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  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • Review: The Devil Takes Bitcoin, a wild history of Mt. Gox and Silk Road
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 14, 2025
    Jake Adelstein’s The Devil Takes Bitcoin delves into the wild history of Silk Road and the Mt. Gox collapse and the hunt for the real hacker. If youve ever seen Jake Adelsteins prior work, such as The Last Yakuza or watched the HBO drama Tokyo Vice, you might expect his latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, to be a gritty expos of Bitcoins criminal underbelly. And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, and the crackdown on the darknet marketplace Silk Road showing what happens when good intentions, money and a flawed justice system collide.  But its the message that sets it apart. Adelstein argues its this tragicomic series of events that ultimately propelled Bitcoin to where it is today similar to how the porn industry secretly drove the rise of the internet. Read more
  • UK moves to allow asset managers to use blockchain for fund tokenization
    Cointelegraph.com - 12:57 Oct 14, 2025
    The FCA has outlined a roadmap to help asset managers adopt blockchain and tokenization, aiming to boost efficiency and competition. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) revealed a roadmap to help asset managers adopt blockchain technology for fund tokenization. In a Tuesday announcement, the regulator said the initiative aims to “provide firms with additional clarity” to adopt tokenization and “drive innovation and growth in asset management.” “Tokenization has the potential to drive fundamental changes in asset management, with benefits for the industry and consumers,” said Simon Walls, executive director of markets at the FCA. “There are many things that firms can do under our existing rules and more that become possible with the changes we propose enacting now,” he added. Read more
  • S&P Global taps Chainlink to rate stablecoins’ ability to retain peg
    Cointelegraph.com - 12:30 Oct 14, 2025
    S&P Global Ratings and Chainlink have partnered to provide onchain stablecoin risk profiles for TradFi players looking to enter or expand into the $300 billion market. S&P Global Ratings has partnered with blockchain oracle provider Chainlink to give financial institutions onchain access to its new stablecoin stability assessments, which rate each stablecoin by how well it maintains its peg. The Stablecoin Stability Assessments (SSAs) launched on the Ethereum layer-2 network Base on Tuesday, with potential to expand to other blockchains, subject to market demand and client feedback, S&P Global and Chainlink said in a statement seen by Cointelegraph.  “As institutional adoption of digital assets accelerates, the ability to access real-time risk assessments directly within blockchain infrastructure has become crucial for market participants.” Read more
  • Bhutan migrates its national ID system to Ethereum
    Cointelegraph.com - 00:11 Oct 14, 2025
    The Kingdom of Bhutan has tapped Ethereum to store the national identities of its roughly 800,000 citizens, leveraging the network’s immutability and decentralization. The South Asian nation of Bhutan is migrating its self-sovereign ID system to Ethereum from Polygon, allowing its nearly 800,000 residents to verify their identities and access government services. The integration with Ethereum has been completed, while the migration of all resident credentials is expected to finish by the first quarter of 2026, according to Ethereum Foundation President Aya Miyaguchi, who joined Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin at the launch ceremony with Bhutan’s prime minister, Tshering Tobgay, and crown prince, Jigme Namgyel Wangchuk. “It’s deeply inspiring to see a nation commit to empowering its citizens with self-sovereign identity,” Miyaguchi posted to X on Monday, adding that the Ethereum integration was a world-first.  Read more

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