Why crypto is a waste of energy, full of crime, and isn’t really decentralized
Edit: Follow up by Cory Doctorow
Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism
I’ve just read one of the most lucid, wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary critiques of cryptocurrency and blockchain I’ve yet to encounter. It comes from David “DSHR” Rosenthal, a distinguished technologist whose past achievements including helping to develop X11 and the core technologies for Nvidia.
