The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto

A “highly entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin’s creator and a deep dive into crypto’s utopian origin story—from The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire’s Vinegar

“Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.”—James Patterson

“Superb.”—David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Lost City of Z

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,… Keep Reading