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The Best Arguments Against Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
More Blockchain Garbology
Since I published “Blockchain Is Garbage,” I’ve had many requests for collections of the best critical arguments about Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and more recent developments like NFTs, the metaverse, web3, and so on. This is my attempt to provide a curated, annotated selection of the best critical work on these topics. Future sections will cover topics like the metaverse, economics, finance, the political philosophy associated with crypto, and others; I intend to update this list regularly. Please contact me on Twitter with suggestions.
Sections:
- Technologists Who Criticize Crypto & Blockchain Technology
- Criticisms of Blockchain‘s’ Impact on the Environment
- Criticisms of Web3, the Metaverse, & NFTs
- Wide-Ranging Critical Videos
1. TECHNOLOGISTS WHO CRITICIZE CRYPTO & BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
Experienced computer scientists & engineers explain why blockchain is bad technology
Nicholas Weaver is a former Computer Science lecturer at UC-Berkeley, now a consultant, who has been one of crypto’s most trenchant critics since the beginning. He has among other…
