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Learn moreWritten with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it.
Everyone has heard of Bitcoin, but few know about the second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, which has been heralded as the ""next internet.""
The story of Ethereum begins with Vitalik Buterin, a supremely gifted nineteen-year-old autodidact who saw the promise of blockchain when the technology was in its earliest stages. He convinced a crackĀ group of coders to join him in his quest to make a super-charged, global computer.
The Infinite Machine introduces Vitalikās ingenious idea and unfolds Ethereumās chaotic beginnings. It then explores the brilliant innovation and reckless greed the platformāan infinitely adaptable foundation for experimentation and new applicationsāhas unleashed and the consequences that resulted as the frenzy surrounding it grew: increased regulatory scrutiny, incipient Wall Street interest, and the founding teamās effort to get the Ethereum platform to scale so it can eventually beĀ accessible to the masses.
Financial journalist and cryptocurrency expert Camila Russo details the wild and often hapless adventures of a team of hippy-anarchists, reluctantly led by an ambivalent visionary, and lays out how this new foundation for the internet will spur both transformation and fraudāturning some into millionaires and others into felonsāand revolutionize our ideas about money.
Camila Russo is one of the most prolific and dedicated cryptocurrency journalists, speaking frequently at industry events and appearing on major media outlets. She is the founder of crypto content platform The Defiant, and was a Bloomberg News reporter for eight years covering emerging markets, European stocks and digital assets from Buenos Aires, Madrid and New York City. She also worked at Chileās largest national newspaper,Ā El MercurioĀ and was awarded first place for online journalism by Brazilās exchange operator BM&F Bovespa at the start of her career. She has a Master of Science degree from Northwestern Universityās Medill School of Journalism and a bachelorās degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. She lives in New York City.