Download or read book The Crypto Pursuit written by KryptoKid and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As bitcoin's meteoric rise minted millionaires overnight, one stolen fortune is pursued with a bloody passion. After robbing a dark net marketplace for over $2.5 million worth of bitcoin in 2014, Aaron Aldridge sees an opportunity to uplift his family from poverty. He cashes out on part of the crypto hoard and then saves the rest by transcribing the wallet's private key onto his favorite vinyl record in invisible ink. Yet when the operator of the site retaliates, Aaron races home to find his mother killed and the FBI awaiting to arrest him for an unrelated crime. Sent off to federal prison, the record ultimately disappears, no one knowing it's true value. Trying to process the consequences of his greed while in prison, he almost forgets about the record until a surge of interest pushes bitcoin's value to a record high, skyrocketing the wallet's value above $100 million. Determined to do something positive with the money, Aaron is released from prison and embarks on a pursuit for the record-yet he's far from alone.

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Download or read book The Book of Crypto written by Henri Arslanian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough overview of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and digital assets and their impact on the future of money and finance. It provides a 360-degree practical, concise, and engaging overview of all the topics that one interested about digital assets needs to know including how Bitcoin and Ethereum work, an overview of the most important digital assets in the market, and deep dives into the various types of digital assets including cryptocurrencies, stable coins, CBDCs, utility tokens, security tokens, NFTs, and many others. The book also covers all the essentials including DeFi, crypto mining, crypto regulations, crypto investors, crypto exchanges, and other ecosystem players as well as some of the latest global crypto trends from Web 3.0 and the Metaverse to DAOs and quantum computing. Written by a leading industry expert and thought leader who advises some of the leading organisations in the digital assets space globally, this book is ideal for anyone looking to acquire a solid foundational knowledge base of this fast-growing field and understand its potential impact on the future of money.

Download or read book The Pursuit of Heresy written by Elisheva Carlebach and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Moses Hagiz, one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, devoted his career to restoring rabbinic authority. His most prominent talent was as a polemicist, and he campaigned ceaselessly against Jewish heresy in an attempt to unify the rabbinate. During Hagiz's lifetime there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority, which the author argues was the result of migration and assimilation.

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