Cryptocurrency: Digital Gold - Story of Those Reinventing Money (Book)

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Digital Gold - Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and
Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
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A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic
rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to
create a new global money for the Internet age.

Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's brilliant
and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and
financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.

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. More than just a tech industry fad,
Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society's most basic
institutions.

An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold charts the rise of
the Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the movement's colorful
central characters, including a British anarchist, an Argentinian
millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and
Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already Bitcoin has led
to untold riches for some and prison terms for others.