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The article mentions "Filecoin", whatever that is.

It mentions it as one of the well-known outputs of a company he consults for. I am confident that he is not working on a cryptocurrency at all.

If your definition of "crypto bro" is so broad to include "receives money from any person or company that has ever incidentally done anything with cryptocurrency" you've basically painted the entire industry that way.

Just because it mentions "Filecoin, whatever that is" doesn't imply that he's working in cryptocurrency.

I use "crypto bro" to describe people who actively work/invest in cryptocurrency directly and/or evangelize it. This usage does not intersect with Filippo at all.

> any person or company that has ever incidentally done anything with cryptocurrency

But Filecoin IS a cryptocurrency. It's not merely "incidental".

Of course it is. Cryptography libraries can be used for lots of things. If one of his clients uses them for cryptocurrency, it is incidental.

Look again at the logos prominently displayed in the blog post. There's nothing incidental here and you don't get to make that kind of money otherwise...

That still doesn't make him a "crypto bro", any more than those companies using cloud providers makes the cloud providers cryptocurrency specific. They require stuff that's pretty universally applicable.

Or change my mind and show me which of his projects is cryptocurrency-specific.

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