NO MYSTERY MAN
We love the idea of the lone genius inventing something wholly unexpected, but Bitcoin’s back-story doesn’t work that way. Think instead of something like the iPhone.
Eric Geissinger is the author of Virtual Billions: The Genius, the Drug Lord, and the Ivy League Twins behind the Rise of Bitcoin (Prometheus Books). He has worked as a technical writer for Silicon Valley software companies for 17 years, and his short fiction and poetry have appeared in several literary journals.