Ethereum cofounder Gavin Wood apologizes for blog post about sex with preteen girl Eliza…

Ethereum cofounder Gavin Wood has apologized after a now-deleted blog post from 2013, in which he wrote about having sex with a dying preteen girl named Elizabeth, returned to haunt him.

Wood, who left Ethereum in 2016, tweeted a lengthy statement after BuzzFeed republished elements of his blog post, which first resurfaced on a Reddit cryptocurrency group last year. Wood said the story was a work of fiction. Business Insider has contacted Wood and Ethereum for comment.

In the now-deleted post from Wood’s old blog, “Insights Into a Modern World,” he describes having sex with a girl named Elizabeth. The post describes Elizabeth as a girl he used to babysit who contracts AIDS. According to BuzzFeed, Elizabeth, who would have been 11 or 12 in the story, then asks an 18-year-old Wood to have sex with her before she dies. The blog post then describes the sexual encounter.

Wood said in a statement that the account is entirely fictional and was intended to spark debate about the nature…