20-Year Tech Veteran Spent 15,000 Hours Trying to Kill Bitcoin, What Did He Find?

Jeff Booth spent about 15,000 hours trying to kill Bitcoin. He failed. The Canadian entrepreneur says the attempt left him more convinced the network cannot be broken.

Booth is a founding partner at Ego Death Capital and a director at Core Scientific. He wrote the 2020 book The Price of Tomorrow. His conclusion is that he was the weak link, not the code.

Why a 20-Year Tech Veteran Set Out to Kill Bitcoin

Booth did not start as a believer. He co-founded the online building supplier BuildDirect in 1999 and ran it for 18 years. When his book landed in January 2020, Bitcoin (BTC) got a single paragraph.

The problem was not the math. It was the power he expected to come after it. At that stage he doubted the network could stay decentralized and secure against a determined state.

So he tried to break it. He ran a node. He modeled the attacks a government, a rival, or a large miner would use.

"I spent about 15,000 hours trying to say, 'How do I kill Bitcoin? What does that look like?'" Booth said in an interview with the Wolf of All Streets, Scott Melker.

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