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Molly White

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48 articles stable

“Web3 Is Going Just Great” anchors Molly White’s coverage as a sustained critic of crypto’s incentives, failures, and political reach.

Who they are

Molly White appears in coverage as a prominent critic of Web3 and the crypto industry, best known here for running the site Web3 Is Going Just Great. Her role is analytical and adversarial: an HBR Q&A focused on blockchain privacy, abuse potential, and financial incentives, while her commentary has also challenged a16z’s State of Crypto 2023 report as propaganda.

The recent arc

Coverage first peaked in 2022Q2 amid the crypto boom, then became closely associated with the industry’s reversals and accountability stories, particularly FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. High-impact items include the jury’s conviction of Bankman-Fried on seven fraud and money-laundering counts and his subsequent 25-year sentence, placing White’s longstanding skepticism alongside the collapse of a major crypto business.

The tension

The central tension is between crypto’s promotional vision and White’s argument that its incentives and infrastructure create real harms. That dispute runs from her criticism of a16z’s industry report to broader commentator criticism of Web3, while FTX, Binance, Bitcoin, and Trump-linked crypto policy show how the debate has moved beyond product claims into enforcement, political influence, and institutional legitimacy.

Why it matters

If crypto’s political integration continues, White’s critique may remain relevant not simply as a postmortem on speculative failures but as scrutiny of who benefits from crypto policy and infrastructure. The recent focus on Binance founder Changpeng Zhao’s pardon, Trump-backed legislation, and Trump family-linked crypto activity suggests that the unresolved question is whether oversight can keep pace with the industry’s influence.

Molly White has appeared in 48 articles since 2022-02. Coverage peaked in 2023Q2 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Twitter, FTX, Trump, Elon.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-10-24
Wall Street Journal 35 related

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have anything to do with ...

2025-08-20
Citation Needed

A look at Justin Sun's lawsuit against Bloomberg for publishing his crypto assets, which he says he shared confidentially to qualify for its Billionaires Index

Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com , @darthbluesky , @molly.wiki , @...

2025-06-06
Bloomberg 9 related

Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet

This is less than an hour after Bloomberg reported that the World Liberty Financial project sent a cease and desist to both the memecoin project and Magic Eden. … X: Molly White / @molly0xfff : The Tr...

2025-04-27
The Free Press 22 related

Leaked letter: Ed Martin, the interim US Attorney for DC, accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status

Wikipedia Bluesky: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse / @whitehouse.senate.gov : Where is the referral from IRS?  I've been told for years that DOJ does not investigate IRS matters without a referral.  More w...

2024-12-15
The Block 13 related

Justin Sun's BiT Global, which recently became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for planning to delist wBTC after launching rival cbBTC

as set out plainly in the text you yourself cite. I look forward to your deposition under oath in California. No need to bring your banana. H.E. Justin Sun / @justinsuntron : It seems that Coinbase's ...

2024-05-29
The Block 22 related

A US judge sentences former FTX executive Ryan Salame to 7.5 years after he pled guilty to criminal charges over political contributions and more in 2023

But He Can Keep His Porsche X: Ryan Salame / @rsalame7926 : @eigenfxn ... I didn't steal shit, the government and all the cooperating witnesses said I didn't. Ryan Salame / @rsalame7926 : hot damn, th...

2024-03-29
Reuters 74 related

A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+

Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cited by Judge - Ellison...

2023-11-04
TechCrunch 93 related

A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024

and what comes next Qadir AK / Coinpedia Fintech News : DOJ Cracks Down: Binance and Tether Face Terrorism Financing Charges PC Gamer : ‘The king of crypto’ found guilty of fraud, now faces decades in...

2023-10-14
New York Times 17 related

In five hours of cross-examination, SBF's lawyer did not elicit any revelations or inconsistencies from Caroline Ellison, who said SBF made “terrible mistakes”

because SBF had over $10 billion in assets in FTX equity. Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : But shortly before 3 p.m., Caroline Ellison left the courtroom. She did not make any eye contact with Sam....

2023-08-27
CoinDesk 10 related

Hackers access some customer data at FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi by SIM swapping an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies

We were recently informed that on Saturday, August 19, 2023 … Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Kroll data breach exposes info of FTX, BlockFi, Genesis creditors Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs :...

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TEXXR tracks 2 tech news articles mentioning Molly White, dating back to February 2022. The biggest stories include Q&A with longtime Wikipedia contributor Molly White about her website “Web3 is going just... and Q&A with crypto skeptic Molly White, who runs Web3 Is Going Just Great, on Web3's....

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