Bitcoin's birth couldn't have been perfectly timed. In 2008, as millions lost their homes to foreclosures and banks received hundreds of billions in government bailout money during The Great Recession, a whitepaper was published without any fanfare. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, this document, outlining a new peer-to-peer electronic cash system, would lay the foundation for a major shift in how we think about money, trust, and the role of financial institutions. When Satoshi Nakamoto...