The Anarchist Hacker Bitcoin Would Rather Not Talk About

An acclaimed new book has afforded Bitcoin one of its periodic moments in the spotlight. Digital Gold, by New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper, is, as its US subtitle puts it, "The Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money." But readers might notice that Amir Taaki--arguably Bitcoin's most colourful misfit, and a guy who could easily have been a millionaire many times over--is absent from the book. Popper was planning to make Taaki one of his central characters, a...