Paul Vigna

Paul Vigna is the managing editor of American Banker. He has been a journalist for more than three decades, mostly with The Wall Street Journal, where he began covering bitcoin in 2013, one of the first mainstream reporters to do so. His coverage was instrumental in bringing awareness of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to professional, business-oriented audiences. Along with Michael Casey, he published “The Age of Cryptocurrency” in 2015, the first book about bitcoin from a Big Five publisher. They followed it up with “The Truth Machine” in 2018.

He was featured in two documentaries about crypto: “Banking on Bitcoin” (2016) and “Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It” (2015).

He has also published “The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin” (2025) and “Guts: The Anatomy of The Walking Dead” (2017).