Jeff Booth, founding partner at Ego Death Capital and a director at Core Scientific, was once deeply skeptical of Bitcoin. The longtime technology entrepreneur, who co-founded BuildDirect in 1999 and authored The Price of Tomorrow in 2020, initially questioned whether Bitcoin could remain decentralized and secure against governments or other powerful attackers. Instead of accepting Bitcoins claims, Booth spent roughly 15,000 hours studying how the network could fail. He ran a Bitcoin node and examined potential attacks involving governments, major miners and competing interests. His…
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