Anyone who has cruised through Austin over the last year has seen the billboards. No, not the “move to Ohio” billboards that make fun of Austin. The crypto ones. Anyone stuck on I-35 — 100% of its passengers — passing through the city wouldn’t be crazy to think that formerly sleepy Austin was downright obsessed with non-fiat currency.
As a matter of fact, the billboards in Austin have largely skewed toward three categories as of late: Ohio, crypto, and lawyers, specifically ones that rock and ones who will earn you millions if a truck plows into your home. Amid the crypto crash, it appears that the state of Ohio’s for-profit economic development corporation and local lawyers have eliminated the competition.
The author of the tweet, an Austin resident named David Logan, tells MySA that his tweet wasn’t merely in jest; he has seen multiple crypto billboards removed and replaced in recent weeks. Local personal injury lawyer Adam Loewy of Loewy Law Firm confirms that the crypto market falling has opened up space for lawyers like himself.
“The collapse of crypto has lead to an enormous buying opportunity in the billboard space,” he tells MySA. “I’ve contracted for 25 boards in the Austin area.”
It follows Consensus 2022, the “SXSW of crypto” that descended upon Austin earlier this month. At that event, attended by thousands upon thousands of blockchain, web3, and crypto industry workers and speculators, the mood skewed toward hopefulness even as the market cratered. It’s gotten worse since then; just today Reuters reported…
Anyone who has cruised through Austin over the last year has seen the billboards. No, not the “move to Ohio” billboards that make fun of Austin. The crypto ones. Anyone stuck on I-35 — 100% of its passengers — passing through the city wouldn’t be crazy to think that formerly sleepy Austin was downright obsessed with non-fiat currency.
As a matter of fact, the billboards in Austin have largely skewed toward three categories as of late: Ohio, crypto, and lawyers, specifically ones that rock and ones who will earn you millions if a truck plows into your home. Amid the crypto crash, it appears that the state of Ohio’s for-profit economic development corporation and local lawyers have eliminated the competition.
The author of the tweet, an Austin resident named David Logan, tells MySA that his tweet wasn’t merely in jest; he has seen multiple crypto billboards removed and replaced in recent weeks. Local personal injury lawyer Adam Loewy of Loewy Law Firm confirms that the crypto market falling has opened up space for lawyers like himself.
“The collapse of crypto has lead to an enormous buying opportunity in the billboard space,” he tells MySA. “I’ve contracted for 25 boards in the Austin area.”
It follows Consensus 2022, the “SXSW of crypto” that descended upon Austin earlier this month. At that event, attended by thousands upon thousands of blockchain, web3, and crypto industry workers and speculators, the mood skewed toward hopefulness even as the market cratered. It’s gotten worse since then; just today Reuters reported…Read Morelocal_news
