Reflecting back on this time. It was such a big reason for why I jumped into crypto.
The potential for crowdfunded money to activate a global innovation wave was and is profoundly important. The vibe was electric for a while.
We need to run it back.

I’ve been saying this for about 7 years. To this day, I find it insane that we could get so close to actually decentralising capital formation with ICOs and then completely abandon it because the first wave of mechanisms were garbage and the SEC said “boo!”. x.com/qwqiao/status/…

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