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How a 27-year-old busted the parable of Bitcoin’s anonymity
Enlarge (credit score: Sam Rodriguez) JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, Bitcoin appeared to a lot of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: really personal digital money for the Web. Satoshi Nakamoto, the cryptocurrency’s mysterious and unidentifiable inventor, had