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Have you, like the rest of the world, speculated as to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, anonymous creator of Bitcoin? The world's first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin went online in 2009 and has since revolutionized our concepts of currency and money. Not supported by any government or central bank, completely electronic, Bitcoin…
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The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne offers an unbiased, first-hand view of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous architect behind the world's largest peer-to-peer system. As a former distributed systems researcher, I was fascinated by Satoshi's technical proficiency and cryptographic genius.
Champagne meticulously curated all of Nakamoto's publicly available writings, from emails to forum posts, presented in chronological order, providing an unparalleled window into the mind of a polymath in computer science, systems theory, cryptography, and even economics theory and community management.
A warning: the book is very technical at times, and some parts will get boring for a non-technical reader…
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