We know the names of the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, from David Fincher's film The Social Network: according to them, Mark Zuckerberg created the first version of Facebook by using their source code. Ben Mezrich, the author of the book that served as the basis for the Oscar-winning film, continued the story a decade later, the new chapter of which is even more astonishing: how the members of the pair of twins who were "destroyed" with a few tens of millions became the world's first bitcoin billionaires.
One of today's most respected American fact-finders picks up the thread when Tyler and Cameron learn the hard way that it's not worth pulling a finger with the lord of Facebook after no one wants to do business with them in Silicon Valley. However, a chance meeting in Ibiza in 2012 opens up new opportunities for them: the mysterious, dark world of cryptocurrencies. As they state, bitcoin is either complete bullshit, or the business of the century; they bet on the latter.
The fascinating and entirely true story of the first bitcoin billionaires, peppered with wild parties, FBI raids and strange characters, follows the history of cryptocurrencies from the illegal trade in the depths of the dark web to the revolutionizing bitcoin fever. It shows how bitcoin became a part of our everyday life and how an investment of a few hundred thousand dollars turned into a billion dollar fortune in just five years.