In 1848, James Marshall stumbled upon a shiny, metallic substance near his sawmill in Coloma, California and set in motion a movement of wealth-seeking speculation that turned into the California Gold Rush. In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a whitepaper on a new digital cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and set in motion a new movement of wealth-seeking speculation, this time a “digital gold” rush. While there are many differences between these […]