He likes to cite Lambos—as in Lamborghini, the cryptobro trophy ride of choice—as shorthand for the excessive trappings of wealth, which do not interest him.
2019, John Hargrave, Blockchain for Everyone: How I Learned the Secrets of the New Millionaire Class (And You Can, Too), page 297:
"When it comes to blockchain, never invest more than you can afford to lose. One hundred percent. High-risk gambling, day trading, speculating—that's the way of the crypto bros."
2019, Scott Indrisek, "Paint It Loud", GQ, September 2019, page 153:
She'd rather bitch about the way crypto-bros have driven up rents in San Juan, […]
2019, Jemima Kelly, "Is bitocoin really an 'uncorrelated safe haven'?", BusinessDay, 20 November 2019, page 51:
It turns out though, that the New York crypto bros aren't the only ones pushing the “uncorrelated safe haven” idea.
2020, Brendan January, Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain Revolution: Bitcoin and Beyond, unnumbered page:
Crypto supporters, or cryptobros, urged the SEC to approve a Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2020, Jeff John Roberts, Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street, unnumbered page:
For everyone else, it meant “crypto bros looking for a tax haven.”
2021, Jonathan Beller, The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism, pages 251:
Clearly, this task cannot be left to white guys, to white crypto-bros.
2021, Michael Mechanic, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All, unnumbered page:
Crypto bros defend the imbalance by noting that women are more risk-averse than men.
2021, John Dyall, "Like it or not, Bitcoin is here to stay", Financial Standard, 8 March 2021, page 26:
Some of this is a branding exercise, with brands like Tesla wanting to be associated with the sort of people that would hold Bitcoin (shoutout to the “crypto bros” reading this!)
2022 December 22, Jemima Kelly, “What this year in crypto has taught us”, in Financial Times[1]:
And I guess I do feel a certain sense of vindication at seeing the market start to implode, having stood my ground against numerous crypto bros telling me to “have fun staying poor”. But I have been reluctant to write an “I told you so”, because I’m not sure that I really did.
