Ken’s bank said it couldn’t help, but that didn’t dissuade him. He spent the next four to five months bugging the Ethereum team to get updates on the timing of the “presale”—Ethereum’s plan to sell digital tokens before they were actually issued, tradeable, and usable. For the first time ever, he was willing to hand a check to a startup and they weren’t chasing him down for it. He started to realize it was part of their philosophy. It wasn’t about the establishment. This was about making the world decentralized, removing power from governments, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and putting it back
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