How the blockchain will break up Big Tech

Crypto will be a total clusterfuck for privacy, as the foundational tenets of the blockchain—distributed data across many machines with no central control, inalterable data, public data around pseudonymous (or anonymous) identity, permissionless reading and writing—are utterly antithetical to all contemporary privacy thinking. It’s hard to think of... See more

While some innovations naturally fit on the blockchain, others, though appealing, don't align with the practical needs and preferences of most users.

Although at one point, we all believed everything needed to be onchain.

Reality is that most people don't care about that. Values like trustlessness, transparency, censorship resistance, and self cust... See more

This interpretation stands in contrast to the claims that web3 advocates make. They claim that web2 is a centralized mess dominated by technology megacorporations and web3 is now about content ownership. In order to achieve these goals, they must create an entirely new operating model for the web, one built on the blockchain. Blockchain is in effec... See more