{"id":50458,"date":"2020-05-13T00:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/?p=50458"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:42:07","slug":"crypto-under-corona-from-venezuela-to-liberland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/news\/crypto-under-corona-from-venezuela-to-liberland\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Under Corona: From Venezuela to Liberland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"node-0\" class=\"article-pharagraph\">\n<p class=\"text \">For nearly two years I traveled around the world and wrote about the subcultures of blockchain \u2013 from Bali to Budapest, from Serbia to Switzerland. I planned to continue the journey. I imagined I\u2019d be traveling to far-flung places this summer, reporting on global blockchain projects for CoinDesk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"node-1\" class=\"article-pharagraph\">\n<p class=\"text \">Then came COVID-19. Since the word \u201ctravel\u201d is now a glum anachronism \u2013 maybe our grandkids will be able to experience this thing they call \u201ctravel\u201d \u2013 like everyone else I\u2019m holed up in an apartment, staring at screens. But I was curious. How is the global crypto community, or at least the community that I know, handling the pandemic? How has the coronavirus impacted their daily lives, their projects, their outlook on blockchain? So I checked in with a few of my old crypto friends to get a bit of a pulse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"node-2\" class=\"article-pharagraph\">\n<p class=\"text \">Of course, this is not meant to be an exhaustive, scientific survey of global themes \u2013 (good luck with that) \u2013 but it does give a window into some voices that are rarely heard, and a glimpse of everyday life from the wider blockchain world. A few themes emerge. The biggest: In many ways blockchain projects are faring better during CV19, and are more optimistic, than the non-blockchain world. Many people in the space are simply\u00a0<em>wired\u00a0<\/em>for this kind of thing. \u201cCrypto has a bunch of semi-Asperger-ey people,\u201d said one blockchain entrepreneur. \u201cThey\u2019re loving this. They\u2019re loving the excuse to not leave the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"node-4\" class=\"article-pharagraph\">\n<p class=\"text \">Or to be more charitable, the blockchain space is a mix of idealists, dreamers, builders, risk takers and many who were already expecting the collapse of civilization. Blockchain has already survived scare after scare, crash after crash. 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