Bitcoin

It started with a nine-page whitepaper posted to a cryptography mailing list by someone no one has ever identified. Trustless traces Bitcoin from Satoshi Nakamoto’s radical idea — money without banks, without governments, without trust — through the first coins mined in a Helsinki apartment, the pizza that cost $41 (and later $600 million), the bitter block-size wars that split the community, and the halving cycles that turned a cypherpunk experiment into a trillion-dollar asset. The story of Bitcoin is the story of an idea that refused to die.