Digital Gold charts the rise of the Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the movement's colorful central characters, including an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
While it's tough to look at that
chart and not think this is a speculative mania, there is something about Bitcoin that's captured the public's imagination — whether it's the varied potential applications of the underlying blockchain technology, the idea of Bitcoin as «
digital gold,» or the promise of a currency immune to central banker meddling.