[janimo]

Much more thoughtful than yesterday's blog post addressing Moxie's concerns.

I wonder if the quality of conversations around this subject were improved if similarly to conflicts of interest declared by scientific paper authors, each public critic or supporter of web3 would disclose whether they are currently financially invested in 'crypto'. For outsiders it's harder to tell apart hacker/geek types from speculators and lurkers (not that there couldn't be an overlap). The fact that this article mentions there exist much fewer Ethereum nodes than "Ethereum nerds" may suggest that the non-technical group controls the public discourse and expectations.

[Ar-Curunir]

It depends on who you’re reading: people building actual products and protocols will usually provide measured responses and be able to engage properly with good-faith criticism. See also Vitalik’s Reddit post responding to Moxie’s article.

On the other hand, if you encounter primarily spammers, speculators, and scammers, you’ll just get garbage (similar to anti-blockchain grifters that repeat the same “blockchain is a ponzi pyramid earth-burning scam” garbage repeatedly)

[magicjosh]

An inverse relationship here. The builders are busy building stuff and don't spend much time on communications. Whereas speculators, all they have is communications, and there are many more speculators than builders, so the incentives look like 99% crap, 1% useful communications.

Props to builders like the OP, Moxie, and Vitalik for building and sharing. And to podcasts like Bankless for creating venues for communication from builders. I'd love to find a "Builders" cryptocurrency podcast.

[Ar-Curunir]

Look at the ZeroKnowledge podcast; it’s fantastic and has no scammy bullshit

[magicjosh]

https://zeroknowledge.fm/

This is excellent, listening to the Flashbots interview now: https://zeroknowledge.fm/168-2/ (urls dont have podcast title)

[magicjosh]

Thank you!