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How money got free : Bitcoin and the fight for the future of finance

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After ignoring it for the first few years of its existence, major investors-venture-capital firms, Goldman Sachs, the New York Stock Exchange, and billionaires like Richard Branson and Peter Thiel-have now decided to risk more than 1 billion of investment capital on digital-currency businesses. How did an invention that, a few years ago, wasn't taken seriously by anyone, come to be praised by Bill Gates as ""better than currency""?Bitcoin was founded on a renegade ideology by a bunch of outlaws: cryptographers, hackers, Free Staters, ex-cons and drug dealers, teenage futurists and entrepreneur.

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How money got free : Bitcoin and the fight for the future of finance, Brian Patrick Eha

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2017
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Title
How money got free : Bitcoin and the fight for the future of finance
Language
English
Released
2017
Format
Hardcover
Pages
486
ISBN10
178074658x
ISBN13
9781780746586
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After ignoring it for the first few years of its existence, major investors-venture-capital firms, Goldman Sachs, the New York Stock Exchange, and billionaires like Richard Branson and Peter Thiel-have now decided to risk more than 1 billion of investment capital on digital-currency businesses. How did an invention that, a few years ago, wasn't taken seriously by anyone, come to be praised by Bill Gates as ""better than currency""?Bitcoin was founded on a renegade ideology by a bunch of outlaws: cryptographers, hackers, Free Staters, ex-cons and drug dealers, teenage futurists and entrepreneur.