Yes!

Every story has one hero.

Mine is a Japanese software engineer who works in SF.

Yes. You can buy it with Lightning.

Money

It’s that thing you don’t have enough of, that Elon Musk has too much of, and that looks suspiciously like a piece of cotton paper that we all just agreed to not treat like a napkin.

My book Birth of Bitcoin is now available to preorder. Buy it with Bitcoin. No paper money!

If I end up writing the best bitcoin book of all time, it will have only been possible because I was truly obsessed with the story of Satoshi Nakamoto - the introverted nerd who single handedly dealt bankers their biggest blow since Napoleon.

I will sell the first 100 copies of my book only via bitcoin.

Was Satoshi's "rebellion" the real plan all along? Was he not a rebel, but a pawn in a much, much larger and more terrifying game?

Birth of Bitcoin is not just “yet another bitcoin book.”

I have constructed a lens. A lens that, once you look through it, changes the way you see the world. It organizes history, politics, and technology into a single, breathtaking, and terrifying picture.

Birth of Bitcoin doesn’t just entertain you. It rewires your brain.

In my book you won’t find Satoshi Nakamoto with a Rubik’s cube in hand.

I hate that trope where writers show a character with a Rubik’s cube to show that he is intelligent.

That’s lazy and lame writing. That’s a dumb man’s idea of what an intelligent man looks like.

In my book you see how a real intelligent man thinks and solves difficult problems. His entire journey is about learning to act in the face of overwhelming odds.

Satoshi doesn't create Bitcoin in a single flash of brilliance; he does it piece by agonizing piece, fueled by one failure, one loss, one small success at a time.

I find “strong independent girl boss babes” to be utterly repulsive.

In my book Satoshi’s girlfriend is a soft, cute, girly girl with teen angst.

A simple finance book would be “nerdy guy invents digital money.” Boring.

A simple occult thriller would be “ancient evil threatens world.” Generic.

That’s why I’m writing a book where Satoshi Nakamoto invents Bitcoin and then fights cosmic evil.

My book’s Act I is Satoshi finding out that our financial system is rigged for elites.

Act II is him building Bitcoin.

Act III has nothing to do with Bitcoin.

Instead at the end he fights the Babylonian cult which controls our financial system and is about to sacrifice Satoshi’s pregnant girlfriend for their ritual.

Today I wondered whether this is a weakness of my book. However upon some reflection I realized that my original instinct is right.

If Satoshi used Bitcoin or hacking to defeat Lucifer in Act III that would be ridiculous.

This isn’t a story where Bitcoin directly defeats the cult—it’s where the act of creating Bitcoin transforms Satoshi into someone capable of fighting the cult.

Satoshi from Act I would never have been capable of fighting Lucifer. The entire story is his arc of becoming the Satoshi Nakamoto who sacrificed himself for humanity.