As a passive investor / podcaster / conference-goer, it was fun to relive the Ethereum story in The Infinite Machine by @CamiRusso.

Here are 6 interesting tidbits I learned (paraphrasing from book)

1. Vitalik @ Ripple? He asked Jed McCaleb, who had developed the digital payments protocol Ripple, if he could join the venture. McCaleb quickly said yes, but to get the job, Vitalik first had to get a US visa. It was too complex and avenues, they finally gave up around May.

2. @el33th4xor advising Vitalik during the infamous DAO Hack:
“Code is not law,” he said. “The law is the law. We are not going to tear down an entire financial system and build a new one only to be enslaved by the algorithms that we have come up with."

3. During the Ethereum ICO, Amir Taaki, Hoskinson, Joe Lubin, Gavin Wood, Vitalik etc, funds were low and around 10 of the original team at one point moved into a 1 bedroom apartment, with Hoskinson sleeping in the closet

4. Direct quote: "By the time he was seven, Vitalik still wasn’t very good at expressing himself in complex sentences, but he wrote a thirty- to forty-page document in Microsoft Word that he called “The Encyclopedia of Bunnies.”

5. Joseph Lubin almost became a professional squash player.

6. Amir Taaki and Griff Green (who I had the pleasure of knowing and interviewing a few times) were under the radar but played key roles in the birth and survival of Ethereum.

There are many more. I suggest you go get yourself a copy. Bien hecho Cami!!