With these few simple words began a mania that gave tulips a run for their money and gave the world an industry that is at once messianic, ingenious and deeply dangerous.
Ten years ago, in the midst of the biggest financial crisis of the century, an anonymous person (or group of people) proposed something infuriatingly simple: that through the use of basic cryptographic techniques we can send value from computer to computer without a middleman. This revolutionary idea promised a brave new world in which many of the established players — banks, Wall Street and governments — were left out.”,
