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In January 2015, Craig Wright was facing financial ruin, with the Australian Taxation Office having uncovered a potentially criminal operation involving his raft of companies. Six months later he was sitting pretty, having signed a bailout deal that settled his tax affairs and afforded him a dream job in England. Somehow, Wright had turned it around. In truth, Wright had accepted a ticking time bomb. The deal that saved him was predicated on one very important premise: that he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.

Discover the invisible infrastructure reshaping the world’s largest asset class. For over a century, commercial real estate operated on an analog playbook. Deals were won through local monopolies, personal Rolodexes, and a "ledger-in-head" mentality. Investment committees relied on out-of-date demographic reports, primitive paper maps, and the subjective "gut feel" of seasoned operators. That era is over. The latency between asking a question and answering it has approached zero, and the competitive edge has fundamentally shifted.

The definitive and “captivating” (Marty Baron, author of Collision of Power) story of San Francisco’s meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its boom nearly engineered its collapse. At the dawn of the...

The thrilling story of the nineteenth century's moonshot: An Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world. In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the Atlantic. Nothing like it had ever been...

Vom Klackern der Relais zum Flüstern der KI. Eine epische Reise durch die Geschichte der Computer – erzählt als Drama, nicht als Datenblatt. Dieses Buch ist keine trockene Technikgeschichte. Es ist eine Zeitreise zurück in die Kinderzimmer der 80er, in verrauchte Studios der 90er und in die Serverfarmen der Gegenwart. Eine Geschichte über Maschinen – und über die Menschen, die mit ihnen träumten.