Why We Should Stop Thinking of ‘Crypto’ as a Single Industry

Enterprise blockchains, central bank digital currencies, digital collectibles, DeFi and bitcoin. How much do they really have to do with one another?

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The "crypto" industry is having a hard time fitting everything that’s happening inside that one monolithic term. On this episode, @nlw looks at current news stories from across at least five different categories - DeFi, enterprise blockchain, central bank digital currencies, digital collectibles and bitcoin (BTC) - to ask whether they really all belong lumped in in the same category.

The episode also looks at:

Four reasons these increasingly different categories remain bunched together
Why turning other parts of the industry into an enemy is rewarded in the public sphere
Why letting individual parts of the industry evolve individually is likely to bring more, not fewer, resources into the space

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