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Bonus: Bitcoin’s Biggest Mystery

Felix Salmon from Slate Money joins Mary for a Slate Plus exclusive.

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Satoshi Nakamoto may be one person; he may be several. What we do know is: that’s the name of the creator of Bitcoin. Now, more than a decade and a half after Nakamoto’s name was etched in the cryptocurrency history, Satoshi is very very rich. If he’s alive, that is.

Guest: Felix Salmon, host of Slate Money and chief financial correspondent at Axios.

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.

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  • Mary Harris is the host and managing editor of What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast. She has reported throughout the public radio system, for NPR, Marketplace, and WNYC.