Solomon Lederer is not boring. The former Orthodox Jew and computer science Ph.D. was fired from Morgan Stanley after his attempt to create some type of IRL social network on the subway landed him in the Wall Street Journal and now he’s opened what we believe is the country’s first blockchain coworking space. He hopes to eventually run the space as a decentralized autonomous organization, where members vote equally on how it should be managed and operated.

“When I first started reading about bitcoin a few years ago, I thought, This is the future,” Lederer said in an interview. “It allows a whole other layer of systems, sort of how the internet itself is a great communication layer, this blockchain thing is creating a new kind of computer, it’s like a computer layer that sits on the internet.”

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