{"id":372842,"date":"2021-11-26T18:34:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/acid-bitcoin-mining-and-a-bad-trip-to-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:34:59","slug":"acid-bitcoin-mining-and-a-bad-trip-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/acid-bitcoin-mining-and-a-bad-trip-to-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"#Acid, Bitcoin mining and a bad trip to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af7a0a3c1f3d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/acid-bitcoin-mining-and-a-bad-trip-to-north-korea\/#6_Questions_for_Anton_Bukov_of_1inch_Network-2\" >6 Questions for Anton Bukov of 1inch Network<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Acid, Bitcoin mining and a bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to North Korea<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Ethan-Lou-2.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<pre><code>                &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ethan Lou is a journalist turned Bitcoin miner turned two-time author whose latest book, &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;b&gt;, is a modern western recount a gloomy millennials rebirth in the wild west of crypto  complete with scammers, party drugs and a North Korean crypto conference.&lt;\/b&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Want to go to a crypto conference in North Korea in April? is not a common question, but was asked of me by Lou in early 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference, attended by about 100 people, is the big attraction in Lous book. This is because eight months after the event, in November 2019, Virgil Griffith, who worked with the Ethereum Foundation and who was among the attendees Lou got to know, was arrested by the FBI for breaking sanctions and illegally providing \u201chighly technical information to the North Korean government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With Lou watching from the New York courtrooms gallery on the first day of the trial in September this year, a quite emotional Griffith <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pled guilty<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to a charge of conspiracy to violate sanctions laws in a deal which may see him spend over six years in prison. This was a surprise to Lou, who notes that Griffiths lawyers had requested <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the judge to allow for two suits so that he can wear different outfits on different days, suggesting that they, too, had expected the trial to last longer than a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9968\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9968\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20190419_025049.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 3. The room in which Virgil Griffith spoke to the North Koreans. (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lou, who considered the conference an innocuous opportunity to see North Korea, recalls how Griffiths initial arrest was a shock to everyone who had attended. He explains that the event was advertised as a crypto conference and he thought we were going to hear from the North Korean crypto people because North Korea has been accused of doing lots of shady stuff with crypto, referring to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">accusations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of state-sponsored hacking, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But, there were no North Korean crypto people.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It turns out we, the participants, were asked to be presenters.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though it <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared that some of the attendees, like Griffith, came prepared to present, most of us thought we were going to take information from the Koreans, he says, adding that he declined to give a presentation. As most presentations were prepared just days before, the events content consisted of only surface level, Wikipedia-type information. Lou notes that the event was organized by the cultural side, of the DPRK administration and that their crypto people never made themselves known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Still Day 6. At the conference. From inside the building looking out. This monument here is of a pen and then there&#039;s an atom on top, symbolizing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and writing and stuff. 26\/15 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iMDuwOG5Br\">pic.twitter.com\/iMDuwOG5Br<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ethan Lou (@Ethan_Lou) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ethan_Lou\/status\/1453158292348362756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t think Griffith had any intention of benefiting North Korea in any tangible way. I don\u2019t think he brought North Korea any benefits and he didn\u2019t derive any personal benefit  he paid quite a lot of money to be at the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What the group of merry conference-goers missed out on expected North Korean crypto insight, they gained in friendships and interesting stories  much of the time was spent touring Pyongyang and getting very drunk with our Korean minders.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a very interesting insight into North Korea for sure, but there wasn\u2019t any crypto insight.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Journalist_in_training\"><\/span>Journalist in training<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lou, 31, was born in Harbin, a northern Chinese city near the Russian border. He soon moved to Germany on account of his father doing Ph.D. work related to engineering there. Growing up in Germany, he developed a passion for reading and writing which inspired him to pursue the very natural choice of journalism for his undergraduate degree at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alum &amp; author <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ethan_Lou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ethan_Lou<\/a> joins <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ryerson_Alumni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ryerson_Alumni<\/a> on Nov. 23 for a Book Talk about his new book, Once a Bitcoin Miner:  Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West.<\/p>\n<p>RSVP for the event: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FmpyidjGD7\">https:\/\/t.co\/FmpyidjGD7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 School of Journalism (@JSchoolNow) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JSchoolNow\/status\/1459264846789234696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lou discovered Bitcoin around 2012 while exploring the dark web with his friends. This secretive underbelly of the internet which can only be accessed by the Tor browser once played host to the infamous Silk Road drug marketplace where BTC functioned as the payment method. Its operator, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ross Ulbricht<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, was sentenced to life after his 2013 arrest which resulted in the United States governments seizure and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">subsequent auction<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of 144,000 Bitcoin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: red\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_carousel jeg_postblock_carousel_3 jeg_postblock jeg_col_8 jnews_module__0_61a0ffd33862d    \">\n<div class=\"jeg_carousel_post\" data-nav='' data-autoplay='true' data-delay='4500' data-items=\"3\" data-margin='20'>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_wrapper\">\n<article class=\"jeg_post format-standard\">\n<div class=\"jeg_thumb\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy  size-1000 \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/themes\/jnews\/assets\/img\/jeg-empty.png\" 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https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Cofounder-of-Vitalik-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Cofounder-of-Vitalik-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"overlay_content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_content\">\n<h3 class=\"jeg_post_title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Meet_Dmitry_Co-founder_of_Ethereums_creator_Vitalik_Buterin\"><\/span>Meet Dmitry: Co-founder of Ethereum\u2019s creator Vitalik Buterin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i> November 16, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_wrapper\">\n<article class=\"jeg_post format-standard\">\n<div class=\"jeg_thumb\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy  size-1000 \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/themes\/jnews\/assets\/img\/jeg-empty.png\" class=\"attachment-jnews-75x75 size-jnews-75x75 lazyload wp-post-image\" alt=\"6 Questions for Anton Bukov of 1inch Network\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Anton-Bukov-1-75x75.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Anton-Bukov-1-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Anton-Bukov-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Anton-Bukov-1-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"overlay_content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_content\">\n<h3 class=\"jeg_post_title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Questions_for_Anton_Bukov_of_1inch_Network\"><\/span>6 Questions for Anton Bukov of 1inch Network<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i> November 14, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He re-encountered Bitcoin the following year in New Brunswick, a Canadian province on the Atlantic where Lou was an intern for a local <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper when he interviewed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anthony Di Iorio<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the founder of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Returning home to Toronto after his internship and variously working as a journalist for The Canadian Press and the Toronto Star, he familiarized himself with the burgeoning local Bitcoin scene where Di Iorio, who had relocated to the city and co-founded Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin, was now active.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9967\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9967\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20190418_1838110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Lou\u2019s many pictures from the DPRK (Source: Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another character who Lous book recounts a meeting is Gerald Cotten, who, in 2013, founded the QuadrigaCX exchange before <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dying in India<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2018, taking the private keys to his 115,000 customers Bitcoin to the grave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was from Cottens exchange that Lou purchased his first Bitcoin that year and promptly ordered 10 hits of LSD for 0.412 Bitcoin on the dark web. There was no going back on his trip into cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Crypto_cowboys\"><\/span>Crypto cowboys<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After working with the Toronto Star newspaper from 2013 to 2015, Lou was hired by Reuters which sent him to New York in early 2016, and later that year to Calgary where he focused on reporting about the energy industry. The province of Alberta, awash with oil and with Calgary as its largest city, is to Canada what Texas is to the United States. With its pre-oil history of cowboys, Calgary has held proudly to its western roots, and the oil boom of the previous decades no doubt attracted a new crop of daring adventurers seeking fortune in the west.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was here that Lou organized a weekly Bitcoin meetup, where we met. Lous was not the only show in town, as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jan Cerato<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a local crypto hype-man who held a meetup at a nearby cowboy-themed saloon on a different day of the week, somehow <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/fp-finance\/cryptocurrency\/once-a-bitcoin-miner-a-peek-inside-the-early-days-of-cryptocurrency\">began<\/a> to see him as competition. In Lous book, Cerato fills the role of comic relief via his various misadventures. \u201cMoving in the same circles, I grew to respect Lou as a serious journalist  he once told me he would protect his sources even if it meant prison, a statement whose validity I never doubted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lou had begun mining Bitcoin a few months prior when, while looking for his bike around the loading dock of the Reuters building, he happened upon a stash of treasure  eight discarded Dell Optiplex 780 computers.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each one could hold two GPUs, so it wasn\u2019t a lot, but I ended up buying GPUs and using those to mine, he recalls, adding that he needed to rent a car for $15.63  which annoyed him  to lug the computers to his apartment a few blocks away.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eventually, it became a whole dedicated facility with ASICs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the crypto industry moving a mile a minute as Bitcoin forked, the bull markets raged and his mines whirring in new BTC as he worked his corporate job at the news desk. Lou recalls that I didn\u2019t really have the chance to stand back and assess everything. That was until one day, sitting in his grey cubicle, he suddenly realized, if I so fancied, I could pick up the phone and buy an elephant. He was a crypto millionaire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: red\">(function() {window.mc4wp = window.mc4wp || {listeners: [],forms: {on: function(evt, cb) {window.mc4wp.listeners.push({event   : evt,callback: cb});}}}})();<!-- Mailchimp for WordPress v4.8.6 - https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/mailchimp-for-wp\/ --><\/p>\n<div class=\"mc4wp-form-fields\">\n<div class=\"jeg_mc4wp_heading\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_best_of_blockchain_every_Tuesday\"><\/span>The best of blockchain, every Tuesday<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>  Subscribe for thoughtful explorations and leisurely reads from Magazine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy<\/div>\n<p><label>Leave this field empty if you&#8217;re human: <\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"mc4wp-response\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/ Mailchimp for WordPress Plugin --><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No elephant was purchased that day but its scent was one of adventure, such which Lou felt was out of reach while living the 9-5 life. He resigned. I had the feeling that I guess any typical millennial just entering the workforce feels  maybe they call this a quarter-life crisis. Am I in the right place? Am I doing what is meaningful to me? Since I have the means, why don\u2019t I go on an adventure? he recounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And adventures he went on. In addition to those in North Korea, his book details a time he and I spent on a Thai island partying with members of a cryptocurrency incubator on a hillside resort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The big boss who funded everything was an early Bitcoiner and had made a fortune. People came and went, staying for free, indulging in crazy merrymaking. At least once, they had allegedly brought over a shaman. Lou wrote in Chapter 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another adventure of his is a book of its own, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey through a World Suspended<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Field-Notes-Pandemic-Journey-Suspended\/dp\/0771029977\">published<\/a> last year. It recounts his travels through Beijing, Singapore, Germany and back to Canada upon the cusp of the pandemic which seemed to follow him and, with air travel all but shut down, left him sheltering in my empty apartment in the German town of Bayreuth for six weeks during the eye of the storm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I wasn&#039;t going to be a total cheapo so while I won the first book from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ethan_Lou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ethan_Lou<\/a> I bought the second. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/amreading?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#amreading<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nonfictionnovember?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nonfictionnovember<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bookstagram?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bookstagram<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m7FeN4Qnnr\">pic.twitter.com\/m7FeN4Qnnr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeanne Kwong  (@Jeanne_August) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jeanne_August\/status\/1453901565891203079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_crypto_western\"><\/span>A crypto western<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It has long been said, often by critics, that the cryptocurrency industry resembles the Wild West. Lou agrees, though making clear that I don\u2019t consider that comparison an insult. I think that there are lots of cool things about the Wild West, at least the idea of it. That which attracted people to the west back then is what attracts people to crypto right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though the real wild west was largely built on injustice, colonialism and brutality, Lou says that the dream of the wild west lives within our minds.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wild west has a powerful draw largely because it\u2019s a place where there\u2019s lots of opportunity and wealth  it\u2019s also spacious and it\u2019s open to everyone and, most importantly, it\u2019s free from the societal hierarchies back home.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You go to the west so you can you can discard your past, you can bury your name and you can be born anew, he says, inspiring ideas of poor European peasants moving to the wildlands of the Americas, or perhaps Di Iorio who moved west to Toronto where he co-founded Ethereum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wild wests frontier eventually moved even further westward, and so it is in crypto, according to Lou. While more established players like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VISA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and cities like Miami<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are entering the partly-tamed lands, many of the early trailblazers like Coinbase, which has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">worked to sanitize<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> its idealistic early days, have upgraded their disreputable gambling saloons into modern glass offices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9989\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9989\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20190420_101143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 4. The view from a tower block. Virgil called North Korea a \u201cWes Anderson movie. (Source: Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But, the Wild West heart of crypto is fighting back. Lou points to the example of Shapeshift, an old player in the industry whose CEO <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Erik Voorhees<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/announcing-fox-token-bonds-301401389.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">transitioning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the company from a corporate structure to become a DAO, and the specific reason is that it wants to make it harder for regulators to rein it in. This is coming as the SEC is becoming <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">increasingly hawkish<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Lou explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of law is suddenly entering this space. At the same time, people are coming up with ways to flout the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Metaverse, Lou believes, marks the next frontier.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our online lives are just as real as our lives offline now. Online, we have no rights  we are beholden unconditionally to the digital masters. I think we already live in a Metaverse.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The battle for rights and freedoms in the Metaverse will be a major conflict of this new frontier. According to Lou, this will consist of a battle between centralized applications run by corporations and permissionless decentralized applications operating on blockchains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: red\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_carousel jeg_postblock_carousel_3 jeg_postblock jeg_col_8 jnews_module__1_61a0ffd340e40    \">\n<div class=\"jeg_carousel_post\" data-nav='' data-autoplay='true' data-delay='4500' data-items=\"3\" data-margin='20'>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_wrapper\">\n<article class=\"jeg_post format-standard\">\n<div class=\"jeg_thumb\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy  size-1000 \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/themes\/jnews\/assets\/img\/jeg-empty.png\" class=\"attachment-jnews-75x75 size-jnews-75x75 lazyload wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tim Draper\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Tim-Drapers-rules-for-investing-success-75x75.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Tim-Drapers-rules-for-investing-success-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Tim-Drapers-rules-for-investing-success-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Tim-Drapers-rules-for-investing-success-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"overlay_content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_content\">\n<h3 class=\"jeg_post_title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tim_Drapers_%E2%80%98odd_rules_for_investing_in_success-2\"><\/span>Tim Drapers \u2018odd\u2019 rules for investing in success<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i> November 23, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_wrapper\">\n<article class=\"jeg_post format-standard\">\n<div class=\"jeg_thumb\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy  size-1000 \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/themes\/jnews\/assets\/img\/jeg-empty.png\" class=\"attachment-jnews-75x75 size-jnews-75x75 lazyload wp-post-image\" alt=\"6 Questions for Han Kao of Sanctor Capital\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Han-Kao-75x75.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Han-Kao-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Han-Kao-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Han-Kao-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"overlay_content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_content\">\n<h3 class=\"jeg_post_title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Questions_for_Han_Kao_of_Sanctor_Capital-2\"><\/span>6 Questions for Han Kao of Sanctor Capital<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i> November 21, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_wrapper\">\n<article class=\"jeg_post format-standard\">\n<div class=\"jeg_thumb\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy  size-1000 \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/themes\/jnews\/assets\/img\/jeg-empty.png\" class=\"attachment-jnews-75x75 size-jnews-75x75 lazyload wp-post-image\" alt=\"Shanghai Man: Fiat on-ramps dry up in China, crypto topics censored on social media\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/MAG-our-man-in-shanghai-6-75x75.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/MAG-our-man-in-shanghai-6-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/MAG-our-man-in-shanghai-6-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/MAG-our-man-in-shanghai-6-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"overlay_content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_content\">\n<h3 class=\"jeg_post_title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shanghai_Man_VeChain_still_popular_in_China_crypto_media_shutdown_and_OKEx_goes_global-2\"><\/span>Shanghai Man: VeChain still popular in China, crypto media shutdown and OKEx goes global<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i> November 18, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_wrapper\">\n<article class=\"jeg_post format-standard\">\n<div class=\"jeg_thumb\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy  size-1000 \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/themes\/jnews\/assets\/img\/jeg-empty.png\" class=\"attachment-jnews-75x75 size-jnews-75x75 lazyload wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dmitry Buterin\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Cofounder-of-Vitalik-75x75.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Cofounder-of-Vitalik-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Cofounder-of-Vitalik-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Cofounder-of-Vitalik-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"overlay_content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_content\">\n<h3 class=\"jeg_post_title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Meet_Dmitry_Co-founder_of_Ethereums_creator_Vitalik_Buterin-2\"><\/span>Meet Dmitry: Co-founder of Ethereum\u2019s creator Vitalik Buterin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i> November 16, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_wrapper\">\n<article class=\"jeg_post format-standard\">\n<div class=\"jeg_thumb\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-container animate-lazy  size-1000 \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/themes\/jnews\/assets\/img\/jeg-empty.png\" class=\"attachment-jnews-75x75 size-jnews-75x75 lazyload wp-post-image\" alt=\"6 Questions for Anton Bukov of 1inch Network\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Anton-Bukov-1-75x75.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Anton-Bukov-1-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Anton-Bukov-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Anton-Bukov-1-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"overlay_content\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_content\">\n<h3 class=\"jeg_post_title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Questions_for_Anton_Bukov_of_1inch_Network-2\"><\/span>6 Questions for Anton Bukov of 1inch Network<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_date\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i> November 14, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He uses the example of Facebook, now fittingly called Meta, whose <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook Zero <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">initiative <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Facebook_Zero\">allows<\/a> for mobile users in certain developing countries to access a form of limited internet curated by Facebook, but it\u2019s free, adding that big corporations are shaping the way we perceive reality, as this will cause many people\u2019s entire experience of the internet to consist of only Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decentralized applications are the key to preventing big tech dominance. The Metaverse is not only inevitable, but already here.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/2021\/11\/26\/acid-bitcoin-mining-and-a-bad-trip-to-north-korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Acid, Bitcoin mining and a bad trip to North Korea&#8221; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ethan Lou is a journalist turned Bitcoin miner turned two-time author whose latest book, &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;b&gt;, is a modern western recount a gloomy millennials rebirth in the wild west of crypto complete with scammers, party&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magazine-Ethan-Lou-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}