“- On one hand you have "Brooklyn Crypto" which is holier than thou, ships "vibes" and is full of Farcaster maxis - On the other hand you have "Manhattan Crypto" which is where anyone is welcome at meetups, people ship cool shit, alt-VMs and Solana are welcome, and seems to be dominated by X dot com enjoyers” this is real asf and i think best understood as finance-/tech-first understanding of crypto. what he is calling “manhattan crypto” is really people who see crypto primarily as a financial asset that benefits from all market participation. they want to do finance and find crypto to be a convenient place to do it. what he is calling “brooklyn crypto” is really people who see crypto primarily as a technology with more political goals. they believe there is a right and wrong way to engage with crypto and are unsatisfied with purely financial applications of the tech. they’re more dogmatic.