{"product_id":"digital-gold-bitcoin-and-the-inside-story-of-the-misfits-and-millionaires-trying-to-reinvent-money-isbn-9780062362490","title":"Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Review Editor’s Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigital Gold\u003c\/em\u003e is \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e reporter Nathaniel Popper’s brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. 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