Reporter Nick Paumgarten profiles Ethereum and ConsenSys. He interviews Vitalik Buterin, who boasts of how “someone who has high status inside a cryptocurrency community” becomes a “high priest” who can “issue fatwas.” Lubin, in turn, explains that he escaped having ether be seen as an unregistered security by “creating a reality” through words. He said they “defined what Ethereum is and what ether is” and that “we could create reality that way. It seems to have worked.”

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