The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto

“Highly entertaining. [Wallace] deftly creates drama. The book proceeds like a … murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact. The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto [is] an education in the pleasures and pitfalls of investigative journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal“The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years. I’m not sure whether Ben Wallace should win a Pulitzer, be institutionalized for taking on this massive project, or both.”—James Patterson“Superb.”—David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Lost City of Z“Wallace is an elegant historian and a talented anatomist of the Satoshi affair, and The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto deserves a wide readership.”—The New Yorker“This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of the twenty-first century. I couldn’t put it down.”—Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck“[A] fascinating mystery in a world where mysteries are ceasing to exist.”—The New York Post“The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto delves into the enigma of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the quest to unmask the figure behind the revolutionary cryptocurrency. Combining deep research and gripping storytelling, Benjamin Wallace unravels the mystery of Nakamoto’s identity while exploring the cultural and financial impact of Bitcoin on the modern world. It’s a thrilling, illuminating read.”—Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling author of Billion-Dollar Whale and co-founder of Project Brazen“Benjamin Wallace’s astonishingly obsessive deep dive into the financial world’s greatest modern mystery will leave you amazed, enlightened, and utterly breathless.”—Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road“The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto takes us on a wild adventure among the oddballs, geniuses, longevity fanatics, and anarchists of crypto in search of one of the most elusive and consequential figures of our time.”—Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of Black Edge“I have long relished Ben Wallace’s storytelling talents, and in The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto, he delivers a tale that is somehow a blend of Agatha Christie and Soren Kierkegaard, unravelling a mystery while also exploring the nature of mystery itself. His search leads us into many dark corners of the nation-state of Bitcoin, a world and its people I was surprised, as a reader who willfully never gave much thought to crypto, to find absolutely mesmerizing.”—Adam Moss, author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

Benjamin Wallace is The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire’s Vinegar. He has been a features writer at New York magazine and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.