The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto

A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto

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<b>A “highly entertaining” (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin’s creator and a deep dive into crypto’s utopian origin story—from <i>The New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Billionaire’s Vinegar</i></b><br><br><b>“Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.”—James Patterson</b><br><br><b>“Superb.”—David Grann, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Wager</i>, <i>Killers of the Flower Moon</i>, and <i>The Lost City of Z<br><br></i>A <i>NEW YORK POST</i> BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br>In October 2008, someone going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto posted a white paper outlining “a peer-to-peer electronic cash system” called Bitcoin to an arcane listserv populated by Cypherpunks. No one in the community had heard of Nakamoto, and just as people were starting to wonder who he was, he vanished. As the years passed, and the scope of Nakamoto’s achievement became clear, the truth of his identity grew into the greatest unsolved mystery of our time.<br><br><i>The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto</i> traces Benjamin Wallace’s attempt to unmask the figure behind the currency and the world it wrought. Nakamoto’s Bitcoin at first seemed destined to fulfill the dreams of fringe 1990s utopians for a currency set free from governments and big banks. Yet after he disappeared, his creation took on a strange new life in the financial markets, where rampant speculation fueled a vision of crypto as a potential windfall, inviting charlatans and scammers and opening a vast gulf between Bitcoin’s idealistic origins and its troubled reputation.<br><br>But who was Nakamoto? Whoever he was could rightly claim to have invented one of the most important technologies of the new century. And Nakamoto was a billionaire—his Bitcoin wallet held an untouched eleven-figure fortune waiting to be claimed.<br><br>With the same propulsive-narrative flair that made his <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Billionaire’s Vineg

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EAN

9798217087105

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

232 x 153 x 28 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US