Ben Wallace, "The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto"

Watchung Booksellers welcomes Ben Wallace, author of The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto, in conversation with journalist Jason Tanz.

About the book:
A thrilling investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin’s creator and a deep dive into crypto’s utopian origin story—fromThe New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Billionaire’s Vinegar

In October 2008, someone going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto posted a white paper outlining “a peer-to-peer electronic cash system” called Bitcoin to an arcane listserv populated by Cypherpunks. No one in the community had heard of Nakamoto, and just as people were starting to wonder who he was, he vanished. As the years passed, and the scope of Nakamoto’s achievement became clear, the truth of his identity grew into the greatest unsolved mystery of our time. The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto traces Benjamin Wallace’s attempt to unmask the figure behind the currency and the world it wrought.

Benjamin Wallace presents a page-turning work of investigative journalism with the same propulsive-narrative flair that made his New York Times bestseller The Billionaire’s Vinegar an instant success. With the forensic skill of Sherlock Holmes and the storytelling verve of Arthur Conan Doyle, Wallace follows the trail of computer code and personal writings to the heart of the Nakamoto mystery while interrogating the very nature of mystery itself.

About the author:

Benjamin Wallace is The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire’s Vinegar. He has been a features writer at New York magazine and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.