The Cryptopians

By Laura Shin,

Book cover of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze

Book description

In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures-vast fortunes made from decentralized networks not controlled by any single entity and not yet regulated by many governments.…

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The Cryptopians covers basically the same ground as The Infinite Machine, but in much, much more detail. 

Shin very much sets out to dig the skeletons out of the closet from the earliest days of the Ethereum adventure. 

The thing you have to understand about how Ethereum started is this: A 19-year-old gawky immigrant kid who was completely conflict averse came up with the vision. A bunch of moderately rich guys and hacker types heard his ideas and saw money start to burst out of their eyeballs. They all moved into a house together and tried to build it and…

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