Why We Should Stop Thinking of 'Crypto' as a Single Industry

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Enterprise blockchains, central bank digital currencies, digital collectibles, DeFi and bitcoin.

How much do they really have to do with one another?

For early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, IHeartRadio or RSS.The "Crypto" industry is having a hard time fitting everything that's happening inside that one monolithic term.

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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