New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Selected for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015. The New York Times technology and business journalist traces the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities attempting to create a new global currency for the internet age.

Digital Gold is the brilliant and captivating story of Bitcoin, the groundbreaking digital money and financial technology that has sparked a global social movement, written by Nathaniel Popper, a reporter for the New York Times. The idea of a new currency maintained by users' computers worldwide has often been the subject of jokes, yet this has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions, supported by throngs of followers who view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments. Bitcoin is more than just a passing trend in the tech industry; it threatens to decentralize some of society's most fundamental institutions.

An unusual story of group innovation, Digital Gold follows the rise of Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the colorful central characters of the movement, including an Argentine millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, as well as Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already, Bitcoin has brought immeasurable wealth to some and prison sentences to others.