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

guys”) thought it prudent to postpone the crowdsale until they could be sure it would not run afoul of SEC regulations regarding the sale of securities.

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.

In February 2011, when he was seventeen, his father had told him about Bitcoin, a new currency not controlled by the government or banks.

Mathias Grønnebæk,

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.

Colored Coins, a new concept to enable people to trade real-world assets using the indelible ledger of the Bitcoin blockchain by attaching metadata to a transaction of one satoshi, or 0.00000001 BTC,

Swiss Stiftung

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.