Nobody Owns Money

Chapter 22. The Warlock's Tears

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The Warlock's Tears

A thin young man in a green T-shirt with a headset microphone at his cheek, a TechCrunch backdrop behind him.archive
Vitalik Buterin at TechCrunch Disrupt in London, December 2015. The Ethereum network was in its fifth month. Source: John Phillips, CC BY 2.0

If bitcoin was money invented by an anonymous god who then vanished, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency had a face from the very beginning, and anyone who has ever opened crypto news knows that face. Thin, young, with attentive eyes, above a T-shirt with a unicorn or a cat on it. A man who wrote a whitepaper at nineteen and became a billionaire by thirty, yet kept walking out on stage in the same T-shirts and talking about cryptography with the kind of enthusiasm other people reserve for football.

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The Warlock's Tears — Nobody Owns Money | Mike Fluff