Tibor Fischer

Like it or not, cryptocurrency is here to stay

CoinMarketCap now lists more than 18,000 cryptos - and the new billionaires are the laptop nomads who can work anywhere there’s a reliable internet

Vitalik Buterin, the Russian-Canadian wunderkind behind Ethereum. [Alamy]
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    Public Affairs, pp. 496, £25

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