Too Long; Didn't Read
It was the second week of December. Most people had holiday on their minds and the hodlers were in ecstasy because <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/bitcoin" target="_blank">bitcoin</a> had just popped $15K. Life was good. Everyone around me was talking about Crypto Kitties, and my coworker was elaborating with theatrical arm gestures on the genetic breeding of non-fungible assets on the Ethereum <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a>. In other words, it was a normal day in crypto land.