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@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ Awesome critique of crypto/web3, etc. Contributions are welcome.
- [Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage](https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/gamestop.html) - February 3, 2021
* [Today on Sick Sad World: How The Cryptobros Have Fallen](https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/01/today-on-sick-sad-world-how-the-cryptobros-have-fallen/) - 2022-01-04 by Jamie Zawinski (legendary coder, co-founder of Mozilla etc.)
* https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html - 2022-01-07 Moxie Marlinspike, co-founder of Signal etc.
* [Technobabble, Libertarian Derp and Bitcoin by Paul Krugman in NY Times](https://nytimes.com/2021/05/20/opinion/cryptocurrency-bitcoin.html) - 2021-05-20
* [Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility by Nassim Taleb - 27 Jun 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14204) - highly critical paper by author Black Swan etc.
* https://watershed.co.uk/studio/news/2021/12/03/case-against-crypto
* [The European Money and Finance Forum - The encrypted threat: Bitcoin’s social cost and regulatory responses](https://web.archive.org/web/20220107084533/https://www.suerf.org/docx/f_88b3febc5798a734026c82c1012408f5_38771_suerf.pdf) - Jan 2022. A comprehensive study by SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum that details the net negative effects of bitcoin to society.
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* Molly White series - https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/
* [Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are](https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchains-are-not-what-they-say/)
### Economists ###
* Paul Krugman [Technobabble, Libertarian Derp and Bitcoin](https://nytimes.com/2021/05/20/opinion/cryptocurrency-bitcoin.html) - 2021-05-20
* Joseph Stiglitz [Nobel Prize Economist Joseph Stiglitz Calls Regulators to Ban Cryptocurrencies](https://deep-resonance.org/2021/10/28/nobel-prize-economist-joseph-stiglitz-calls-regulators-to-ban-cryptocurrencies/) - 2021-10-28
* Yanis Varoufakis [What is money, really? And why Bitcoin is not the answer (even if blockchain is brilliant & potentially helpful in democratising money)](https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2021/08/02/what-is-money/) - 2021-08-02
* Stephanie Kelton [Cryptocurrency and Fiat Money](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84wTEf9Acik) - 2017-12-23
* Tyler Cowan [What the Crypto Crowd Doesn't Understand About Economics](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-21/what-the-crypto-crowd-doesn-t-understand-about-economics) - 2021-06-20
### Ponzi aspect
* [Financial Times: Why bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme](https://web.archive.org/web/20220113183816/https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoReality/comments/rm78e3/financial_times_why_bitcoin_is_worse_than_a/) - 2021-12-22. A Ponzi scheme is a zero-sum enterprise. But bitcoin is a negative-sum phenomenon that you can’t even pursue a claim against, argues Robert McCauley. [Original](https://ft.com/content/83a14261-598d-4601-87fc-5dde528b33d0)