What about Roger Ver's book Hijacking Bitcoin?

Best selling Amazon Bitcoin book Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver with Steve Patterson.

"Hijacking Bitcoin" is a book by "Bitcoin Jesus" & billionaire crypto investor Roger Ver, co-authored by academic & long time Bitcoiner Steve Patterson. Note that although Roger has at times been very influential in the BCH community, he did not create BCH, although that's a common piece of propaganda.

Hijacking Bitcoin begins with an explanation of the basic economic design & principles of Bitcoin laid out by its founder Satoshi Nakamoto. These foundations are followed by a thorough exposé of the ways the "small blockers" hijacked Bitcoin to steal the "Bitcoin" brand, BTC exchange ticker, code repository & public attention in The Blocksize War using censorship, propaganda, DDoS cyber attacks & more. The creation & subsequent trials of "big block" Bitcon Cash and turmoil during 2018 - 2020 around Bitcoin SV (BSV) & eCash (XEC) are explained plus some final thoughts on where the cryptocurrency industry stands as of 2024.

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At publication in April 2024, the BTC community were incensed that Hijacking Bitcoin was simply big blocker propaganda. However, by September 2025, the BTC community was already months deep in its own civil war between "bad-actor Bitcoin Core Spammers" & "Knots filterooors" as one segment of the community concluded that actually there was interference & bad actors among their ranks (although the origins, timeline & motivations remain disputed). Listeners interested in these developments can start with Episode 151 of the Podcast investigating the struggles of Bitcoin Mechanic as he comes to grips with the reality of the Hijacking, exhaustively predicted & documented step-by-step by The Bitcoin Cash Podcast.

Tough Youtube upload schedule for Bitcoin Mechanic. Cope affects us all.

Interestingly, very little of the book touches upon the authors' personal experiences or opinions.

Upon its release, Hijacking Bitcoin generated titanic public interest. Given the context of enormous propaganda & Roger's central involvement in the related events, reading this book was the first time many people (including long time cryptocurrency advocates) heard the story of The Blocksize War from the censorship-suppressed side. Until Hijacking Bitcoin, public perception of Bitcoin's controversial history (and Roger Ver himself) had been largely set by Jonathan Bier's "The Blocksize War" - written from the side of the victorious "small blockers". This was a shock to the industry & thoroughly vindicating for Roger Ver & the Bitcoin Cash community. As an article from cryptocurrency news site Blockworks proclaimed - "Roger Ver was right about Bitcoin".

Blockworks article reviewing Hijacking Bitcoin

A small extract of this article truly shows how impactful the book was on its reviewer:

With all of that in mind — and despite the fact that Ver sent me about $10 in Bitcoin Cash after an interview (hence the Bitcoin Jesus name) — I set out to read his new book, Hijacking Bitcoin, with the hunch that this would be my first book review pan.

I couldn’t have been more wrong. In fact, after finishing Hijacking Bitcoin, my opinion now stands that Bitcoin truly was hijacked, and Ver really was the subject of what has now been an almost decade-long smear campaign.

But even if you remove every bit of conjecture that Ver includes in his history of Bitcoin’s early development, it remains a damning indictment of the turmoil and nastiness that plagued the community after Satoshi Nakamoto took his permanent step back.

The book is highly recommended. A copy can be purchased at HijackingBitcoin.com.