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Catching up on crypto: A quick rundown of terms that defines digital money

Here's a quick rundown on famous mavens and slang terms that define the phenomenon

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Camila Russo and Lily Katz | Bloomberg
The 1,000-plus different digital currencies, carrying a total value of more than $400 billion, and the people who follow them, sometimes obsessively, comprise a world unto themselves. Here's a quick rundown on famous mavens and slang terms that define the phenomenon. 

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Vitalik Buterin: At 19 years old, Buterin wrote the first draft of Ethereum, a new blockchain meant to be the foundation on which developers can build smart contracts and applications. He and a group of technologists went on to build what in five years has become the second-largest cryptocurrency, Ether. It’s been the spark for much of

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