BITCOIN: A 15-Year Quest to Unmask the Mysterious Inventor of Crypto
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LinkedIn. The first time journalist Ben Wallace heard the word bitcoin. Was in the summer. of twenty eleven.
I got a call from an editor at Wired Magazine which I had Written for one time. The editor was looking for someone to write about this newfangled digital currency. But I was an unlikely person to call in that I was kind of a Luddite former English major, not a computer guy, didn't know how to code. But it immediately
Got my attention. Because it was totally new. A new kind of money. That doesn't come along every day. The British pound is 1200 years old. The dollar 230. And Bitcoin wasn't just new. It was different.
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