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‘Get a Horse!’: What Crypto Can Learn From Early Automakers' Struggle for Acceptance

Automotive pioneers were surrounded by fraudsters, hated by banks and attacked by trolls. Sound familiar?

Updated Jun 14, 2024, 3:39 p.m. Published Jul 19, 2023, 4:38 p.m.
old timey car (Wikimedia Commons)
The family of Clarence Britten Blethen, editor and later publisher of the Seattle Times newspaper, in a 1912 Winton Model K automobile. In his later years, creator Alexander Winton recalled struggles against frauds, skeptics and patent trolls that are still familiar to innovators today. (Wikimedia Commons)