2017–2019
Boom, Bust, Build
ICO supercycle, forks, and a brutal winter that leaves builders only.
Part 5
Chapters in this part
- 5.1 ICO supercycle Billions raised on whitepapers; regulators warm up.
- 5.2 Bitcoin forks & civil wars Blocksize wars fracture the culture; BCH, SegWit2x drama.
- 5.3 Exchanges go pro Binance hyper-growth, Coinbase scale, BitMEX invents the casino perps.
- 5.4 Stablecoins rise USDT controversies and USDC/regulated rivals take shape.
- 5.5 Security wars SIM swaps, exchange hacks, bug bounties become survival tools.
- 5.6 Crypto winter 2018 crash clears the room; infra and DeFi proto-builders keep going.