An Interview with the Bitcoin Book

An Interview with the Bitcoin Book "Digital Gold" Author Nathaniel Popper

New York Times writer Nathaniel Popper is a business correspondent by trade, having previously written for the LA Times in New York before moving onto to the New York Times. "[Discovering Bitcoin] was totally as part of my job," he says. "I found when researching Bitcoin, it was which wave did you get in on. And I got in on the one I think most people did, which was in the spring of 2013." Popper has become the de Facto authority on Bitcoin in the traditional press, covering several major stories as the nascent currency came to light. He's been all over the world investigating....


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