Leo had been tracking since the days it was just a whitepaper by a teenage wunderkind named Vitalik Buterin. Back then, it was a 31-cent dream. Now, as he watched the ticker on Yahoo Finance , the price hovered near . It was a far cry from the
peak of August 2025, a crash fueled by recession fears and a high-profile sell-off by Buterin himself.
Why are all my friends buying an overhyped digital currency?
In the late hours of a humid Tuesday in April 2026, Leo sat before the amber glow of his dual-monitor setup. He wasn't looking at spreadsheets or code; he was looking at a "digital oil" rig.
