Overview

'Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.' James Patterson 'This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of the 21st century. I couldn't put it down.' Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k 'Highly enjoyable' Wall Street Journal In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto posted a white paper outlining 'a peer-to-peer electronic cash system' called Bitcoin to an arcane Listserv populated by Cypherpunks. No one in the community had heard of Nakamoto, and just as people were starting to wonder who he was, he vanished... Just who was Satoshi Nakamoto? Tracking leads from coastal Australia - through London, Oslo and Los Angeles - to the Arizona desert, and exploring Bitcoin's utopian origins and the world it eventually wrought, The Crypto Genius takes readers through a rogues' gallery tour of Nakamoto suspects - and the eleven-figure fortune in his Bitcoin wallet still waiting to be claimed. Previously published as The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto.

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Author:   Benjamin Wallace
Publisher:   Atlantic Books
Imprint:   Atlantic Books
Edition:   Main
ISBN:  

9781805464389

ISBN 10:   1805464388
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   02 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: It's Him 2: A Straight-Up Legend 3: Pretend Internet Money 4: Shiny Pony 5: Mathematicians with Guns 6: Wei 7: Boom Boom 8: An Evening of Pseudonymous Socializing 9: Mr. Rogers 10: Always Look on the Bright Side 11: The Pin, Not the Bubble 12: Satoshi Studies 13: Anonymous 14: A Spectacular Display of Hindsight 15: Sniffing Bronze 16: Slow, Not Furious 17: Hungarian Brainstorming 18: ""My Father Is an Honest Guy"" 19: Bag of Words 20: ""How Deep Are You?"" 21: Craig 22: Dave 23: A Treacherous Exercise 24: The Satoshi Checklist 25: An Imperfect Human Being 26: Gavin's Favorite Number 27: A Little Bit of Controversy for Fun 28: A Series of Screams 29: More of a Risk Than a Boon 30: Scott and Stuart 31: ""Do You Have a Salad Spinner?"" 32: Anything Is a Legitimate Area of Investigation 33: DJ Sun Love 34: Obviousness Fatigue 35: Freedom of Information 36: Negative Space 37: Eat Sleep Hodl Repeat 38: Alistair 39: Meh 40: Brian 41: Bacula 42: I Support the Current Thing 43: His Excellency 44: Florian 45: Numero Uno 46: Occam's Razor 47: Valley Boy 48: Vincent Adultman 49: A New Life Form

Reviews

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 * There's enough strangeness and intellectual substance to sustain interest... The thoroughness of Benjamin Wallace's investigation is impressive. He sifts through forum posts and timestamps, teaches himself to write code so that he can scrape old websites for evidence, and employs stylometry to examine both idiosyncrasies of prose and programming mannerisms. * Times Literary Supplement * Highly enjoyable... an education in the pleasures and pitfalls of investigative journalism. * Wall Street Journal * Entertaining ... a useful introduction to one of the century's true riddles * New York Times * This unexpectedly gripping page-turner attempts to get to the bottom of who, exactly, is behind the online identity who invented bitcoin ... Benjamin Wallace's search for that identity takes him on a global odyssey filled with online puzzles, shadowy figures, near-death escapades, and much more. * Lithub *

Author Information

Benjamin Wallace is the New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's Vinegar. He has been a features writer at New York and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

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