The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto (Crown)
Friday, 04 April 2025

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. This book catalogs Benjamin Wallace's attempt over 15 years to unmask the figure behind the currency and the world it wrought. Tracking leads from London to Oslo to Los Angeles, from coastal Australia to the Arizona desert, Wallace 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.

 

Author: Benjamin Wallace
Publisher: Crown
Date: March 2025
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-0593594025
Print: 0593594029
Kindle: B0D7G9WZ5Q
Audience: General
Level: Introductory
Category: General interest

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