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I think 2018 was the year of FinTech, which translates mostly to "altcoins".

I was looking for a job in the summer of 2018 and that's what all the ads were for. Ended up working for an ISP though, which was nice.



Haven’t seen any “Web 3” shills for a long time, gone right out of style it has!


Didn't stop YC from funding almost 100 of them[0] including signal boosting[1] this obvious scam that blatantly ripped off another's website and company too.[2]

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?tags=Crypto%20%2F%20We...

[1] https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1517556338750074881?lang=en

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686140


Scroll back far enough on the X timelines of a few AI evangelists/specialists/advisers: oop, there they are. NFTs, Ethereum, altcoins.


Gotta do something with all those GPUs


Yeah I just assumed this was the case lol


Everyone spent the cash they were going to invest into startups on NFTs, I guess.




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