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Bitcoin and ethereum are such successes! On a smaller scale but growing, 0x is doing an amazing job.


What’s their end product to date besides speculation?


I'm thrilled to participate in building something that won't be government controlled. It's the same excitement I had when the web wasn't Facebook and Google.


It is in heavy use in black markets and for illegal enterprise such as ransom. So the product is successful transactions outside many laws.


The same can be said of cash. Can we agree that this has been played to death by now?


Cash can be used at tens of thousands of locations for non-shady uses. Same can’t be said of crypto.


Same can be said for the Internet, cars, cell phones, hell a paper and pen.




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