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Anyone Could Have Invented Bitcoin
NO MYSTERY MAN
We love the idea of the lone genius inventing something wholly unexpected, but Bitcoin’s back-story doesn’t work that way. Think instead of something like the iPhone.
Eric Geissinger
Published
May 3 2016
1:00AM EDT
Benoit Tessier / Reuters
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