West Coast

Vancouver had and has a curiously large blockchain community. It's a Cascadian city. It has Canadian healthcare but West Coast libertarian leanings to some of its inhabitants' politics, and that makes for an interesting mix.

Rhea Myers, 2010s AI Art: Tyler Hobbs, Helena Sarin, Rhea Myers

Exactly, and the early Internet did feel really like West Coast punk in a weird way—cyberpunk, not in that Blade Runner-y way but that '90s Wired magazine way where you're hooking up stuff to your PC and trying to get on the Internet.

Matt Hall, Matt Hall and John Watkinson on Beginning Movements