He shut down his recruiting business and started heavily investing in the cryptocurrency. He made a lot of money in the 2013 spike, and then lost it all when it crashed a year later. That gut-wrenching volatility is what got him thinking about stablecoins, which Charles Hoskinson’s former company with Daniel Larimer, BitShares, was building. He became a BitShares enthusiast but eventually grew tired of the internal drama in the BitShares crowd as well as all the political talk, which was getting extreme, even if he was now too a libertarian believer. Rune felt the drama and politics got in the
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