Zillan’s rhetoric, however, is slightly at odds with the image he’s cultivated online — both his website and his Instagram page capitalize on the «get rich quick» zeitgeist of the cryptocurrency community. When Eddy Zillan started trading in cryptocurrencies three years ago, he was 15 — too young to open an account on the trading platform Coinbase, which requires its users to be at least 18 years old. Usually when this happens the developers have reserved a certain amount of coins for themselves for a particular reason. Get off your Instagram. But then again, once bitcoin gets useful, will it be sexy enough for anybody to care how much you have? When I tended bar, one of my jobs had me serving VIPs at fundraisers and important receptions. As his gains inched higher, Zillan was reading about cryptocurrencies obsessively, sometimes spending hours a day on cryptocurrency forums or chatting with other investors online.