Digital Gold

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**Digital Gold**, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and Shortlisted for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, charts Bitcoin's dramatic rise. New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper explores the landmark digital money and the global social movement it spawned, envisioning a financial system free from banks and governments. Through the captivating stories of an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and its elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, Popper reveals Bitcoin's journey from a ridiculed concept to a multi-billion-dollar technology with profound implications—creating untold riches for some, and prison terms for others.