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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
The crypto bro - and he is predominantly the male of the species - around 94 per cent of the world’s 13 million cryptocurrency accounts are held by men - likes to keep his backpack strapped on as he makes his way into the party. It’ll be a crypto bro, meet and greet, probably in San Francisco, possibly attended by the famed Winklevoss twins, maybe at hipster angel investor Grant Hummer’s Crypto Crackhouse venue. Or at one of the satellite social events at super posh Swiss mountain resort St Moritz during the annual Crypto Finance Conference every January.And like a Taylor Swift fan wearing a Taylor Swift tour t-shirt at a Taylor Swift show, this Block Chain Gang guy will be likely wearing some sort of bitcoin merch - a key chain, diamond necklace, beanie hat, hoodie or a trucker cap, maybe even a customised skateboard, all emblazoned with the double strike-thru’ capital B symbol. Or, if he happens to be turbo crypto bro’ Fredric Fortier, a special digi-knit jumper with the word “Ethereum” woven into its colourful Nordic pattern.You know Ethereum, right? The decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality? The platform which has Ether as its native cryptocurrency? Cofounded by 27-year-old Russian-Canadian programmer and mega-bro Vitaly Dmitriyevich "Vitalik" Buterin, who wears child-like rainbow-coloured t-shirts and looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s nerdier, kid brother? Nope? Us neither. Even though he has nightly Lambo dreams (the Lamborghini being the fantasy bitcoin bro’ car of choice) our cryptosphere inhabitant will take an Uber to and from the event - the bonafide bro doesn’t flash his cash…not yet, anyway - “the goal is to be rich…not to look rich”.He will arrive home at his seven bro apartment share, in the early hours, after a champagne and shots afterparty, where the drunken conversation will
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