Bonus: Bitcoin’s Biggest Mystery
Felix Salmon from Slate Money joins Mary for a Slate Plus exclusive.
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Episode Notes
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.