Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains

Although its currency, called ether or ETH, is a distant second in total value compared to Bitcoin, if you add up the value of all the products and community tokens built on top of Ethereum, it has produced the biggest share of this strange new economy.

He wants to enable a radical reimagining of how human beings self-organize, while maintaining a rigorous agnosticism about what people choose to do with that power.

While Ethereum and systems like it are designed according to the assumption that people are selfish, he is the ascetic who seems to want nothing in particular for himself other than to enable a crypto-powered future.