Book Review: Digital Gold is an Invaluable Page-Turner
Title: Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the inside story of the misfits and millionaires trying to reinvent money. Author: Nathaniel Popper. Publication date: 19th May 2015. Summary: Remember the headlines that first mentioned bitcoin, Mt. Gox, the Silk Road and Bitcoin Jesus? Those were fleeting peaks on the events unfolding behind closed doors in the development of bitcoin. Digital Gold is your backstage pass to those events. It's a compelling and extensive narrative that gives a reader a personal look at the heroes and villains of bitcoin's brief history. Digital Gold presents the most....
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Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of our biggest stories of the week on CCN. This week, we discovered that several gold companies have shown an interest in Bitcoin, that the Mt. Gox saga still isn't over, that Andreas Antonopoulos has left the Bitcoin Foundation, and more. Check out this week's Bitcoin News in Review after the break. Gold Companies are Unsurprisingly Interested in Bitcoin. Is bitcoin the new gold? Bitcoin and gold share many similarities. They are both inherently limited, have to be "mined", are deflationary, and can act as a store of....
The notion of Bitcoin as digital gold is as old as the decentralized crypto-currency itself. Even in original writings, Bitcoin creator(s) Satoshi Nakamoto wrote about how he intended to design a digital gold. For instance, the mining of Bitcoin – which entails computer processes – was intended to mimic the mining of gold. That there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins in existence, as well, is a design intended to mimic gold. Among the biggest inspirations for Bitcoin is Nick Szabo, the creator of the original bit gold. Nathaniel Popper wrote a book entitled Digital Gold about Bitcoin....
Two Consensus 2015 speakers, Nathaniel Popper and Wences Casares, are in the spotlight this week, mainly because of Popper's new book. We're also announcing the addition of Hernán Botbol, a co-founder of the hugely popular Argentinian social network, Taringa! Digital Gold, the book that takes a long, unflinching look at the individuals behind the rise of bitcoin, hit the shelves this week. We published an extract from Digital Gold detailing the inner workings of Charlie Shrem's BitInstant, which was a high-flying bitcoin startup with funding from the Winklevoss twins - until it all came....