The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin (Benjamin Wallace/Wired)
Benjamin Wallace / Wired:
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin — In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list’s veterans had heard of him, and what little information could be gleaned was murky and contradictory.
