Joel Dietz says crypto is rotten, and he’s going to court to try to prove it. Dietz is a self-described “founding member” of Ethereum, the computer network on which the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency is housed. He didn’t pen the code, but in 2014, before Ethereum had launched, he worked as an evangelist of sorts, “showing people how it worked and why it was important,” Dietz says. He received a batch of cryptocurrency in return.
In the early days, working in crypto felt like “building the future of the internet,” says Dietz. It was about transparency, egalitarianism, and decentralization (crypto shorthand for transferring control over apps and infrastructure from the few
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