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College Dropouts Who Weathered Crypto’s Crash See Promise Ahead
When Carson Case, a computer science major, dropped out of the University of Nevada, Reno to pursue a crypto career in 2020, he didn’t have much of a plan. The then-sophomore just knew he didn’t want to waste any more time in college. He found success as a freelancer using Solidity, a programming language for creating “smart” blockchain contracts, and made about $300,000 in two years. “Crypto was often my go-to idea for anything — I liked it, and I understood it,” Case, 23, said. “I was high on bull-run optimism.” In May 2022, he started his own decentralized finance, or DeFi, project. But it ... (full story)