They were holed up in two cramped rooms on the ground floor of a coworking space in Bushwick, the Brooklyn neighborhood for those who think Williamsburg is getting too expensive and gentrified. The dozen or so of them had come from different areas of corporate America, finance, and tech, and were busy building Joe Lubin’s new startup, ConsenSys. The company, which was financed by Joe’s own money, had the goal of building the applications that would run on top of Ethereum’s open source protocol layer. It would do that by investing in startups, incubating companies of its own, advising bigger
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