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Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

Jeff John Roberts
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Summary

Jeff John Roberts's account of Coinbase's rise from a San Francisco startup through the 2018 crypto crash to its 2021 Wall Street listing, told from inside the race with regulators, rivals, and the wild markets around it.

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The best book-length record of the Coinbase playbook: what it took to make a compliant, institutional-grade company out of an anarchic asset class — and why the boring path won.

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