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Kings of Crypto

Auteur(s): Jeff John Roberts
Narrateur(s): Scott Aiello
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An expert, story-driven account of how Coinbase won the cryptocurrency game and set itself up to lead the future of banking and blockchain-based trading. This is the story of the people who made Coinbase, per PitchBook, “one of the most valuable startups in the US,” including the stoic, preppy founder and CEO Brian Armstrong and the bitcoin-obsessed former lumberjack Olaf Carlson-Wee, who turned their backs on the first generation of wild-eyed Bitcoin prophets to build something more profound and practical — a company poised to be the next generation’s Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan Chase. Founded in 2012, Coinbase today processes billions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency every week and has more customers than long-time investment giants Fidelity and Charles Schwab; what Google is to search and Uber is to ride-sharing, Coinbase is to cryptocurrency.

Ranging from Coinbase’s earliest days and the ensuing crypto-mania to the current battle between Silicon Valley and Wall Street for the center of finance, Kings of Crypto uses Coinbase to explore and explain the larger, over-arching disruption and future of finance.

Jeff John Roberts covers IP, blockchain, and cyber security for Fortune and previously reported on technology for Reuters and Gigaom. He is uniquely positioned to report the financial and legal aspects of the Coinbase story given his background as a lawyer and time as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Business School. In 2018, his work on blockchain for Fortune received a national honor from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. 

©2019 Jeff John Roberts (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

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"A fun, fast-moving book that offers serious insight into the future of finance. For anyone looking to understand Bitcoin or how cryptocurrency will change Wall Street, Kings of Crypto is an essential read." (Alex Tapscott, co-author of Blockchain Revolution)   

"Kings of Crypto tells the story of ragtag band of rebels who saw the future of finance before anyone else and who wrenched the revolution into their orbit. Listening to/reading this book is like sticking a stethoscoped ear to the vault containing the cryptocurrency industry's origins. Click, click, click - and a wealth of secrets spills out. Learn what made Coinbase, one of the most improbably successful Silicon Valley startups, hit it big - and what makes its founding 'Vulcan Swiss bankers' tick. As long as Satoshi Nakamoto's identity remains a secret, this is the closest you'll come to understanding the rise of crypto - and where it's all headed." (Robert Hackett, crypto reporter and senior staff writer, Fortune magazine)

"Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase overcame huge obstacles to bring on more customers than Charles Schwab had over five decades. How did brand-new entrepreneurs get 30 million everyday people to buy a new form of money? In Kings of Crypto, Jeff Roberts reveals all in this entertaining, absorbing and surprising story." (Laura Shin, Forbes reporter and host of popular crypto podcast Unchained)

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Enjoyed from start to finish

Fantastic account of coinbase and the history of crypto as a whole up to today. As someone relatively familiar to crypto currencies and coinbase this was still a fantastic listen. I would recommend this people just learning about crypto and seasoned veterans alike. Performance was fantastic as well.

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Very well written book

The book kept me entertained the entire time. Not only do I have a deeper understanding of crypto, I also started investing.

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New in cryptos

I am new in croptoccurencies and I have found this book very instructive. A must read for evyone who likes crypto.
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Best Narrator Ever

Book was great in narration. This narrator could make any book interesting.

Overall it’s mostly like history of everything that happened in Bitcoin world since 2013. Definitely interesting and racy

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Good historical into and intro

I picked up this book to try to learn a bit more about how bitcoin and related technologies work. I found an interesting history of one specific cryptocurrency business, Coinbase, instead. However, wrapped around the history was a good bit of other info about the technology and developments in society at large, which helped put context to the story.

While I quite enjoyed the story, I happened to listen to this right after Levy's book "Crypto" (about modern cryptography in the wider sense), and while this book is a great continuation, it is at nowhere near the level of Levy's as far as thoroughness, and even just the clarity, listenability, and ease of understanding. I realize it's not really fair to try to compare books as apples to crypto-oranges, but the contrast in overall writing and story quality was quite apparent. So I gave this one only 3 stars (still "good") instead of five ("I love it"). But still well worth the time spent.

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most captivating audible so far!

fascinating and entertaining all the way through. excellent narration and interesting content. wish it was longer.

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