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Digital Gold: The Incredible Story of Bitcoin, or How Idealists and Businessmen Are Reinventing Money

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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and financial technology that breaks many conventional ideas about money and its role in society. Many people are baffled by the very idea of a digital currency that is not backed by a powerful government or central bank and is supported jointly by all its users. But that hasn't stopped Bitcoin from growing into a technological phenomenon with millions of supporters and billions of dollars in capitalization. Its fans consider Bitcoin to be humanity's most important invention, comparing it to the Internet in terms of its potential impact on society. This book tells the incredible story of how an idea that initially interested only 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; an Argentinian millionaire; a Chinese entrepreneur; the creator of Netscape; a failed physicist who became an online drug lord; the Playboy twins who sued the head of Facebook; venture capital sharks; prosecutors and special agents; U.S. senators and heads of the world's largest banks. Of course, the narrative could not avoid the mysterious founding father of Bitcoin, who spoke under the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto". Is he really as anonymous and elusive as he 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 rapid ascent of cryptocurrency technology raises serious questions about what money really is, how it works now, and how it will have to change to meet the future needs of society.
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