How Did You Become a Cryptocurrency Expert?

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The 29-year-old is a graduate of Stanford and the University of California, San Francisco. He says he had no idea what he was going to do with his life when he started working on crypto currency. "It quickly became clear that at least there can be some things i could do that would have real impact"

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