The Infinite Machine
How an Army of Crypto-Hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
by Camila Russo
5/5
Harper Business 384 pages July 14, 2020
Russo, a former Bloomberg journalist and founder of The Defiant, charts Ethereum's rocky path from Vitalik Buterin's teenage white paper to a $200B+ network that hosts DeFi, NFTs, and most of crypto's most interesting experiments. The definitive narrative history of Ethereum.
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This is to Ethereum what Digital Gold is to Bitcoin — the definitive narrative history. Russo had inside access to most of the original Ethereum founders and tells the story of how a 19-year-old kid in Toronto built the second-largest crypto network. The DAO hack, the Buterin/Hoskinson founder schism, the move to proof-of-stake — it's all here. If you want to understand why Ethereum exists and what makes it different from Bitcoin, this is the book. Five worms. Read alongside The Bitcoin Standard for the full bull-vs-altcoin debate, then make up your own mind.
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