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Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Virtual Currency
What Is a Virtual Currency?
The Dream of a Virtual Currency
Anonymous Digital Cash Awakens
The Liberation of the Dollar
Digital Gold Currencies
Ecommerce Rises
From Digital Postage to Money
Decentralizing the Bank
The Three Strains of Virtual Currencies
Chapter 2: Cryptography
Public Key Encryption
Diffie-Hellman-Merkle
The RSA Paper
A British Twist
Bringing Public Key Cryptography to the Masses
Hashing
Digital Signature
Proof of Work
Combating Junk Mail
Applying Proof of Work
Digital Postage
Adding Cost to Free Information
How Crypto Became Currency
Chapter 3: Public Record
The Earliest Writing and Single-Entry Bookkeeping
The Accounting Revolution and  Double-Entry Bookkeeping
Information Technology and  Triple-Entry Bookkeeping
Decentralizing the Record
A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Public Record
Chapter 4: Bitcoin
A Virtual Currency
Encrypting for Privacy
Shared Public Ledger
Peer-to-Peer Network
Proof of Work
What Is Bitcoin?
Chapter 5: Searching for Satoshi
Whodunnit?
The Search Commences
“The Bitcoin Crypto-Currency Mystery Reopened”
The Search Continues
The Newsweek Story
Nakamoto’s Neighbor
A New Suspect Appears
Evidence Builds
The Plot Thickens
Full Circle
Chapter 6: Profiling Satoshi
The Historical Basis for Satoshi
Primary and Secondary Sources
Relic and Narrative
Tendency of the Source
Closeness to the Event
Independent Confirmation
Parsimony
Ad Fontes: What Can the Sources Tell Us?
The Bitcoin Whitepaper
Correspondence
Technical Forensic Evidence
Interviews
The Sources and Satoshi
Building a Profile of Satoshi
Assumptions
The Assumption of Unity
The Assumption of Singularity
The Assumption of Normalcy
Profiling Nakamoto
Gender
Age
Geography
Nationality
Education and Work
Values
Summary of Satoshi’s Profile
Chapter 7: The Usual Suspects?
Redrawing the List of Suspects
A Closer Look at Adam Back
The Absence of Back from Bitcoin
Back-Satoshi Interactions
Other Evidence
But Then Again…
Concluding the Search for Satoshi
Chapter 8: Money
The Variety of Money
The Rossel Islanders
Cigarettes
Points
The Many Facets of Money
What Is Money?
Functions of Money
Medium of Exchange
Unit of Account
Store of Value
History of Money and Exchange
Exchange
Barter
Primitive Money
Banking
Coins
The Invention of Money
Dynamics of Money
Key Factors of Money
Standard
Minting
Legal Tender
Supply and Demand
How Money Becomes Valuable
Key Dynamics of Money
Bitcoin and Money
Bitcoin as Money
Scarcity and Store of Value
Pump and Dump
A Sketch of Bitcoin as a Dynamic System
Chapter 9: Social Organization
Hackers and the Origin of Open Source
Cypherpunks
Libertarians and Austrian Economics
The Social Structure of Bitcoin
Grid/Group Characterization
Bitcoin, Society, and the Cosmos
Chapter 10: Religion
What Is Religion?
The Prophet
Scriptures
Cargo Cults
Millenarianism
The World of the Bitcoin Standard
The Singularity
The Coming of the Thousand-Year Reign
Bitcoin and Religion
Chapter 11: Future
Normalization
Fringe Consolidation
Disappearance of the Nation-State
The Singularity
Post-apocalypse
Interplanetary
Will There Be Bitcoin in the Future?
Chapter 12: Beyond
Is There Life Out There?
What Is Life?
Characteristics of Life and Bitcoin
Structure
Reproduction
Adaptation
Metabolism
Growth
Reaction to Stimuli
Is Bitcoin Alive?
Putting the Elephant Back Together
Appendix: Possible Identities of Satoshi
Cited Authors in the Bitcoin Whitepaper
Wei Dai
The KU Leuven Group
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
Xavier Serret Avila
Henri Massias
The Blockchain Inventors
Stuart Haber
Wakefield Scott Stornetta
David Allen Bayer
The Odd Men Out
Ralph C. Merkle
William Feller
The Last Man Standing
Cryptography Mailing List
Anil Dash
Paul E. Foley
Paul Bradley
Kent Crispin
Steve Schear
Robert Costner
Joe Randall Farmer
Timothy C. May
William H. Geiger III
Robert Hettinga
Michael Johnson
Gé Weijers
Andy Dustman
Bill Frantz
Duncan Frissell
Jim Choate
Mark Fisher
Ian Grigg
Dave Birch
Bibliography
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Index