Tibor Fischer

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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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  • The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze

    Laura Shin

    Public Affairs, pp. 496, £25

There was a time when you could read a book to keep up to date about a subject. Well, that’s over. If a week is a long time in politics, in crypto it’s like a geological period. By the time a book on crypto hits the shelves it needs to be in the ancient history section.

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