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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

glory. As crypto became a cornerstone of internet-driven culture, it also borrowed heavily from meme culture. Alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum came a deluge of “initial coin offerings” (ICOs), many inspired by internet memes like Dogecoin (based on the Doge Shiba Inu) and Pepe Cash (derived from Pepe the Frog). Despite 80 percent

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Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words

, create a secondary market for the Tokens.”28 Some 22.5 billion tokens were set aside for Donald Trump. At the time of the ICO (initial coin offering), they would be worth $337.5 million, at least in theory.29 With crypto’s illiquid markets, it would be hard to sell many of

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson · 28 Apr 2024 · 249pp · 74,201 words

the first uses of tokens was, indeed, as money. People began to create cryptographic coins of one form or another and these became known as initial coin offerings (ICOs). Billions of dollars flowed into the first generation of ICOs. A great many of the ICOs came from Zug in Switzerland (often referred to

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Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future

by Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman · 8 Jul 2024 · 207pp · 65,156 words

. The cryptocurrency sector has become center stage for this problem, drawing in too many people who are looking not to build but to cash in. Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have allowed founders to generate wealth without necessarily delivering on the impactful innovations they promised, often leaving the less savvy investor holding the bag

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna · 5 Feb 2019 · 496pp · 131,938 words

banks. Its founders are also creating a virtual accelerator that digitizes the stages and lessons of the start-up process, from crowd-funding investment through initial coin offerings (ICOs) and blockchain-based business models. Cybersecurity companies are thriving in Singapore and expanding from there. Asians are learning and adapting as much or more

DeFi and the Future of Finance

by Campbell R. Harvey, Ashwin Ramachandran, Joey Santoro, Vitalik Buterin and Fred Ehrsam · 23 Aug 2021 · 179pp · 42,081 words

the future, and we expect most to exercise caution before issuing new tokens; many projects learned from the harsh penalties the SEC issued following the initial coin offering boom of 2017.28 Many major market-cap cryptocurrencies have been ruled commodities by the CFTC, exempting them from money-transmitter laws. Individual states, such

The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

by Keach Hagey · 19 May 2025 · 439pp · 125,379 words

a lot of computing power really mattered. OpenAI needed a lot more money. Sutskever, Brockman, Musk, and Altman batted around the possibility of creating an initial coin offering, or ICO, to generate cash, though Musk ultimately argued it would hurt their credibility. They made plans to try to raise more than $100 million

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Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

by Tom Eisenmann · 29 Mar 2021 · 387pp · 106,753 words

the Cascading Miracles pattern were legendary flops, including Iridium, Segway, and Webvan. More recent examples include Joost, a YouTube competitor from Skype’s founders; numerous Initial Coin Offerings; and a venture I’ll profile, Better Place, whose charging stations for electric cars used robots to rapidly swap depleted batteries with fully charged replacements

5 Day Weekend: Freedom to Make Your Life and Work Rich With Purpose

by Nik Halik and Garrett B. Gunderson · 5 Mar 2018 · 290pp · 72,046 words

be electronically stolen, and there is no recourse for the individual. Other ways to invest in cryptocurrencies include either mining them or participating in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of new crypto coins. Investing in cryptocurrencies, like all Momentum investments, means higher potential returns and higher potential losses. There’s a lot of

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Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Ph. D. · 23 Dec 2018 · 960pp · 125,049 words

specific privileges in contracts and must perform some task in order for the contract to proceed to the next state. One example would be an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) contract that requires the owner to finalize the contract, which then allows tokens to be transferable. For example: 1 bool public isFinalized = false; 2

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crowdsale contract can then transferFrom the token contract owner’s balance to each buyer of the token, as illustrated in Figure 10-1. Note An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a crowdfunding mechanism used by companies and organizations to raise money by selling tokens. The term is derived from Initial Public Offering (IPO

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