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Stefan Thomas made an early viral Bitcoin explainer video and an early JS toolkit, became Ripple's CTO, and co-created Interledger — all while locked out of 7,002 BTC since around 2011.
Proof of work vs proof of stake, scored axis by axis with dated numbers: market cap, track record, energy, attack cost, decentralization, speed and new-chain adoption, with DPoS and PoA beside them.
A hundred billion units generated in a single stroke in June 2012, a validator list two organizations curate, and a five-year SEC lawsuit over who was allowed to sell them.
Created Mt. Gox in 2010 and sold it in 2011, then co-created the XRP Ledger and Stellar. He says the whitepaper convinced him the double-spend problem was solvable at all.
Bitcoin's 'digital gold' status rests on two layers of decentralization — system and people/organization — and six structural features no later cryptocurrency combines to the same degree.