Hijacking Bitcoin

The Hidden History of BTC

By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker - foreword

Narrated by: Steve Patterson

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.

From the inside flap:

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.

©2024 Roger Ver (P)2024 Roger Ver

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.

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.

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...

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

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.