The Infinite Machine

"Everyone has heard of Bitcoin, but few know about the second-largest blockchain, Ethereum, which has been heralded as the "next internet." The story of Ethereum begins with Vitalik Buterin, a supremely gift 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 supercharged global computer. The Infinite Machine introduces Buterin's ingenious idea and unfolds Ethereum's chaotic beginnings. It then explores the brilliant innovation and reckless greed the…