They're just sitting at a different table.

In 2012, I started hosting Bitcoin meetups in Bangalore. Three people showed up to the first one. Strangers in a hotel lobby, talking about digital money most people thought was a scam.

By 2013, we had a thousand people at the Sheraton. By December, we'd launched Unocoin—India's first Bitcoin exchange.

My two co-founders? They were at those early meetups. Sitting at different tables.

The internet promised connection. Instead, it gave us isolation at scale. You can follow 10,000 people on Twitter and know none of them. You can join 50 Discord servers and belong to none of them.