Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper
New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper tells the definitive story of the brilliant misfits, surprising successes, and notorious failures who have transformed bitcoin in just a few short years from an idea passed around an obscure internet mailing list into a multibillion-dollar industry that is reshaping the global economy.
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Jim's Review
Popper is a New York Times reporter, not a crypto evangelist, and the even-handed reporting is what makes this book hold up. He starts in 2009 with a handful of cypherpunks and ends around the Silk Road collapse, covering Hal Finney, the Winklevoss twins, Mt. Gox, Charlie Shrem, and Satoshi himself. The "who" of early Bitcoin, told as narrative non-fiction. Bitcoin Billionaires (Mezrich) tells the same era as a Hollywood movie; this is the journalist's version. Both are entertaining; this one is more trustworthy. Five worms. The best Bitcoin book if you prefer human stories over economic theory.
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