http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/books/review/nathaniel-poppers-digital-gold-looks-at-bitcoin.html?ref=books&_r=0 Quote: The most poignant moment in the book comes when Popper contrasts a conference for the more ideologically minded Bitcoiners at a racetrack on the outskirts of Austin, where Ulbricht grew up, with the gathering of the rich and powerful at the South by Southwest festival, where Ulbricht’s mother is politely dismissed as she pleads for funds to help defray her son’s legal costs. It was an “unhappy reminder of a side of Bitcoin” that its new adherents “wanted to put behind them,” Popper writes. And as he notes, “If this was the new world, it didn’t seem all that different from the old one ­ at least not yet.” Nor can “Digital Gold” be a tale with a satisfying ending, because the future of Bitcoin is unknowable right now. As the venture capitalist Barry Silbert says at a Goldman Sachs conference, Bitcoin “is either going to change everything, or nothing.” But if Bitcoin doesn’t change every­thing, people will keep trying to find something that will, and so Popper’s book stands as necessary reading, and very intriguing at that, regardless of the eventual fate of his subject. Unquote.