Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire

My Unlikely Escape from Corporate America

Dan Conway

• Publisher: Zealot Publishing
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781733171724
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Biographies
• Index: Business

"A highly dramatic but lucid introduction to the murky world of cryptocurrency." – Kirkus Reviews

"Five out of Five Stars. Reading this book was nothing short of thrilling." – Manhattan Book Review

At the start of this riveting memoir, Dan Conway is a brash executive in a vast corporation, slogging his way up the ladder while struggling with depression and an addiction he thought he had defeated long ago. As he begins to realize that the mix of nightmarish bureaucracy and his unruly "flip side" have doomed any chance of success, Dan stumbles upon cryptocurrency, tumbling down the rabbit hole to discover a strange, anarchic, but captivating world. He decides to wager everything—his savings, his marriage, his family, his future—on the fledgling crypto, Ether.

In Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire, readers join Dan on a rollicking, harrowing, frequently hilarious journey, including his: struggle to rise through the corporate ranks; battle with addiction and its aftermath; bid to reinvent himself; efforts to hold his marriage and family together; and the costs–and thrills–of risking it all.

"For Conway, crypto was only partly about the money. It was also about finding liberation and salvation." – Forbes

Dan details in a non-technical and non-preachy way how the idea of blockchain-based decentralization has convinced a generation of dreamers, misfits and gamblers to too often bet more than they can afford to lose. He illustrates how public blockchains like Ethereum could disrupt the nature of work itself in the coming years, upending stultifying centralized corporations in favor of "trust machines" and peer-to-peer cooperation. In the process, readers take a thrilling ride with Dan on a turbocharged adventure through crypto, not knowing if he will make history or lose everything he holds dear.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Author’s Note
• Prologue
• Climbing the Ladder
• Deliverance
• Cypherpunks
• Currents
• Coffee and Confusion
• Ethereum, a New Kind of Machine
• Taking the Edge Off
• This is Bad
• A Not-So-Innocent Bystander
• The End?
• Refurbished
• Retirement Porn
• The Edge of a Cliff
• Passage
• Going Rogue
• The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
• Deleted
• Zealot
• A New Year
• Spring Fever
• Financial Emergency
• Summer Dreams and ICO Madness
• Be Careful What You Ask For
• HODL on for Dear Life
• Head Above Water
• Now
• Water Colors
• This is Spinal Tap
• Next
• Acknowledgments