After Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) agreed to plead guilty and step down as CEO of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, the crypto world fiercely debated the future of the company he founded in 2017.
Cults of personality are not new to the tech or cryptocurrency industries, where figures like SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have amassed scores of followers and can move markets with a single tweet. For his part, CZ shaped much of the online conversation around crypto, including creating the…