The mysterious Mr. Nakamoto : a fifteen-year quest to unmask the secret genius behind crypto / Benjamin Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Benjamin, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bitcoin--History.

Bitcoin.

Cryptocurrencies--History.

Cryptocurrencies.

Nakamoto, Satoshi.

Physical Description:

viii, 342 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

15 year quest to unmask the secret genius behind crypto

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, [2025]

Summary:

"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. ... 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. 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. ... Tracking leads from London to Oslo to Los Angeles, from coastal Australia to the Arizona desert, he takes readers through a rogues' gallery tour of Nakamoto suspects--from benevolent geniuses like cryptographer Hal Finney to difficult ones like a reclusive polymath known to his followers only as Jim; from the mercurial Australian Craig Wright, who claims to be Nakamoto, to a secret team at the National Security Agency."--Jacket.

Contents:

It's Him

A Straight-up Legend

Pretend Internet Money

Shiny Pony

Mathematicians with Guns

Wei

Boom Boom

An Evening of Pseudonymous Socializing

Mr. Rogers

Always Look on the Bright Side

The Pin, Not the Bubble

Satoshi Studies

Anonymous

A Spectacular Display of Hindsight

Sniffing Bronze

Slow, Not Furious

Hungarian Brainstorming

"My Father Is an Honest Guy"

Bag of Words

"How Deep Are You?"

Craig

Dave

A Treacherous Exercise

The Satoshi Checklist

An Imperfect Human Being

Gavin's Favorite Number

A Little Bit of Controversy for Fun

A Series of Screams

More of a Risk than a Boon

Scott and Stuart

"Do You Have a Salad Spinner?"

Anything Is a Legitimate Area of Investigation

Dj Sun Love

Obviousness Fatigue

Freedom of Information

Negative Space

Eat Sleep Hodl Repeat

Alistair

Meh

Brian

Bacula

I Support the Current Thing

His Excellency

Florian

Numero Uno

Occam's Razor

Valley Boy

Vincent Adultman

A New Life Form.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-340).

Other Format:

Online version: Wallace, Benjamin, 1968- Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto

ISBN:

9780593594025

0593594029

OCLC:

1442322981

Publisher Number:

90101755096