How Crypto’s Original Bubble Boy Rode Ethereum And Is Now Pulling The Strings Of The DeFi Boom - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
क्रिप्टो Ethereumकैसे क्रिप्टो का मूल बबल बॉय एथेरियम पर सवार हुआ और अब डेफी बूम के तार खींच रहा है02 / 08 / 2022बिटकॉइन एथेरियम समाचारOLAF CARLSON-WEE rode 2017‘s “initial coin offering” craze to become one of crypto’s top venture investors. Now hes raking in hundreds of millions, from a blockchain rage called DeFi, which promotes the fantasy of democratized financial services. On a frigid, windy day in January, Olaf Carlson-Wee is settling in for a long Zoom call from his $10 million Soho loft in Manhattan, reflecting on how far he has come in the four and a half years since फ़ोर्ब्स featured him on its cover, labeling him the poster child for the cryptocurrency bubble of 2017. Back then, a speculative frenzy of hundreds of initial coin offerings (ICOs) pushed the cryptocurrency market to well over $100 billion in value as greedy fools bid up junk tokens backed by little more than a white paper and some quirky computer code. Then 27, with three years of Coinbase work experience under his belt, Carlson-Wee was considered a sage. He had started a San Francisco–based hedge fund called Polychain Capital that was backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia Capital,