The other night I lay curled up in bed, sobbing. “Now what?” asked my wife.
“Nothing!” I lied.
“Are the Twitter boys being mean again?” she asked, giving me a hug.
“No!” I lied again. In fact, yes: earlier in the day, two O.G. web influencers that I have admired and followed for years had been very mean about crypto.
It started when one of them, a Web 2 guy with 580k followers, tweeted that virtually every project on a blockchain is a fraud. “There’s no value in using those technologies,” he said.
Then the other fellow, one of the original Mosaic developers, tweeted that tech journalists have “a complete immunity to shame.”
As an O.G. tech journalist and co-founder of Decrypt, I was doubly stung, and tweeted back in defense. Surely they remembered being disruptors themselves, back when the ignoranti attacked the infant internet, dismissing it as a money-making fad…
But this only escalated the hostility. “Oh, FFS,” replied the former Mosaic guy. “Crypt

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