Ten years ago this month, I had dinner with a friend at our favorite hole-in-the-wall Thai restaurant in New York City. This friend is a successful entrepreneur who started one of the largest online men’s clothing businesses. I was excited to talk to him about a cryptocurrency I had just discovered called “Ethereum.” I had just read the white paper, and I was convinced this would change everything about the financial world the same way the internet had transformed traditional media. He told me I was crazy. And his response wasn’t unusual. At the time, most people dismissed it as hype… But I saw a system that could ... (full story)