Digital Gold

loan to Mt. Gox, 205

Mt. Gox collapse, 312–314

regulatory filing for COIN, 353

testifying at government hearing, 300–

302

Woo, David, 272

Woodside Bakery and Cafe, 291–293

World War II, 31

Wuille, Pieter, 348

Xapo, 281–282, 292–296, 305–306,

349–351, 353. See also Wences

Casares

Yang Linke, 255–256, 258, 260

Yoda (computer chip), 329

Zimmerman, Phil, 10

Zuckerberg, Mark, 145, 176, 221, 291

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* For more detail on how this and other basic elements of how the Bitcoin

network worked, see the Technical

Appendix on page 357.

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Document Outline

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Part Two

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Part Three

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Technical Appendix

Acknowledgments

Sources

Index

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

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