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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?

By David Z. Morris

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)