The Age of Cryptocurrency

Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, both Wall Street journalists, explain what bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are, where they came from and how they work. They lay out the promise their backers see: a financial system with no middleman, owned by the people who use it, shielded from a crash like that of 2008, and a way to bring the world's billions of unbanked people into the global economy. The authors also weigh bitcoin's reputation for instability, wild swings in value and illicit business, along with fears among some that it could eliminate jobs and upend the idea of the nation-state. They treat the shift as monumental and wide-reaching, for better and for worse, and expect it to last.

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