As someone who just started a crypto publication (Crypto Spotlight), I have to disagree that “…crypto will be divorced from Medium”. There seems to be plenty of interest in crypto on Medium and many of the crypto projects I follow still regularly post on here with project updates. I have some qualms with Medium’s curation process, but both my crypto and non-crypto stories have been curated, which has really helped spread my writing to a much wider audience than I could have ever done on other writing platforms. I don’t believe Medium sucks either and I feel it is absolutely worth the $5 a month to read good content on here compared to paying much more for cable and having to listen to the mainstream media BS. Paywalls are a necessary evil in my opinion to make everyone happy.