“The brutal or inspiring truth… is that the more you put in, the more you get out.” Like many people in crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried is in it for the money. As the founder of quant trading firm Alameda Research, exchange FTX and DeFi protocol Serum, the curly haired 28-year-old has amassed a $10 billion fortune…
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“I think it’s just going to be seen as the digital art revolution. I truly believe this is the start of the next chapter in art history.” At the age of 26, Wisconsin web designer Michael Winkelmann began creating a new piece of digital art in his personal time every single day. He calls them…
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“Lots of my friends lost their savings because banks suddenly shut down and nobody would guarantee their life savings. So this was like quite a shock.” European Parliamentarian Eva Kaili’s conversion to cryptocurrency came as she watched her friends lose their life savings in the fallout of the Global Financial Crisis. The crunch came during…
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“Apart from having a good wife, I have everything I need in life, and money is not going to get me more of what I need.” For someone who devotes so much of his life to Bitcoin and finance and who has made and lost a small fortune twice now podcaster Peter McCormack doesn’t actually…
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“My wife claims that I live in the future all by myself. And once in a while, society ends up coming to where I have been sitting on the road and waiting for them for a long time.” The way Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky tells it, he not only invented DeFi, but also Uber and…
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“How advanced would the United States be if you couldn’t send money from New York to Florida? From New York to California? From Oregon to Washington? It wouldn’t be the United States! It would be a mess of all these squabbling little city-states that can barely get it together.” Im coining this term right here,…
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“I loved crypto. I loved the libertarian ideas. At that time, everyone was talking about freedom, about privacy, about the necessity of changing finance, about giving back financial freedom to people. I really believed in that and I still believe in such ideas.” Robert Wiecko is getting back into playing electric guitar. Armed with his…
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