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Ethereum’s New Cheerleader on Wall Street: A Q&A With Vivek Raman Vivek Raman, the founder of Etherealize, spent 10 years on Wall Street. Now he’s trying to market Ethereum to big banks.

He Was a Hillary Clinton Cheerleader. Now He Calls Democrats a Threat. Peter Daou, a former Democratic activist, is running Cornel West’s third-party campaign. He talked to The New York Times about how he came to view the two-party system as a bigger problem than Donald J. Trump.