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

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.

 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 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.

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