The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
Language: English
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 2024
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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A well-written, gripping book about the founding of the blockchain and cryptocurrency, Ethereum. A small closed tear to the upper edge of the back panel, as new otherwise. First printing. 6½" - 9¼".
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- Title
- The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
- Author
- Russo, Camila
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062886142
- ISBN 13
- 9780062886149
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- First printing
- Dimensions
- 6½" - 9¼"
Written 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 crack group of coders to join him in his quest to make a super-charged, global computer.
The Infinite Machine introduces Vitalik’s ingenious idea and unfolds Ethereum’s chaotic beginnings. It then explores the brilliant innovation and reckless greed the platform―an infinitely adaptable foundation for experimentation and new applications―has unleashed and the consequences that resulted as the frenzy surrounding it grew: increased regulatory scrutiny, incipient Wall Street interest, and the founding team’s effort to get the Ethereum platform to scale so it can eventually be 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 fraud―turning some into millionaires and others into felons―and revolutionize our ideas about money.
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About the Author
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 Chile’s largest national newspaper, El Mercurio and was awarded first place for online journalism by Brazil’s exchange operator BM&F Bovespa at the start of her career. She has a Master of Science degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. She lives in New York City.
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