Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

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Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Harper; 1St Edition edition (May 19, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062362496
ISBN-13: 978-0062362490

Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology, has
spawned a global social movement with utopian ambitions. The notion of
a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world,
has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from
growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the
hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new
idea since the creation of the Internet.

Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a
financial system free from banks and governments, and a new global
currency for the digital age. An unusual tale of group invention,
Digital Gold tells the story of the colorful characters who have built
Bitcoin, including a Finnish college student; an Argentinian
millionaire; a Chinese entrepreneur; Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss;
Bitcoin’s elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto; and the founder of the
Silk Road online drug market, Ross Ulbricht.

With Digital Gold, New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper offers a
brilliant and engrossing account of this new technology. At each step
of the way, Bitcoin has provided one of the most fascinating tests of
how money works, who benefits from it, and what it might look like in
the future.