regulatory compliance, 236–237
response to Mt. Gox collapse, 315
transaction fees, 290
working with banks, 305–306
CoinLab, 138, 144, 200, 213
COIN (Nasdaq ticker symbol), 353
Collins, John, 265–266
conferences (Bitcoin and others)
2011 CIA interest in Bitcoin, 81
2011 NYC Bitcoin World Expo, 102–
106, 135
2011 Thailand, Bitcoin, 104
2012 Amsterdam, Bitcoin, 104, 297–
298
2012 Federal Reserve on money
transfer, 132–133
2012 NYC, Bitcoin, 104
2013 Allen & Co., 181, 349
2013 Argentina, Bitcoin, 277–283
2013 San Jose, Bitcoin, 214–216
2014 Allen & Co., 262, 349, 353–355
2014 Austin, Bitcoin, 331–336
2014 Bitcoin Pacifica (Lake Tahoe),
337–345
2014 SXSW, 334–336
2014 Utrecht technology, 298
The Construction and Operation of
Clandestine Drug Laboratories
(Jack B. Nimble), 69
Costollo, Dick, 181
Cowen, Tyler, 286
CRASH (CRypto caSH), 12
credit cards
Bitcoin as replacement, 23, 158–160,
235, 292
digital wallets and, 101, 154, 209
disputes and chargebacks, 64, 134,
343
lack of privacy, 11
Target Corporation, data breach, 288–
289
transaction fees, xii, 102, 240–241,
272, 277–278, 290, 343
WikiLeaks blockade, 57
Crisis Strategy Draft, 313–315
cryogenics, 7
cryptocurrency, 36
Cryptonomicon (Stephenson), 19, 252
currency debasement, 30–31
Cypherpunk Manifesto, 8–12
Cypherpunks
awareness of privacy and data
vulnerability, 8–9
conceptualizing future of money, 11–
13, 16
facing digital money obstacles, 19–20
philosophical influences, 70
termination of mailing list, 20
Dai, Wei, 19–20
Darkcoin (digital currency), 270–271
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Graeber), 157, 179
decentralized systems/technology. See also Blockchain
about Bitcoin ideology, 236
Bitcoin comparison to gold, x
building Bitcoin system, 55–56, 141,
292–294
development of payment systems,
129, 133
disadvantages of centralization, 113–
114
Internet as, 182
Occupy Wall Street movement and,
111
open source software and, 45–47
P2P Foundation and, 30
regulatory compliance, 269–270
resolving problems, 195
Silk Road and, 118
trend toward centralization, 99–100,
347
Der-Yeghiayan, Jered, 246–248
DigiCash, 12, 19, 21, 23, 26, 158. See also Chaum, David
digital currency
Anoncoin, 270–271
Chinese potential, 260–261
creation of early systems, 12–13
Darkcoin, 271
Finney experimentation, 5
Greenspan prediction, 17
Liberty Reserve, 218
Mint Chip, 133
Q coin, 257, 260–261, 268
DigitalInk (screen name). See George, Jacob
Dimon, Jamie, 303–306
Dixon, Chris, 181–182, 186, 294
Dodd, Nigel, 16
Donahoe, John, 262
Donald, James, 24
Draper, Tim, 353
Dread Pirate Roberts [DPR] (screen
name), 118, 121, 168–169, 171, 213,
225, 227, 248. See also Ulbricht, Ross
drugs/drug trafficking. See Silk Road eDonkey (file sharing website), 50–51
Ehrsam, Fred, 334–336. See also
Coinbase (Bitcoin service)
Electronic Frontier Foundation, 80, 270
Eleuthria (screen name), 195
encryption technology, 8–12. See also Public-key cryptography
exchange-traded funds (ETF), 222, 250
Extropians, 11
Facebook, 145
Faiella, Robert (aka BTC King), 130,
138, 299
The Far Wilds (online game), 50–51
FBI. See U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation
Federal Reserve. See U.S. Federal Reserve
Financial Crimes Enforcement Unit
[FinCen] (Treasury Department),
138, 196–197, 201, 234–235, 266,
325
Financial Times, 262, 317
Finney, Fran, 3
Finney, Hal
defense of Bitcoin system, 24–27
introduction to Bitcoin, 3–8
Lou Gehrig’s disease diagnosis, 27
return to Bitcoin community, 59–60
role in PGP, 10, 13
Finney, Jason, 27
FirstMark Capital, 144, 147–149, 176
Forbes, 80, 96
Fortress Investment Group, 180, 217–
219, 252, 272–273. See also Briger, Pete
Founders Fund, 187, 211
4chan (hacker message board), 75
Freeman, Ian, 75–76
Free State Project, 107–110
Free Talk Live (radio program), 75–78, 108
Freis, James, 325
FriendlyChemist (screen name), 225–
226
Gandalf (computer chip), 329
Garzik, Jeff, 83–84, 92, 99, 190, 196,
348
Gates, Bill, 353–355, 385n
Gawker (website), 83–84
George, Jacob (aka DigitalInk), 121
George Mason University, 80
Georgia, Republic of, 330
GitHub, 141
Goldman Sachs, 324–326
gold standard, x, 15–16, 31–32, 45,
109, 157–158
Gonzague, 312–315
Goodman, Leah McGrath, 319–324
Google, 101–103, 187, 248–249, 283,
304–305, 314–315, 334
Google Wallet, 101
government regulation/investigation
arrest of Roger Ver, 77–78
arrest of Ross Ulbricht, 170–171
BitInstant, 222–224
BTC China, 273–275
Erik Voorhees, 224–225
PGP and Zimmerman, 10
virtual currencies, 66–67, 196–198,
235
Graeber, David, 157
Great Depression, 31
Great Recession, banking crisis of
2008, 32, 111
Green, Curtis (aka chronicpain), 116,
170–171, 225, 249, 332
Greenspan, Alan, 17
hackers/hacking
Bitcoin vulnerability, xiv, 24, 154,
201, 215
BitInstant penetration, 150
message boards, 75
Mt. Gox penetration, 67–69, 82–83,
90–96, 99, 114, 205–207
ransom demands/payments, 82, 150,
169, 347–348
Silk Road penetration, 168–169, 225,
248–251
Target data breach, 288–289
vulnerability of private information,
xii, 19
Hanecz, Laszlo, 41–44, 48, 58, 189,
215
Hashcash, 17–22, 339, 348
hash functions, 22, 25–26, 41–42, 136,
359–362
Hearn, Mike, 80–81, 99–100, 101–103,
320
Hoffman, Reid, 181, 183, 291–293, 353
Horowitz, Ben, 192, 335. See also
Andreessen Horowitz
Huang Xiaoyu, 255–256, 258
Hughes, Eric, 8, 11–12
Huobi (Chinese exchange), 285
Iceland, 330
India, 350
WikiLeaks blockade, 57
Internet relay chat (IRC), 41, 54, 67,
196
Internet terrorism. See hackers/hacking Jack B. Nimble, 69
Jiasule (Chinese security service), 261
Johnston, David, 204
JP Morgan Chase & Co., 202, 218,
303–306, 327
Juno Moneta (Roman god), 17
Kaminska, Izabella, 317
Karpeles, Mark. See also Mt. Gox (Bitcoin exchange)
arrival at Mt. Gox, 65–68
becoming Mt. Gox owner, 68–69
control over Mt. Gox code, 99
lack of management skill, 127–128,
233, 307–309
marginalization in Bitcoin future, 331
NYC Bitcoin Expo 2011, 103–105
struggling with Mt. Gox growth and
problems, 140–141, 200–201