Book Review: ‘The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto,’ by Benjamin Wallace
THE MYSTERIOUS MR. NAKAMOTO: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto, by Benjamin WallaceA few years ago, I met up for coffee in Miami Beach with a person named Keith Rabois. Along with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, Rabois is a member of the so-called PayPal Mafia — the group that took that company public in 2002 and went on to develop a series of seminal Silicon Valley businesses.The topic of Bitcoin came up, as it tended to do then. Rabois pointed out that PayPal’s original vision...