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Matthew Leising. Out of the Ether
Table of Contents
Guide
Pages
Out of the Ether. The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All
Dedication
Cast of Characters. Ethereum Cofounders
Other important early people
Badass blockchain ninja warriors
Other really important early people
Important people who helped Ethereum go mainstream
Prologue
Part I
Zero
One
Two
Three
Part II
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Part III
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Part IV
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-one
Twenty-two
Sources
Prologue
Zero
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Nine
Twelve
Thirteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty-two
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index
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Matthew Leising
Every person in this story I'm about to tell you knew this. Felt it in their bones. Their views were well known and widely shared, yet nothing ever seemed to change. Capitalism was destroying the planet. Income inequality kept tightening its grip. Tech behemoths like Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter owned the public square, where once all you needed was a soapbox to voice an opinion. Now any of these monopolists could censor you or shut you down for even clearing your throat. Human beings had ceded their organizing power to corporations that saw them as data to be harvested and sold. The grievances were long and detailed, and yet not many of these people could put their fingers on a way to effect change.
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Yet here I was sitting across from a person who for years had only been described to me as someone who lived in Switzerland. When researching the “Ether Thief” magazine story in 2017, the Ethereum people who suspected this man wouldn't reveal his name to me. It was rather cute, I thought at the time, and indicative of the ethics held by many in the Ethereum community: they wouldn't help spread the rumor that this man had been involved because they didn't really know if he'd done it.
In journalism, however, it's all about finding the right sources – the people who know the story. And I'd been lucky enough to find one such person. Exchanges are one of the only institutions in crypto that know the identities of their customers, and not even all exchanges do: some let people get an account and trade on their platforms with only an email address. But my hunt for the right source led me to someone who worked for an exchange. The names of three people in the Zürich area were shared with me by this person, along with transaction links from the exchange to their Ethereum transaction histories, links that pointed to the DAO attack. The man across from me was thought to be the leader of the group, I'd been told. I was enthralled, and yet knew this was almost certainly unsolvable. I only had a sliver of the whole story as I sat across from him. I would need him to confess to be certain.
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