Is Goldman Sachs Flirting with Bitcoin, or the Blockchain?

Is Goldman Sachs Flirting with Bitcoin, or the Blockchain?

The New York Timestechnology and finance reporter Nathaniel Popper's new book "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the inside story of the misfits and millionaires trying to reinvent money" has been praised as one of the best Bitcoin books to date. Popper tells the story of Bitcoin from its geeky, libertarian early days to the beginnings of the current phase....


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