What Ryan Broderick thinks about crypto

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1. 14 Oct 2026

   Our readingThe 2020 crypto boom changed how money works on the internet by creating a grifter capitalism that spreads across social media, not by winning people over to Bitcoin and blockchains.

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   Their wordsIt turns out the 2020 crypto boom did fundamentally change the way money worked on the internet, just not in the way its biggest evangelists had hoped. Instead of convincing the general population to embrace Bitcoin and blockchains, it created a new form of grifter capitalism that is spreading across social media

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