- 1. Fear & Greed Index drops to 23, Extreme Fear grips markets.
- 2. Bitcoin holds $74,073 after 0.9% dip on April 15, 2026.
- 3. Four biographies profile pioneers like Buterin and Armstrong.
Crypto biographies draw readers as the Fear & Greed Index hits 23 on April 15, 2026. Bitcoin trades at $74,073, down 0.9% per CoinGecko. These four books humanize the pioneers who built blockchain finance.
Vitalik Buterin stares at his screen in 2013. Ethereum's whitepaper takes shape. Extreme Fear today echoes those early doubts.
Fear at 23 Spotlights Pioneer Stories
The Fear & Greed Index reads 23, signaling Extreme Fear. Ethereum drops 2.8% to $2,325.41. BNB falls 0.5% to $614.69.
Traders panic. Yet biographies remind us: pioneers thrived in worse.
Hal Finney receives Satoshi's first Bitcoin transaction. Their resolve forged crypto.
Digital Gold: Bitcoin's Garage Coders
Nathaniel Popper's Digital Gold (2015) profiles Bitcoin's birth. Hal Finney tests the code. Ross Ulbricht runs Silk Road.
Satoshi Nakamoto vanishes. Mt. Gox crumbles. Miners secure the network amid chaos.
Popper shows ideology clashing with reality. Peer-to-peer finance challenges banks. Today's $74,073 BTC price traces those risks.
The Infinite Machine: Vitalik's Ethereum Quest
Camila Russo's The Infinite Machine (2019) centers Vitalik Buterin. At 19, he pens Ethereum's whitepaper.
Developers rally. The DAO hack drains $50 million. The community forks the chain.
Russo details smart contracts and ERC-20 tokens like USDT at $1.00. Ethereum's $2,325.41 price powers DeFi today.
Buterin's persistence births decentralized apps.
Kings of Crypto: Armstrong Builds Coinbase
Jeff John Roberts' Kings of Crypto follows Brian Armstrong. He quits Airbnb in 2012 to launch Coinbase.
Regulators circle. SEC probes mount. Armstrong scales secure wallets.
The exchange lists publicly. Volumes hit billions. BNB's $614.69 reflects rivals like Binance, but Coinbase endures.
Armstrong hires amid bear markets. Compliance meets innovation.
Bitcoin Billionaires: Winklevoss Twins Bet Big
Ben Mezrich's Bitcoin Billionaires tracks Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. They buy 120,000 BTC after Facebook's settlement.
Wall Street scoffs. They launch Gemini. Mining farms rise.
ETFs follow. Institutions pour in. Bitcoin hits $74,073.
Twins prove vision beats volatility.
Stories Counter Fear, Fuel Recovery
These crypto biographies complement CZ's Binance tale. Popper, Russo, Roberts, and Mezrich spotlight coders and founders.
Consensus algorithms prevent double-spends. DeFi cuts intermediaries.
Bitcoin protocol stands since 2009. Ethereum upgrades roll on.
Past cycles recovered from worse. Fear at 23 precedes rallies above 50.
