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I've found the closest analog to these early years of crypto were the early years of social media.  Discovering extremely powerful emotional responses triggered from a CRUD database was like discovering nuclear power from these tiny pellets of uranium.  This echos the powerful incentivization enabled by the discovery of digital scarcity.

Back in 2006-2012 you had thousands of startups of various sizes building all sorts of variations of social media.  In my YC batch during this period, half the startups were working on mobile social media apps of some sort.  (SoLoMo, MoLoSo, etc.).  There were plenty of high concept, big raise startups that were pure narrative and crashed.  There were weekend projects that ended up gaining viral traction and raising VC funding within 72 hours of launch.  (Remember Yo?).

Builder behind /ethxy and /sexy!  https://ethxy.com.  MIT 6-3.  a16z CSS ’23. YC alum.