Digital gold: the incredible story of bitcoin, or how idealists and businessmen reinvent money

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Digital gold: the incredible story of bitcoin, or how idealists and businessmen reinvent money

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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and financial technology that breaks many conventional wisdom about money and its role in society. Many are baffled by the very idea of ​​a digital currency, which is not backed by a powerful state or the Central Bank and which is supported jointly by all its users. But that hasn't stopped Bitcoin from growing into a technological phenomenon with millions of supporters and a capitalization of billions of dollars. Its fans consider Bitcoin the most important invention of mankind, comparing it to the Internet in its potential impact on society. This book tells the incredible story of how an idea, initially interesting only to a small group of enthusiasts, gradually attracted the attention of the whole world. A story in which the most unexpected characters play an important role: a Finnish student; Argentine millionaire; Chinese entrepreneur; creator of Netscape; failed physicist turned online drug lord; the playboy twins who sued the head of Facebook; venture capital sharks; prosecutors and special agents; US senators and heads of the world's largest banks. Of course, the story could not ignore the mysterious founding father of Bitcoin, who went by the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto”. Is he really as anonymous and elusive as it seems to the general public? Bitcoin enthusiasts around the world, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, believe in the ability of this fully peer-to-peer financial system to become the globally recognized money of the digital age. At the very least, the meteoric rise of cryptocurrencies raises serious questions about what money really is, how it works now, and how it will need to change to meet the needs of society in the future.

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Publication language: Russian

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