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Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.
Few people know the true history of Bitcoin and its original design due to years of heavy censorship, social media engineering, and tight information controls online. Hijacking Bitcoin destroys the most popular narratives that surround Bitcoin and sets the historical record straight.
Roger Ver's passion and pain come through as he tells the story of a beloved project corrupted in front of his eyes. Written by one of the most prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry, this book is impossible to ignore.
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Bitcoin has been captured and changed for the worse. That's the undeniable conclusion of Hijacking Bitcoin. Chocked full of history and inconvenient truths, this book goes on a myth-busting rampage against the most popular narratives that surround BTC.
Is Bitcoin truly decentralized? Is it supposed to be digital gold or digital cash? Did the original design really have scaling problems? Roger Ver addresses these questions head-on and provides uncomfortable answers.
Roger Ver is the world's first investor in Bitcoin startups and has been a prominent name in the cryptocurrency industry since the beginning. Yet, as he confesses in the introduction, this book is not a love story. It's a devastating exposé of the corruption, propaganda, and centralization of power in Bitcoin.
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A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism. Empire—whether British or otherwise—informs nearly everything we do.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important history
- De Maggie A. en 07-02-23
De: Sathnam Sanghera, y otros
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The Digital Odyssey
- Unveiling the Chronicles of Computing and Technology
- De: Byron-Scott Jones
- Narrado por: Phil Parker
- Duración: 5 h y 38 m
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Embark on an enlightening journey through the annals of technological evolution with "The Digital Odyssey: Unveiling the Chronicles of Computing and Technology" by Byron-Scott Jones. This meticulously researched and engagingly written book traces humanity's relentless pursuit of innovation, from the earliest tools of prehistory to the cutting-edge technologies shaping our future.
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The Metaverse
- Building the Spatial Internet / Fully Revised and Updated Edition
- De: Matthew Ball
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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In this fully revised and updated edition of his internationally best-selling book, pioneering theorist and entrepreneur Matthew Ball goes beyond the hype cycle to present a definitive account of the future of the internet. The Metaverse, according to Ball’s industry-shaping definition, is a persistent and interconnected network of 3D virtual worlds that will eventually serve as the gateway to most online experiences and underpin much of the physical world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Matthew Ball does it again!
- De Bubba Gaeddert en 10-01-24
De: Matthew Ball
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The Experience Machine
- How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
- De: Andy Clark
- Narrado por: Andy Clark
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head. What if rather than perceiving reality passively, your mind actively predicts it?
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3 out of 5 stars
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About halfway through, it became propaganda
- De Jesse Helton en 08-13-23
De: Andy Clark
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On the Origin of Time
- Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
- De: Thomas Hertog
- Narrado por: Ethan Kelly
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. In order to solve this mystery, Hawking studied the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the math predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse—countless different universes, most of which would be far too bizarre to harbor life.
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1960 ’s to 1980’s Re-Hash of History
- De Ron A. Parsons en 11-13-23
De: Thomas Hertog
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It's a Gas
- The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
- De: Mark Miodownik
- Narrado por: Daniel Weyman
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Gases are all around us—they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our atmosphere. Often invisible and sometimes odorless, these ubiquitous substances are also the least understood materials in our world, and always have been. It wasn’t long ago that gases were seen as the work of ancient spirits: the sudden closing of a door after a change in airflow signaled a ghost’s presence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Nice Addition to the Other Books
- De Zach Brunson en 10-15-24
De: Mark Miodownik
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The Little Book of Aliens
- De: Adam Frank
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe. Are aliens real? Where are they? Why haven’t we found them? What happens if we do?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Outstanding
- De CarlosR en 04-22-24
De: Adam Frank
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The Embarrassment of Riches
- An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama recreates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tulip-speculators.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Noe en 12-05-24
De: Simon Schama
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The Game Changers
- How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too
- De: Tim Clare
- Narrado por: Tim Clare
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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In this fascinating and entertaining look at games throughout history, Tim Clare explores the legal highs of a good dice roll, the thrills of a predatory race game, and the tactile pleasures of the games that age with us through our lives. Drawing on Roman anti-cheating devices, organised crime card games, and dice contests that link Chaucer to Warren G, The Game Changers will show you why games are more popular now than ever, and how playing them helps us win more often, become better losers and stay one step ahead - on and off the board. Through play, we become fully ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stories will draw you in.
- De Debra A. en 12-07-24
De: Tim Clare
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The Earth Transformed
- An Untold History
- De: Peter Frankopan
- Narrado por: Peter Frankopan
- Duración: 29 h y 11 m
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Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Thoughtful History of A Complex Phenomenon
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 04-21-23
De: Peter Frankopan
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Inventor of the Future
- The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
- De: Alec Nevala-Lee
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he enthralled a vast popular audience, inspired devotion from both the counterculture and the establishment, and was praised as a modern Leonardo da Vinci. To his admirers, he exemplified what one man could accomplish by approaching urgent design problems using a radically unconventional set of strategies, which he based on a mystical conception of the universe’s geometry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I learned much about Buckminster Fuller!
- De Richard J. Chandler en 09-12-22
De: Alec Nevala-Lee
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A Brief History of Intelligence
- Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
- De: Max S. Bennett
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can tell us about the AI of tomorrow.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Flawed fundamental assumptions, good function rvw
- De Duane Leet en 06-01-24
De: Max S. Bennett
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Wired for Story
- The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
- De: Lisa Cron
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what keeps readers transfixed. Wired for Story reveals these cognitive secrets—and it’s a game-changer for anyone who has ever set pen to paper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring but boring
- De J. Hansen en 11-19-23
De: Lisa Cron
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Influence Is Your Superpower
- The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen
- De: Zoe Chance
- Narrado por: Zoe Chance
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, to follow the rules, to wait your turn, to not make waves. Award-winning Yale professor Zoe Chance will show you how to rediscover the superpower that brings great ideas to life. Influence doesn’t work the way you think because you don’t think the way you think. Move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Came for sales advice, stayed for life advice.
- De Charisse Morrell en 04-24-23
De: Zoe Chance
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White Trash
- The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
- De: Nancy Isenberg
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I have lived this experience and failed badly.
- De James W. Hoffpauir en 08-26-23
De: Nancy Isenberg
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The Good Virus
- The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
- De: Tom Ireland
- Narrado por: Ben Deery
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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At every moment, within our bodies and all around us, trillions of microscopic combatants are waging a war that shapes our health and life on Earth. Countless times per second, viruses known as phages attack and destroy bacteria while leaving all other life forms, including us, unscathed. Vastly outnumbering the viruses that do us harm, phages power ecosystems, drive evolutionary innovation, and harbor a remarkable capacity to heal life-threatening infections when conventional antibiotics fail. Yet most of us have never heard of them, thinking of viruses only as enemies to be feared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No brainer
- De Paul en 10-11-23
De: Tom Ireland
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Hijacking Bitcoin
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- Hamin
- 03-29-25
excellent, clear presentation of Bitcoin and the current issues in the crypto industry
Well written. Excellently outlined and even better concieved. The subject deserves more focus and understanding.
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- Amazonfan-Matt
- 02-16-25
Excellent Bitcoin History
This book addressed a lot of questions I independently had arrived at hearing only the predominant bitcoin narrative ever since I first bought Bitcoin in 2021. Very good to get more insights into how bitcoin works and some ways that it doesn't.
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- Alex Younger
- 05-09-24
Amazing!!
I am so glad this story is being told. As an outsider who received most of my information from BTC core proponents, I never knew the massive internal war regarding the block size. It wasn't until I heard Steve Patterson talk about this on a Youtube video just a few years ago that I learned this was even an issue. And until this book I didn't know how deep the battle went. Thanks to Roger and Steve for writing this, and Steve remains one of the best audio book narrators.
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- Robert melluish
- 04-15-24
Freedom Money still exists in BCH
Well done history from pre hashwar to the block dev tax. Written in a way a that even a BTCer can understand ;-) Naration was great especially love the tone vays Jimmy Song convo...
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- Josh
- 01-04-25
So much information I did not know about bitcoin
Absolutely love this book if you’re down the bitcoin rabbit hole, I highly suggest you listen to this book wow packed with information. I did not even know and I’ve been in bed for since 2017
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- Jonathan
- 12-21-24
Great
Great overview. Still don’t fully understand block chain; however, I also am not an expert on economics. So a good primer on core issues around bitcoin as a technology and the sociopolitical ramifications of it.
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- J. Wilcox
- 01-06-25
Totally different than anything else out there….
This is the story of bitcoin from one of the original supporters. You will learn through this story that there has been much more censorship of the truth than you realize.
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- Rob Steele
- 12-30-24
Woah
I just got orange pilled and now I learn BTC ain’t all that. Alas. Crypto is coming but bitcoin ain’t it, not yet anyway.
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- Awesome Pseudonym
- 05-06-24
digital cash is the hijacked goal
The book is entertainingly written and narrated while being informative at the same time. I wish I would have learned about it without the author getting arrested.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-21-24
Great description of how BTC was gelded
The author does a good job revealing the story behind how a sword for human freedom gets blunted and broken. He is fair to the actors, stating the actions taken without assigning motives. What becomes clear is that the result of their collective actions resulted in the capture and conversion of BTC into a lame and debauched creature. Narration of the work is well done.
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