Ethereum turns 10: From scrappy experiment to Wall Street’s invisible backbone
CANNES — Ten years ago, Vitalik Buterin and a small band of developers huddled in a drafty Berlin loft strung with dangling lightbulbs, laptops balanced on mismatched chairs and chipped tables. They weren’t corporate titans or venture-backed founders — just idealists working long nights to push a radical idea into reality.
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The CEO of JPMorgan Chase gave a shout out on Wednesday to stablecoins, one of the buzziest sectors in the crypto. “I’m a believer in stablecoins, believer in blockchain, not personally, a believer in Bitcoin itself,” Jamie Dimon said in an interview with CNBC.
He added that his bank “will have” a stablecoin, or cryptocurrency pegged to underlying assets like the U.S. dollar. “There are things that stablecoins maybe can do that your traditional cash can’t,” Dimon said, adding later: “It’s what the customer wants. It’s not what JPMorgan personally wants.”