Mirrored from https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1534097850640093184 https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1534097850640093184: Last week the global tech communit

Mirrored from https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1534097850640093184 https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1534097850640093184: Last week the global tech community engaged the democratic process to start a discussion with American lawmakers about responsible innovation and financial regulation concerning crypto-assets. The letter was covered widely by the global press, read by over 25,000 people and signed by over 1,400 new signatories. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/03/crypto-skeptics-growing/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/03/crypto-sk... Signatories now include folks such James Gosling, Mat Velosso, Martin Fowler, Simon Willison, David SH Rosenthal, Dave Andersen, 25 computer science professors and engineers from Amazon, ACM, Adobe, AMD, Apple, Box, Block, CMU, Cornell, Disney, Dropbox, eBay, Google, GitHub, IEEE, IBM, Microsoft, MIT, Meta, Mozilla, Pixar, Shopify, Netflix, Oracle, Stanford, Shopify, Salesforce, Thoughtworks, VMWare. Signatories are not only programming language creators, professors, and titans of industry but normal working software engineers who feel strongly about this issue and have the courage to speak up to help inform policy. https://www.ft.com/content/f4b2fa1a-4057-4b10-9f3b-efa57e6bcbac https://www.ft.com/content/f4b2fa1a-4057-4b10-9f3b-efa57e6bc... The thesis is very simple: the status quo needs to change. The most vulnerable in our communities are getting hurt because of regulatory inaction. And moving forward we need to proceed from a place of informed skepticism rather than reckless positivity. https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmyzk/the-pivot-to-web3-is-going-to-get-people-hurt https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmyzk/the-pivot-to-web3-is-... This is all at the same time that the crypto lobby is spending more money than the entire defense sector put together to influence senators and push their corporate interests on the public. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-02/crypto-industry-eclipses-defense-big-pharma-in-political-giving https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-02/crypto-in... A grassroots coalition of scientists, think tanks, finreg experts, and legal scholars are organizing to assist the legislative process and ensure that fintech innovation serves financial inclusion and that investors, markets, and consumers are protected. https://twitter.com/RealBankReform/status/1533820486022569984 https://twitter.com/RealBankReform/status/153382048602256998... The window to sign closes this Friday, and the letter is sent to Congress thereafter. Join the 1500+ other fellow programmers, scientists and engineers in the technology community in making your voice heard on this important issue. Read the letter at https://concerned.tech https://concerned.tech