Brave but doomed attempt to follow the money

Digital Gold represents the effort by New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper to tell the story and history of Bitcoin. His subject matter isn’t an easy one to grasp.

Even for tech geeks, understanding Bitcoin takes effort – it's an innovative payment network, essentially a new form of money, invented as recently as 2008, which allows users to transact directly with each other without the need for a middleman. The possibilities for the bitcoin ...