Mt. Gox’s Demise Marks The End of Bitcoin’s First Wave Of Entrepreneurs

When I started looking into the Bitcoin startup ecosystem in early 2013, there was something that was just off about half of the founders I met. “I consider myself psychologically unemployable,” BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem told me in a phone interview last year. He described how he built BitInstant with an autistic Welsh hacker named Gareth Nelson whom he had never met in real-life.… Read More