Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
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New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 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 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. Dedication Introduction Part: One Chapter 1: January 10, 2009 Chapter 2: 1997 Chapter 3: May 2009 Chapter 4: April 2010 Chapter 5: July 12, 2010 Chapter 6: September 2010 Chapter 7: March 16, 2011 Chapter 8: June 19, 2011 Chapter 9: July 2011 Chapter 10: September 2011 Chapter 11: November 2011 Part: Two Chapter 12: February 2012 Chapter 13: May 2012 Chapter 14: August 2012 Chapter 15: October 2012 Chapter 16: December 2012 Chapter 17: January 2013 Chapter 18: February 2013 Chapter 19: March 2013 Chapter 20: March 2013 Chapter 21: April 11, 2013 Chapter 22: June 2013 Part: Three Chapter 23: August 2013 Chapter 24: September 30, 2013 Chapter 25: October 2013 Chapter 26: November 18, 2013 Chapter 27: December 7, 2013 Chapter 28: January 20, 2014 Chapter 29: February 2014 Chapter 30: March 6, 2014 Chapter 31: March 21, 2014 Epilogue Technical Appendix Acknowledgments Sources Index About the Author Praise Copyright About the Publisher
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