I'm not sure whether Ben Wallace should win a Pulitzer, be institutionalized for taking on this massive project, or both. * James Patterson *
Benjamin Wallace's astonishingly obsessive deep dive into the financial world's greatest modern mystery will leave you amazed, enlightened, and utterly breathless. * Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road *
The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto takes us on a wild adventure among the oddballs, geniuses, longevity fanatics, and anarchists of crypto in search of one of the most elusive and consequential figures of our time. * Sheelah Kolhatkar, New York Times bestselling author of Black Edge *
The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto delves into the enigma of Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the quest to unmask the figure behind the revolutionary cryptocurrency. Combining deep research and gripping storytelling, Benjamin Wallace unravels the mystery of Nakamoto's identity while exploring the cultural and financial impact of Bitcoin on the modern world. It's a thrilling, illuminating read. * Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling author of Billion-Dollar Whale *
I have long relished Ben Wallace's storytelling talents, and in The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto, he delivers a tale that is somehow a blend of Agatha Christie and Soren Kierkegaard, unravelling a mystery while also exploring the nature of mystery itself. His search leads us into many dark corners of the nation-state of Bitcoin, a world and its people I was surprised, as a reader who willfully never gave much thought to crypto, to find absolutely mesmerizing. * Adam Moss, author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing *
Highly enjoyable... The book proceeds like a convoluted murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact. The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto is thus also an education in the pleasures and pitfalls of investigative journalism. * Wall Street Journal *