Ethereum Co-Founder Invested in Bitcoin at $1 in 2011, What’s Changed?Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum and Cardano, entered the cryptocurrency sector when Bitcoin was valued at just over $1. Since then, the infrastructure supporting the market and blockchain systems has changed drastically, at an exponential rate.
In an interview with Mpho Dagada, Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, a technology company that leads the development of Cardano (ADA) and Ethereum Classic (ETC), said that he first engaged in the cryptocurrency sector by mining Bitcoin in 2011, when the dominant cryptocurrency was worth about $1.
In 2013, as the price of Bitcoin increased by 250-fold from $1 to $250, Hoskinson decided to be involved in the sector, with passion to lead major projects.
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Initially, Hoskinson revealed that he was approached a Chinese entrepreneur to create a stablecoin for $500,000 in funding. At the time, Tether (USDT) was not around, and there were no stablecoins in the market investors could utilize to hedge the value of cryptocurrencies to that of the US dollar.
After rejecting the offer, Hoskinson met Dan Larimer, the creator of BitShares, to work on the first decentralized cryptocurrency exchange platform. However, Hoskinson eventually left the company due to the differences between himself and Larimer, and met Anthony Di Iorio and Vitalik Buterin to create Ethereum.
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