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Thousands of people will be in attendance at CoinDesk's 2018 Consensus conference in May, but Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin will not be among them.

On Thursday, the 24-year-old said on Twitter he would boycott this year's conference, and encouraged others to follow suit. Here's the full story.

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