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Re: Cryptocurrency Startup School

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A startup school for a singular technical solution that has now gone years without any demonstrable killer app and which faces immense scaling and regulatory hurdles seems like putting the cart well before the horse here. I very much doubt that the key roadblock to realizing the crypto dream has been the lack of availability of a startup school around it.

They are probably desperate to prevent all their investments in the crypto sector to fizzle out. A scenario more likely by the day.

Re: Cryptocurrency Startup School

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A startup school for a singular technical solution that has now gone years without any demonstrable killer app and which faces immense scaling and regulatory hurdles seems like putting the cart well before the horse here. I very much doubt that the key roadblock to realizing the crypto dream has been the lack of availability of a startup school around it.

Agreed, this one's a head scratcher

Re: Cryptocurrency Startup School

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A startup school for a singular technical solution that has now gone years without any demonstrable killer app and which faces immense scaling and regulatory hurdles seems like putting the cart well before the horse here. I very much doubt that the key roadblock to realizing the crypto dream has been the lack of availability of a startup school around it.

Perhaps you're right, but so what? If they're funding it, and folks are interested in trying it out, what's the worst that can happen? Best case some new innovation comes out, worse case they end up back where they started. Journey and not the destination and all that.

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A startup school for a singular technical solution that has now gone years without any demonstrable killer app and which faces immense scaling and regulatory hurdles seems like putting the cart well before the horse here. I very much doubt that the key roadblock to realizing the crypto dream has been the lack of availability of a startup school around it.

I work in crypto space myself and I can tell that this space is really interesting. Both technical and business challenges are quite unique.

Here's just a quick recap of different, new business models https://medium.com/abridged-io/web3-business-models-in-the-w...

IMO things like DeFi are finally a good use case for blockchain.

So yeah, I think this a good idea to create a startup school focused on new, different area witch can disrupt the finance sector.

Disclaimer: I work for MakerDAO.

Re: Cryptocurrency Startup School

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A startup school for a singular technical solution that has now gone years without any demonstrable killer app and which faces immense scaling and regulatory hurdles seems like putting the cart well before the horse here. I very much doubt that the key roadblock to realizing the crypto dream has been the lack of availability of a startup school around it.

I work in crypto space myself and I can tell that this space is really interesting. Both technical and business challenges are quite unique. Here's just a quick recap of different, new business models https://medium.com/abridged-io/web3-business-models-in-the-w... IMO things like DeFi are finally a good use case for blockchain. So yeah, I think this a good idea to create a startup school focused on new, different are…

No one ever said the space is not interesting. It's just goes against human nature and how the world operates.

The difference between a failed idea and a successful one is very often simply timing. Things that were complete nonsense in the dot com bubble are billion dollar businesses now. The crypto space is not for this time (imo).

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