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

almost no business guys were left. The devs were in control.

The sale would last forty-two days because forty-two is the answer to the “ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything” in Douglas Adams’s book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

The same day, the SEC charged a Bitcoin entrepreneur, Erik Voorhees (who had connected Anthony to the anonymous buyer of his Bitcoin gambling site), with offering unregistered securities—

Swiss Stiftung

were. Not only that, but they were willing to be kicked out of the project in order to salvage it.

Gavin, who had moved to Berlin, deeming London too finance focused, also was concerned about the many stories he was hearing about the Switzerland crew partying.

advisors. The only founders he saw as indispensable and legitimately deserving of the title were the developers: Vitalik, Jeff, and himself.

To Gavin, the fact that he, one of Ethereum’s main coders, was paid the same monthly rate as the carpenter would still rankle years later.

those services would be remade as public goods in the form of decentralized software, the way the internet itself is a public good, not run by any one profit-making corporation.