19-year-old MIT dropout quits crypto job to launch new fund
California-based Charles Noyes, who dropped out of MIT after one year, is quitting his job at crypto hedge fund Pantera Capital to help launch a digital-currency fund. The 19-year-old, who started mining Bitcoin in 2011, will partner Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of crypto exchange Coinbase and Matt Huang, former partner at venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, which will back the new company.