The Wall Street Journal
Jun 15, 2022 - 16 min
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How did Silicon Valley become so obsessed with crypto? After years of obsessing over the mantra "make something people want", which spawned billion-dollar companies including Facebook and Youtube, Silicon Valley appears to have moved away from the advice that made it a dominant economic force. Max Chafkin discusses how the lure of financialisation led to a crypto obsession.