It was that determination and strength that had led to this front-page story. The piece wasn’t an accident; Tyler and his brother had worked hard to convince Nathaniel Popper, one of the most brilliant business voices at the New York Times, to write what would be his first Bitcoin story. They’d pitched him on the idea that they were the first legitimate investors to amass a large stake of bitcoin, when no venture funds in Silicon Valley would touch it with a ten-foot ethernet cable.