypto Investing Guide
- How to Invest in Bitcoin, DeFi, NFTs, and More
- By: Ian Balina, The Token Metrics Team
- Narrated by: Christian Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Lack of knowledge is no longer an excuse - there's no time like the present for becoming a crypto investor. What if we told you that one book could contain an entire education in crypto investing topics? Whether you're an uninitiated newbie or an established veteran, this book exists to help you get a profitable start as a new crypto investor. The committed reader will go on an educational journey that starts in the world of conventional finance before crossing the crypto bridge to go deep on crypto assets, decentralized finance, NFTs, and security token offerings.
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This is it ...
- By Robert E. Ricker on 12-28-21
By: Ian Balina, and others
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The Everything Token
- How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create
- By: Steve Kaczynski, Scott Duke Kominers
- Narrated by: Steve Kaczynski, Scott Duke Kominers
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they're a new technology for creating digital assets and providing irrefutable proof of ownership. NFTs open up markets that have never before existed, and are already revolutionizing commerce and brand-building at everything from hot startups to Fortune 500 companies. Kominers and Kaczynski have created a framework that explains what NFTs are, why they’re valuable, and how businesses can leverage them to build highly engaged and intensely loyal communities around their products and brands.
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Great insight
- By Kevin A Perez on 03-30-24
By: Steve Kaczynski, and others
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Cryptocurrency Investing for Dummies
- By: Kiana Danial
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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While the cryptocurrency market is known for its volatility-and this volatility is often linked to the ever-changing regulatory environment of the industry - the entire cryptocurrency market is expected to reach a total value of $1 trillion this year. If you want to get in on the action, this book shows you how. Cryptocurrency Investing for Dummies offers trusted guidance on how to make money trading and investing in the top 200 digital currencies, no matter what the market sentiment.
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stop reading URLs.
- By Andrew Sperry on 05-05-21
By: Kiana Danial
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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
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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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Author didn't do the whole job.
- By Alexander Andro on 05-21-21
By: Antony Lewis
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The Bitcoin Standard
- The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small Online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally-accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.
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Less Bitcoin, more old Austrian Economics Vendetta
- By Brian Considine on 07-19-19
By: Saifedean Ammous
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- By: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Nate Silver
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century.
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Fascinating report from a distant land
- By David Benjamin on 09-14-24
By: Nate Silver
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Read Write Own
- Building the Next Era of the Internet
- By: Chris Dixon
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Chris Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks.
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Future of the Web
- By S. Heller on 04-27-24
By: Chris Dixon
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- Alan R.
- 07-11-24
Engaging story I finished in a day
Extremely well written. Brought me back to last cycle’s mania. Wonderful way to learn about crypto, and also great insight into what Nat learned from the experience. Highly recommend!
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- Thomas Plaatsman
- 07-15-24
Couldn't put it down!
Loved the personal experience, exciting story and interesting to learn more about the crypto market.
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- Ryne MacPherson
- 07-18-24
What a book!
This book is such a fun story and recap of the crypto markets over the past couple of years. I couldn’t put it down. What a great story!
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- Goodfella
- 08-02-24
An insider look of a crypto project during the 2021 bullrun in crypto
I've been following Nat for a while because I loved his blog and book reviews. I was surprised to learn how much he had changed his career focusing solely on crypto. Now we have the full story of what was going on. This book is fun, Iistened to it in one sitting.
I think Nat was honest in all of the things he chose to share about his crazy time as a crypto builder and investor: the technology exists and it's pretty cool, but human nature makes this industry look like all for show and it's made just to make money in a greater fool theory kind of way, the products are never real, hence the reason they work until they don't.
Will Nat become a multimillionaire this new crypto bullrun? He has the capital and knowledge to do so.
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- Travis
- 08-02-24
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wish for another bull run
As a normie who mostly watched the crypto craze from the outside (and maybe provided a little charitable exit liquidity for other investors) it was thrilling to get to ride the wave from Nat’s perspective. I didn't get this book to learn about crypto but I learned a ton and the narrative kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. More than once I found my blood pressure rising and my palms getting sweaty as I got sucked into the storyline. I will definitely be recommending this to a all my friends who had brushes with crypto.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-09-24
An amazing and very insightful listen
A great gateway and very insightful listen about the crypto space, I never finished a book so fast before.
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- Mark
- 12-31-24
Now I know
I knew nothing about Cyrpto until I read this book. My worst fear about Crypto is now confirmed. How Dangerous it is. Great book, fascinating stuff.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-31-25
Good outline of bitcoin
It was fun to listen to the story of how a programmer got into bitcoin. It gives an understanding of this difficult concept from several angles and explains some of the ways a lot of money can be made and also some of the ways it cans be lost.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-04-24
Entertaining Story
Entertaining story that tells the tale of crypto degeneracy from the perspective of a developer.
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- Samuel
- 02-28-25
Great Personal Account
Heard about this on the Made You Think podcast. It made me feel like I was back in 2021 making stupid money on Bitcoin. Also made me very happy that I got out when I did. I remember that constant anxiety very well.
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