In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a method for everyone to run a database. Most immediately, he was inventing Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Mark Leidorf: "It sounds as if Satoshi invented a system in which I can send you Bitcoin and nobody else is involved"
Listen to an audio excerpt from this week's special issue of Businessweek magazine, where finance columnist Matt Levine uses the full issue to explain where crypto came from, what it all means, and why it still matters.
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