Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption

by Ben Mezrich

there was no way of guaranteeing they wouldn’t find their way onto the internet, a medium written in pen, not pencil.

the people who were most likely to fight Bitcoin were those who had the most to lose by its adoption. Which meant all the middlemen, rent seekers, and toll collectors of the legacy financial world—the banks, money transmitters, money remitters, credit card companies, and governments.