Running a geographically distributed organization between five countries is hard. That’s likely the big one. And I’ll say that, having both founded Ethereum and co-founded Bitcoin Magazine, which works similarly, even if we have awesome cryptocurrencies and communication protocols, there’s still quite a bit of sociology that needs to catch up.

In July 2016, the pro-fork activists were tired of the debate and decided to hard fork the Ethereum blockchain, creating a new version of the currency that returned stolen money to investors. This new version, confusingly, kept the original name Ethereum. The anti-fork group continued to recognize the original, unaltered blockchain as the official ... See more

Sam lived in his head and thought his way to decisions, or at least believed that he did. If CZ ever had an original thought he never expressed it, and he seemed to feel his way to his decisions. Sam thought about the size of the pie, while CZ cared more about the size of his piece. Sam was gunning to build an exchange for big institutional crypto

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