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5 Years After the $500K Ethereum Wager Between Joe Lubin and Jimmy Song, Who Won?

The wager made at Consensus 2018 between the two blockchain eminences hinged on how far Ethereum adoption would get by now. Crypto analysts say the network appears to have met a key threshold, or at least gotten very close.

Joe Lubin (left), co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of ConsenSys, with bitcoin advocate Jimmy Song and former CoinDesk reporter Brady Dale, at CoinDesk's Consensus conference in 2018. (CoinDesk)
Joe Lubin (left), co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of ConsenSys, with bitcoin advocate Jimmy Song and former CoinDesk reporter Brady Dale, at CoinDesk's Consensus conference in 2018. (CoinDesk)