With the end of the year just a few days away, we look back on 12 months’ worth of features, interviews and columns to dig up the best of the best.
Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin on how the band broke up; John McAfee’s widow on the questions around his death, the ethics of orange pilling kids, account abstraction, restaking — and much more.
From his childhood living in a ghetto on the east bank of the Yamuna River in Delhi to launching the $6-billion Polygon blockchain, Sandeep Nailwal has an incredible rags-to-riches tale.
Now happily ensconced in the futuristic, air-conditioned cityscape of Dubai, he tells Magazine he was born in a farming village called Ramnagar in 1987 with no electricity in the foothills of the Himalayas.
His parents married as teenagers and then packed up home when Nailwal was just four to try their luck in Delhi. They wound up in the poor settlements on the east banks of the river, often dismissively referred to as Jamna-Paar.
“Imagine the Bronx in New York,” Nailwal says. “It was like a tier-three area. Even now, when you go there is a very kind of ghetto-ish area.”
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Janice McAfee, the widow of tech impresario John McAfee, is still in the midst of grief. She is doing “odd jobs to feed herself,” has run out of funds, and can’t move on until his autopsy records are released.
Since the death of crypto guru and antivirus pioneer husband John McAfee in a Barcelona prison more than two years ago, she has remained in Spain in an undisclosed location and has only been saved from homelessness by the kindness of friends.
She can’t move on because she still doesn’t know what happened to her husband in spite of a September ruling this year from a Catalan court that John McAfee died by suicide and that the case was effectively closed.
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Joe Lubin explains what really happened in 2014 when two co-founders were pushed out and how Ethereum really is becoming the “World…..
