Ask HN: Have you ever worked with a blockchain company that wasn't a scam?
backstory: I'm sure this will sound familiar to a lot of you. Someone contacted me in response to a HN post I made seeking a role as a product manager. They contacted me for a position at a blockchain company. It was very hard to reach them by replying to their mail. After several attempts on my part, we finally got the ball rolling with Google meet meetings, agreeing on terms, adding me to the discord, etc. I met the team virtually, which gave me confidence that this could be something real. They had an interesting idea and I was keen to work with them to bring it to market. Then they started ghosting me, their discord went dead, they missed their meetings, mail went unanswered, and their front page has the same prominent typos as we talked about fixing in our first meetings. Now it feels like a scam, which sounds like what I've read about with several blockchain companies. I invoiced them but don't really expect to be paid for the time I've spent working for them, chasing them for responses I never got and attending empty meetings they missed.
My question is, should I just blacklist any contact with blockchain companies? Have any of you ever worked with a blockchain company that wasn't a scam?
Everyone has their own standards but for me "not a scam" means that it delivered value to customers on par with a normal startup that doesn't have blockchain anywhere in its name or offering. i.e. if it is a blockchain shoe company, is anyone actually wearing a shoe they bought from them that they sold and shipped, like a non-blockchain shoe company would deliver.