Get crypto and be happy as a mad scientist in the wild west of the gold market CAMBRIDGE — Step into the forgotten corridors of the University of Waterloo’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering and be transported back to the golden age of the internet. The building’s corridors are mostly empty, but the space is buzzing with the energy and enthusiasm of dozens of graduates who are busy designing the next generation of financial apps for the crypto market. Suman Sivaprakasam, a second-year graduate student, has redesigned a popular tool for helping users control their cryptocurrencies — called mining pool software. “I was like, why not? And they’re cool, and I was like: ‘This is kind of a cool idea,’” he said. “Just, like, I don’t know, do it.” Decentralized cryptocurrency is made up of a shared pool of computing resources around the world. As more people use a currency, it becomes more valuable. The traditional form of cryptocurrency used to be the Internet. There was no guarantee the

Get crypto and be happy as a mad scientist in the wild west of the gold market CAMBRIDGE — Step into the forgotten corridors of the University of Waterloo’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering and be transported back to the golden age of the internet. The building’s corridors are mostly empty, but the space is buzzing with the energy and enthusiasm of dozens of graduates who are busy designing the next generation of financial apps for the crypto market. Suman Sivaprakasam, a second-year graduate student, has redesigned a popular tool for helping users control their cryptocurrencies — called mining pool software. “I was like, why not? And they’re cool, and I was like: ‘This is kind of a cool idea,’” he said. “Just, like, I don’t know, do it.” Decentralized cryptocurrency is made up of a shared pool of computing resources around the world. As more people use a currency, it becomes more valuable. The traditional form of cryptocurrency used to be the Internet. There was no guarantee the