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| − | A | + | A hacking prodigy as a teenager, Cade spent a good deal of time in and out of juvenile facilities in his youth. Using the handle "Zero-day," he installed ransomware on local government servers near his hometown of Bethesda, Maryland, crashed electrical grids, disrupted traffic systems, and otherwise engaged in all manner of cyber-anarchist mischief. Fortunately, he turned his attention to cryptocurrency mining before reaching the age of 17. This shift in focus to the cypherpunk world was highly profitable as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were more widely adopted, giving him the resources to have his rather prodigious juvenile record expunged. He forewent college, finding the prospect of coursework to be profoundly tedious. Instead, he put his bitcoin fortune to use in founding Cerberus, a cryptocurrency exchange. The nascent exchange has grown significantly, reaching nearly half a billion US dollars in cryptocurrency volume, and Cade has moved to Prospect to take advantage of its favorable regulatory environment and expand the exchange's operations. |
Revision as of 05:32, 3 September 2019
Background
A hacking prodigy as a teenager, Cade spent a good deal of time in and out of juvenile facilities in his youth. Using the handle "Zero-day," he installed ransomware on local government servers near his hometown of Bethesda, Maryland, crashed electrical grids, disrupted traffic systems, and otherwise engaged in all manner of cyber-anarchist mischief. Fortunately, he turned his attention to cryptocurrency mining before reaching the age of 17. This shift in focus to the cypherpunk world was highly profitable as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were more widely adopted, giving him the resources to have his rather prodigious juvenile record expunged. He forewent college, finding the prospect of coursework to be profoundly tedious. Instead, he put his bitcoin fortune to use in founding Cerberus, a cryptocurrency exchange. The nascent exchange has grown significantly, reaching nearly half a billion US dollars in cryptocurrency volume, and Cade has moved to Prospect to take advantage of its favorable regulatory environment and expand the exchange's operations.
