Is Crypto Fintech? It Depends Who You Ask

Leah Callon-Butler

Updated Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 9:25 AM

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fintech is a sector, an industry that regroups a collection of businesses, startups, applications.
Crypto is a discipline: science, philosophy and of course a community.
I will give an example: collectibles and crypto art are part of “crypto” but I don’t believe they fit in “fintech”fintech is finance + technology.
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