Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss that Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not an anti-blockchain conspiracy
lashing out at skeptics in a way usually reserved for CEOs of fraudulent companies. How did we get here? 1/ https://twitter.com/... Ben McKenzie / @ben_mckenzie : One interesting vibe shift is people criticizing what they suspect - with evidence - may amount to fraud even when they aren't personally profiting from committing fraud. https://twitter.com/... Joey D'Urso / @josephmdurso : I'll keep criticising crypto for as long as footballers and their clubs keep trying to fleece their fans with it. https://twitter.com/... Edward Ongweso Jr / @bigblackjacobin : it's a bit suspicious people are criticizing—for free—something I am directing billions of dollars into https://twitter.com/... Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : @sriramk Given that the term “web2” is being used for web development by those working in crypto, and “web3” marketed as the future of the web, it's only fair that those of us who work in web, but don't believe “web3” to be the future due to fundamental problems - we voice this. https://twitter.com/... @alexhern : @broderick One of the reasons the latest crypto boom was so dull to watch is that “crypto sucks” was a boring banal truth by 2016 and it hasn't got any less boring or true since @alexhern : Something I keep trying to articulate is the fundamental asymmetry in crypto discussions, where skeptics inevitably flame out after a few years because we run out of things to say Aaron Levie / @levie : @sriramk 👋 I was an innocent bystander of crypto until folks started saying “web3” would revolutionize the web. Which means friends, customers, and investors start asking me if it matters. Which means I now have to get involved, and I don't take tech nor bubbles lightly, so I dove in. Will Oremus / @willoremus : the crypto discussion was dominated for so long by people who *did* have a vested interest in making the numbers go up that they now struggle to grasp the existence of critics without skin in the game https://t.co/iaEGdcI6Le Molly White / @molly0xfff : one interesting vibe shift is the rise of “environmentalists”. folks who speak out against fossil fuels even when their day job isn't at an oil company. https://twitter.com/... @can : isn't unsurprising that people who don't believe in the crypto industry do not indeed work in the crypto industry? https://twitter.com/...
One interesting vibe shift is the rise of the ‘anti-crypto media personality’. Folks who do the podcast/press/TV hit circuit purely on their opposition to web3 - even when their day job has nothing to do with crypto in any sense.
There certainly is a rise in the number of people in varied day jobs for whom the proposition of doing things on web3 platforms or with crypto would just functionally worse/slower/more expensive than how they do it now. https://twitter.com/...
A couple of years ago, @markessien correctly noted that crypto has a design problem. It is not doing what people claim that it is doing properly. That is because it wasn't designed to do those things. It wasn't designed at all. https://www.garbageday.email/ ...
As far as I am concerned, many things in crypto are being pushed as products or features when they are actually infrastructure or an incomplete backend. Crypto lacks a decent frontend and the backend also sucks. It is currently somewhere in the middle. https://www.garbageday.emai…
Sentence of the year 2022: “Anyone who is breathlessly telling you Web3 is the future of anything has either never used any of the technology they're promoting, doesn't understand how it works on a fundamental level, is lying to themselves, is lying to you, or all of the above.” …
You can't solve a problem if you don't admit that it exists. The web3 ecosystem would be infinitely better if it took critiques seriously, rather than creating this conspiracy narrative. https://twitter.com/...
A big rebuttal when you say that Web3 sucks absolute shit is that it's still early, but Ethereum first came online in 2016. Which means that what we consider “Web3” is about as old as web 2.0 was when the first tweet was sent. What if it just sucks? https://www.garbageday.email/ …
This is hilarious but for real what I'm gathering from this is the grand crypto games dream is...shared currencies across games? And the ability to farm for something used in an entirely different, unreleased game? All of which does not need the blockchain anyway? https://twitter…
One interesting vibe shift is people willing to speak truth to power, with independence/objectivity and for no financial gain, even when they suffer vitriol and deaths threats as a result. Meanwhile, others profit exponentially, b/c their views align with their balance sheets. ht…
The moment any crypto-based technology proves any basic reason to exist will be when people use it with no expectation of it making them rich. Absolutely nothing on the market comes close to meeting this low bar. https://twitter.com/...
we're about as far away from the start of Ethereum as we were from technologist Darcy DiNucci coining the term “web 2.0” in 1999 when the first tweet was sent in 2006 https://www.garbageday.email/ ...
It's sort of funny how deeply this whole web3 thing set the hook with VCs. They're squirming a little bit now — lashing out at skeptics in a way usually reserved for CEOs of fraudulent companies. How did we get here? 1/ https://twitter.com/...
One interesting vibe shift is people criticizing what they suspect - with evidence - may amount to fraud even when they aren't personally profiting from committing fraud. https://twitter.com/...
@sriramk Given that the term “web2” is being used for web development by those working in crypto, and “web3” marketed as the future of the web, it's only fair that those of us who work in web, but don't believe “web3” to be the future due to fundamental problems - we voice this. …
@broderick One of the reasons the latest crypto boom was so dull to watch is that “crypto sucks” was a boring banal truth by 2016 and it hasn't got any less boring or true since
Something I keep trying to articulate is the fundamental asymmetry in crypto discussions, where skeptics inevitably flame out after a few years because we run out of things to say
@sriramk 👋 I was an innocent bystander of crypto until folks started saying “web3” would revolutionize the web. Which means friends, customers, and investors start asking me if it matters. Which means I now have to get involved, and I don't take tech nor bubbles lightly, so I dov…