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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Article See new posts Conversation Dougie @DougieDeLuca Crypto is Dead 522 1.7K 6.3K 3.5M Crypto is dead. I don’t mean prices go to zero. I don’t mean chains stop producing blocks or stablecoins quietly vanish. I mean something very uncomfortable for people like me who’ve spent the better part of the last decade living inside this industry. I’ve built my career, my network, and a lot of my identity around “crypto.” I lived through the ICO boom, DeFi summer, NFT mania, the points meta, memecoins… pretty much all of it. In Telegram chats, on CT, at conferences, and in many founder calls where the starting assumption was the same: crypto is the center of the universe, the job is to make the universe bigger. What I believe now is almost the opposite. “Crypto” as a self-contained world is dying. The technology is about to dissolve into everything else, and the people who mistake the old bubble for the end state are goin

Crypto is dead. I don’t mean prices go to zero. I don’t mean chains stop producing blocks or stablecoins quietly vanish. I mean something very uncomfortable for people like me who’ve spent the better part of the last decade living inside this industry. I’ve built my career, my network, and a lot of my identity around “crypto.” I lived through the ICO boom, DeFi summer, NFT mania, the points meta, memecoins… pretty much all of it. In Telegram chats, on CT, at conferences, and in many founder calls where the starting assumption was the same: crypto is the center of the universe, the job is…

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