Citations:cryptobro

English citations of cryptobro, crypto-bro, and crypto bro

Noun: "(slang, sometimes derogatory) an enthusiastic male cryptocurrency supporter, especially a dogmatic, condescending one"

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• 2018, Nick Paumgarten, "The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust", 22 October 2018 issue:

  He likes to cite Lambos—as in Lamborghini, the cryptobro trophy ride of choice—as shorthand for the excessive trappings of wealth, which do not interest him.

• 2019, John Hargrave, Blockchain for Everyone: How I Learned the Secrets of the New Millionaire Class (And You Can, Too), page 297:

  "When it comes to blockchain, never invest more than you can afford to lose. One hundred percent. High-risk gambling, day trading, speculating—that's the way of the crypto bros."

• 2019, Scott Indrisek, "Paint It Loud", GQ, September 2019, page 153:

  She'd rather bitch about the way crypto-bros have driven up rents in San Juan, […]

• 2019, Jemima Kelly, "Is bitocoin really an 'uncorrelated safe haven'?", BusinessDay, 20 November 2019, page 51:

  It turns out though, that the New York crypto bros aren't the only ones pushing the “uncorrelated safe haven” idea.

• 2020, Brendan January, Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain Revolution: Bitcoin and Beyond, unnumbered page:

  Crypto supporters, or cryptobros, urged the SEC to approve a Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).

• 2020, Jeff John Roberts, Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street, unnumbered page:

  For everyone else, it meant “crypto bros looking for a tax haven.”

• 2021, Jonathan Beller, The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism, pages 251:

  Clearly, this task cannot be left to white guys, to white crypto-bros.

• 2021, Michael Mechanic, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All, unnumbered page:

  Crypto bros defend the imbalance by noting that women are more risk-averse than men.

• 2021, John Dyall, "Like it or not, Bitcoin is here to stay", Financial Standard, 8 March 2021, page 26:

  Some of this is a branding exercise, with brands like Tesla wanting to be associated with the sort of people that would hold Bitcoin (shoutout to the “crypto bros” reading this!)

• 2022 December 22, Jemima Kelly, “What this year in crypto has taught us”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

  And I guess I do feel a certain sense of vindication at seeing the market start to implode, having stood my ground against numerous crypto bros telling me to “have fun staying poor”. But I have been reluctant to write an “I told you so”, because I’m not sure that I really did.