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Ch. 5|Ethereum is BornCh. 6|The DAO Hack

A 19-year-old college dropout named Vitalik Buterin asked a simple question: what if a blockchain could do more than just move money? Ethereum turned crypto into a platform — programmable, composable, unstoppable. But within months of launch, $60 million was stolen through a flaw in its first major application, The DAO. What followed was the most controversial decision in crypto history: rewrite the chain, or let the money burn. Trustless tells how Ethereum was built, broken, and rebuilt.