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> Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I would give this intro more credence if it hadn't been p
by davidgerard 5y ago
> Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.”
I would give this intro more credence if it hadn't been posted literally a day after he put his MobileCoin shitcoin into Signal.
It's annoying, because the rest of the article is good and apposite - but then he did that.
- phgn 5y agoI think Moxie's critique of web3 concerns the decentralised aspect (DAOs, token economies, smart contracts, NTFs etc). He probably sees MobileCoin (which is built on the Stellar blockchain) just as a solution to fast anonymous payments. It also looks like he's been involved with MobileCoin since 2017 [0], so this is not a quick cash-in on the web3 hype. Signal did not even publicise the payments integration normally. [0] https://www.wired.com/story/mobilecoin-cryptocurrency/ https://www.wired.com/story/mobilecoin-cryptocurrency/