Hijacking Bitcoin

<p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>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. <em>Hijacking Bitcoin</em> destroys the most popular narratives that surround Bitcoin and sets the historical record straight. </p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>From the inside flap:</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Bitcoin has been captured and changed for the worse. That's the undeniable conclusion of <em>Hijacking Bitcoin</em>. Chocked full of history and inconvenient truths this book goes on a myth-busting rampage against the most popular narratives that surround BTC. </p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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 expos�� of the corruption propaganda and centralization of power in Bitcoin.</p>