The Crypto Genius: A Quest to Unmask the Mysterious Mr Nakamoto (Paperback)

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