Nathan Schneider

Sep 23, 2024 | shepherd.com | Andrew Chow |Nathaniel Popper |Vitalik Buterin |Nathan Schneider

The journalist Nathaniel Popper starts at the beginning, telling the story of how Bitcoin emerged from message boards and was slowly but surely propelled forward by government-wary libertarians, computer science nerds, and opportunistic venture capitalists. Popper persuasively articulates the many problems that Bitcoin solves across the world—and then reveals its extremely bumpy road toward adoption. Why should I read it?