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A New York Times technology and business reporter graphs the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the attractive personalities who are trying to create a new global money for the Internet age. Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's amazing and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a worldwide social movement. The notion of a new money, looked after by the personal computers of users across the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that hasn't halted it from growing into a technology worthwhile billions of us dollars, supported by the hordes of supporters who have come to view it as the most important new idea because the creation of the Internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires start to see the potential for a economic climate free from banks and governments. More than just a tech industry novelty, Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society's most basic institutions. An unusual story of group technology, Digital Gold graphs the rise of the Bitcoin technology through the eye of the movement's brilliant central characters, including a British anarchist, an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese businessman, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin's elusive originator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already Bitcoin has resulted in untold riches for some and prison conditions for others.
