In October 2008, Lehman Brothers had just collapsed. The Federal Reserve was orchestrating unprecedented bailouts. Into this chaos, someone calling himself Satoshi Nakamoto dropped a nine-page paper onto an obscure cryptography mailing list. His proposal: a "peer-to-peer electronic cash system" that would operate beyond government control. Three months …
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