
Faketoshi: 1
Fraud, Lies and the Battle for Bitcoin's Soul (Volume 1)
Tulip Publishing
Published on 1. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-0684755-1-1 (ISBN)
Description
In 2011, two years after the launch of Bitcoin, its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, quietly departed the scene. Many thought Satoshi was gone for good, but in 2016, he returned, telling a shocking story: far from leaving on his terms, he had been forced out, and now he was back to reclaim what was rightfully his.
Except this wasn't Satoshi Nakamoto. This was an Australian IT security consultant called Craig Wright.
And he was a complete fraud.
Wright's epic ten-year Satoshi hoax, which was supposed to net him and his backers billions of dollars but ended up costing them a small fortune and their reputations, began with a simple premise: to use Bitcoin to con the Australian Taxation Office out of millions of dollars.
In this opening book of the 'Faketoshi' trilogy, Mark Hunter and Arthur van Pelt reveal the skulduggery, deception and systematic fraud Craig Wright perpetrated on institutions, colleagues and friends alike in pursuit of riches and how it all led directly to his biggest lie of all.
If you thought The Missing Cryptoqueen was as crazy as crypto could get... think again.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
1 black and white publisher logo, 1 black and white graph
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0684755-1-1 (9781068475511)
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Persons
Mark Hunter is an author and ghostwriter with twenty years of experience in the literary world. He has ghostwritten for a very eclectic range of clients, from members of the Kuwaiti royal family to self-made millionaires, and has worked as a writing workshop leader in British theatres. He became interested in the cryptocurrency world in 2017 and has been writing for blockchain projects and crypto news websites ever since. In 2023, he published Ultimate Catastrophe: How MtGox Lost Half a Billion Dollars and Nearly Killed Bitcoin, the first book covering the 2014 collapse of Bitcoin exchange MtGox. Mark lives in Harrogate, England, with his wife and two children.