Blockchain bros are taking over SXSW 2018, because of course they are

Do you know anyone in blockchain? 

Ask any attendee of this year's South by Southwest, and they're bound to say they came across "a guy." When my friend and I asked that question to entrepreneurs and investors at Andreessen Horowitz cocktail reception on the first Saturday of SXSW, we were told to find "Kyle." We ended up meeting "John."

John Lin is an associate partner at Trinity Ventures. That night on the rooftop of Bob's Steak & Chop House in Austin, his friends and colleagues around him called him an expert in blockchain. But despite their verbal and physical enthusiasm, Lin did not come off as a blind champion of the technology.  Read more...