Crypto will be a total clusterfuck for privacy, as the foundational tenets of the blockchain—distributed data across many machines with no central control, inalterable data, public data around pseudonymous (or anonymous) identity, permissionless reading and writing—are utterly antithetical to all contemporary privacy thinking. It’s hard to think of... See more

Ezra: I worry about a world where the stars can leave institutions and make their full market value. There is a lot about institutions that is valuable - fund investigative reporting, etc... I wonder about how this works in a decentralized vision as it empowers the individual and creates more winner takes all dynamics. Are we losing some of the str... See more