Apr 16, 2024

Crypto: The Game founder and creator Dylan Abruscato answers five rapid-fire questions from CoinDesk, including takeaways from playing Crypto: The Game, Abruscato's crypto genesis story, and his excitement around on-chain social.

Video transcript

Describe crypto the game in one sentence, cut throat. If you weren't building crypto the game, what would you be doing? Building a different on chain reality show? What lesson do you hope people take away from playing the game? It is so much more fun than you could ever imagine. How did you get into Crypto first bought and sold, you know, Bitcoin and Ethereum and probably 2017 as a customer. Um But my first like holy moment was when I minted my first NFT I grew up like a huge baseball card collector still am. And that feeling of seeing what you got in the kind of the post reveal phase was something that I only ever felt when opening a pack of cards. And that's kind of when the light bulb went off outside of the game. What excites you the most about the industry, I think on chain social and the ability to kind of like port your personality and your following over to different platforms.

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