Ten years ago, an eighteen-year-old sailor had one drink too many in a karaoke bar in Nagoya ? and became part-owner of a thousand bitcoins he wouldn't even remember by morning.

Six months later, his friend would be killed for that mistake.

Steven held his share for a decade ? through isolation, paranoia, and a vow never to sell. When the price finally reaches what his dead friend once promised, it isn't luck waiting on his doorstep, but the yakuza, demanding an old debt ? and the only way to pay honestly means risking everything he's built: the company, the family, himself.

The Price of Bitcoin is a crypto-thriller written in the language of people who lived through the Mt. Gox collapse, the halvings, and HODL ? not as a meme, but as a way of life. A novel about how faith and fear look identical from the outside, and only time reveals the difference.