Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin

Popper

ISBN 10: 0241180619 / ISBN 13: 9780241180617

Published by Allen Lane, UK, 2015

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An excellent copy, with a lengthy inscription inside the front by a previous owner, but otherwise clean and unmarked throughout, seemingly barely read with page edges crisp, no notable signs of wear. Covers firm and secure, and dust jacket complete, but with some small nicks along the top edge repaired and reinforced with conservation tape. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 165 x 245 mm. 262. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; Britain/UK; Modern; ISBN: 0241180619. ISBN/EAN: 9780241180617. Inventory No: 44683.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin
• Publisher: Allen Lane, UK
• Publication Date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0241180619
• ISBN 13: 9780241180617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2015.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business, Finance & Marketing

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Synopsis

New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR

A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.

Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper’s brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.

The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments. More than just a tech industry fad, Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society’s most basic institutions.

An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold charts the rise of the 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 elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already, Bitcoin has led to untold riches for some, and prison terms for others.

About the Author

Nathaniel Popper is a reporter at The New York Times. Before joining The Times, he worked at the Los Angeles Times and the Forward. Nathaniel grew up in Pittsburgh and is a graduate of Harvard College. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.