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"The rollicking, delightfully told tale of the creation of one of the most profound new technologies of our time." -- Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief, Wired "If Brian Patrick Eha can make me, a Luddite dunce, both understand and care about the enigmatic Bitcoin, and if he can also tantalize the novelist in me with a narrative of intellectual daring and primal risk relating to Bitcoin's rise and fall and rise, then he is some kind of journalistic magician. And so he is, because he did all those things and more. Welcome to a new reality and the monetary future. You'll never find a better guide." -- Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air and Blood Will Out In the space of a few years, Bitcoin has gone from an idea ignored or maligned by almost everyone to an asset with a market cap of more than $12 billion.