When I started at Coinbase in 2018 this sentiment from Hayden is exactly what triggered tech journalists about crypto. In the midst of the great techlash post-2016 election, the financialization of everything freaked everyone out about what tech people wree up to even more than "election interference" and "misinformation." Capitalism was more of a bad word then than it is now. 

The reason crypto as a frontier technology movement is winning is because we have not backed down from an unabashed embrace of these values and the view that the financial incentives onchain platforms provide are better than *waves hands* all this. Never back down.

When I started at Coinbase in 2018 this sentiment from Hayden is exactly what triggered tech journalists about crypto. In the midst of the great techlash post-2016 election, the financialization of everything freaked everyone out about what tech people wree up to even more than "election interference" and "misinformation." Capitalism was more of a bad word then than it is now. 

The reason crypto as a frontier technology movement is winning is because we have not backed down from an unabashed embrace of these values and the view that the financial incentives onchain platforms provide are better than *waves hands* all this. Never back down. 

https://x.com/haydenzadams/status/1827060573793640735

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I’ve thought about this as “ubiquitous markets”. Philosophically I backlash but it’s sort of like being mad at spoken languages. It’s not something being pushed on people - it’s part of what makes our species what it is. Further I would say that dogmatically maintaining an “anti-crypto” posture (NYTimes) is a disservice to the people and stifles the democratization of market structures (whose control are still very highly controlled).