{"product_id":"trustless-block-pilot-9798903833092","title":"Trustless: The Stories That Built (and Broke) Crypto","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn less than two decades, a nine-page paper posted to a cryptography mailing list\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espawned a trillion-dollar ecosystem, mass retail speculation, billion-dollar collapses, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecriminal empires, revolutionary financial primitives, and a global regulatory reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, anonymous founders disappeared. Billion-dollar protocols died in hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCEOs tweeted \"funds are safe\" while the money was already gone. And millions of ordinary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople - developers, traders, believers, gamblers - watched their screens as fortunes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere made and destroyed in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about whether crypto is good or bad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a history - told through the people who built it, the systems that broke, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the patterns that keep repeating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery chapter follows a real story: a founder, a protocol, a collapse, a breakthrough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe facts are public. The quotes are real. The timelines are documented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat this book adds is the thread that connects them - the arc from a whitepaper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon a mailing list to a multi-trillion-dollar question that governments, banks, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand builders are still trying to answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of what they built, what broke, and what survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Block Pilot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798903833092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e 0xblockpilot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d","brand":"Block Pilot","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50593505247487,"sku":"9798903833092","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trustless-block-pilot-9798903833092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}