Discussion

• @mccarthyryanj Ryan McCarthy on x

  Quite a feat for the Web3 zealots who attacked BuzzFeed's reporting to misunderstand - or ignore - this many basic facts at once. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @maxwellstrachan Maxwell on x

  @katienotopoulos I asked @molly0xFFF of @web3isgreat about the anger over the BuzzFeed piece and the role of pseudonymity and found her answer enlightening https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @tommyk_eth @tommyk_eth on x

  Privacy is a human right. https://twitter.com/...

• @uglygame Martin Calladine on x

  This brilliantly distills the wishful thinking at the heart of web3. I know of a DAO claiming they're going to buy an EFL club whose founders refuse to identify themselves, citing privacy concerns. 1/ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @hkesvani @hkesvani on x

  the QTs to this are worth reading - lots of Web3/ NFT guys are mad that journalists aren't PR people and they also can't seem to understand why people would want to find out who created digital financial instruments that are being valued for millions https://twitter.com/...

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  “Tomorrow's culture wars will take place—are already taking place—in the world of web3.” https://www.vice.com/...

• @cobie @cobie on x

  @maxwellstrachan @katienotopoulos See: Sifu & Wonderland saga recently, or the couple that hacked Bitfinex. Do you see ppl spending their time outraged that they were doxxed? Of course not. The BAYC doxxing was using the popularity of BAYC to earn advertising revenue by compromis…

• @mikebeas Mike Beasley on x

  web3 sucks and the people promoting it suck more https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_koebler Jason Koebler on x

  This is a very smart piece about who is allowed to have opinions and the upcoming/already here exhausting culture war over web3 https://www.vice.com/...

• @alisoncroggon Alison Croggon on x

  “The rhetoric, the threats against a female reporter, and the general tone of grievance from a group of people who feel besieged even as society is reordering itself around their whims are all reminiscent of Gamergate”... Well this is bad https://twitter.com/...

• @cobie @cobie on x

  @maxwellstrachan @katienotopoulos Isn't it all just trying to farm clicks and advertising revenue by sensationalising the identity of people that preferred privacy and ... didn't do anything wrong? Did you notice how, when bad actors are doxxed, the crypto community is ~not~ prot…

• @maxwellstrachan Maxwell on x

  I tried to unpack why the crypto/NFT community was so righteously enraged by @katienotopoulos naming the founders of the extremely successful Bored Ape Yacht club; what that says about the ideological underpinnings of web3; and where we go from here. https://www.vice.com/...

• @s_m_i Stacy-Marie Ishmael on x

  Appreciate that this by @maxwellstrachan is written in a way that makes the misogyny of some of the commentary clear https://www.vice.com/...

• @cobie @cobie on x

  @maxwellstrachan @katienotopoulos If the reporters' work had uncovered some kind of relevant reason why these people's identities must be instantly revealed, sure, write your article. I think you can argue it's journalistically relevant or important.

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  until reading this story about the bored apes/buzzfeed drama i hadn't seen this remarkable series of tweets https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @will_humphrey Will Humphrey on x

  This is a very good piece. Not sure I'm entirely down with total anonymity, especially with the slugs of cash being tossed about. https://twitter.com/...

• @caseymalone Casey Malone on x

  It's so transparent that the rich want a decentralized pseudonymous future so they can avoid the metaphorical and literal guillotine and it makes me livid. https://www.vice.com/...

• @lil_smush Will Gottsegen on x

  “By Tuesday, Selkis had been invited onto Tucker Carlson's Fox News show for a jovial conversation. Soon after the segment started, he claimed that ‘crypto media can help with censorship.’ The question is who he's worried will be censored, and who he'd like to shut up.” https://t…

• @motherboard @motherboard on x

  The righteous anger over the identification of the founders of a popular NFT club says a lot about the web3 battles to come in the years ahead. https://www.vice.com/...

• @maxwellstrachan Maxwell on x

  God help me, I wrote about Bored Apes, BuzzFeed, “doxxing” and the oncoming culture war over web3 and the future of the internet https://www.vice.com/...

• @alex @alex on x

  this was very good https://www.vice.com/...

• @martinsfp Martin Sfp Bryant on x

  “The question then is when, exactly, public due diligence of organizations should begin: Now, or after the consequences of their creation are clear and unavoidable for all of us?” https://www.vice.com/...