Digital Gold

Nathaniel Popper is a New York Times reporter. He formerly worked at the Los Angeles Times and the Forward. Nathaniel was born in Pittsburgh and attended Harvard College.

A New York Times technology and business writer follows Bitcoin's meteoric development and the fascinating people working to create a new global currency for the Internet age.

Digital Gold is Nathaniel Popper's insightful and enthralling history of Bitcoin, the seminal digital currency and financial technology that created a global social movement. The book is regarded as one of the best books on cryptocurrency.

Many jokes have been made about the idea of a new currency maintained by the computers of users all over the world, but that hasn't stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by hordes of followers who have come to regard it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. From Beijing to Buenos Aires, believers see the promise for a financial system free of banks and governments. Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society's most basic institutions, making it more than just a tech sector fad.

Digital Gold is an unusual story of group invention that follows the rise of 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 enigmatic creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin has already resulted in unimaginable riches for some and prison sentences for others.

Author: Nathaniel Popper

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