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Taylor Monahan on Crypto’s Divergent Possibilities in 2020
Why 2020 represents a fundamental dividing line between cypherpunk crypto and government & corporate co-opted crypto.
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 11:53 a.m. Published Jan 1, 2020, 8:00 p.m. 1 min read

Taylor Monahan is the founder and CEO of MyCrypto. In this interview as part of The Breakdown’s end of year coverage, she argues that the level of discourse in crypto matured in 2019, with more focus on things that actually matter.
That’s important, because in 2020, she predicts a major fork-in-the-road moment, where the industry as a whole could either stay on the path set out in its cypherpunk roots, or be significantly co-opted and corrupted by the entrance of corporate and government actors into the space.
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