For readers of Bitcoin Billionaires comes a true tale of Bitcoin boom to bust the true and inside story of fortune and the definitive parable of everything Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain. There is the Bitcoin story of the headlines, but there is a more important one behind them tangled plots sprawling like roots deep underground, entire worlds in which we are just passersby. In Once a Bitcoin Miner, journalist and author Ethan Lou takes readers on a richly told first-person narrative through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild West. From investing in Bitcoin in university to his time writing for Reuters, and beyond 8213 Lou meets the likes of the late Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX and a co-founder of Ethereum, and hangs out in North Korea with Virgil Griffith, the man later arrested for allegedly teaching blockchain to the totalitarian state. Coming of age in the 2008 financial crisis, Lou's generation has a natural affinity with this rebel internet money, this so-called millenni