Burning the Tally Sticks

Oh! Lenin probably wouldn’t have enjoyed cryptocurrency at all, but he did say there would be ‘decades where nothing happens and weeks when decades happen’… and so it goes with crypto: last week was a week when decades passed. 

Vitalik Buterin, the 27-year-old creator of Ethereum, casually and without warning made transfers worth about $1.5B into the accounts of an Indian coronavirus charity (Crypto Covid Relief) and Gitcoin, an open-source project funding ecosystem…