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Awesome critique of crypto / web3
- Stephen Diehl series - https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog.html
- The Case Against Crypto - December 31, 2021
- Blockchainism - December 11, 2021
- Web3 is Bullshit - December 4, 2021
- The Internet's Casino Boats - December 1, 2021
- The Token Disconnect - November 27, 2021
- The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger - November 24, 2021
- Ice-Nine for Markets - November 23, 2021
- The Tinkerbell Griftopia - November 19, 2021
- Decentralized Woo Hoo - November 16, 2021
- The Intellectual Incoherence of Cryptoassets - November 7, 2021
- On Unintentional Scams - July 23, 2021
- How to Destroy Bitcoin - July 13, 2021
- The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency - July 7, 2021
- The Oncoming Ransomware Storm - May 11, 2021
- Et tu, Signal? - April 7, 2021
- The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban - March 30, 2021
- Bitcoin: The Postmodern Ponzi - February 27, 2021
- The Crypto Chernobyl - February 10, 2021
- Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage - February 3, 2021
- 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 - 2021-05-20
- Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility by Nassim Taleb - 27 Jun 2021 - highly critical paper by author Black Swan etc.
- https://watershed.co.uk/studio/news/2021/12/03/case-against-crypto
- The Third Web - 2021-12-17 - long critical essay including detailed history by Tante
- https://rufuspollock.com/2016/07/02/reflections-on-the-blockchain/ - 2016-07-02 - by Rufus Pollock (mainly a critique of early DAOs and techno-solutionism)
Ponzi Aspect
- Why bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme - Financial Times
- https://seattletimes.com/opinion/bitcoin-is-basically-a-ponzi-scheme/
- https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
Bitcoin and Energy Consumption
- https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
- https://newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-bitcoin-is-bad-for-the-environment
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