Jack Dorsey, Marc Andreessen and the Makings of a Crypto Holy War

By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideological hold on its early entrepreneurs and workers. It had all the euphoria of a gold rush and all the self esteem of high tech meritocracy.

The differences in the two blockchains mirror an ideological rift in the crypto world: Crypto purists (like Buterin) accuse Solana of being too centralized, too enmeshed with venture capitalists, too willing to compromise in pursuit of efficiency. 

Remember when Steve Jobs said Bill Gates “shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas?” Then came Web 2.0 and a new clash of titans who lorded over companies of unprecedented size and power. This was when Mark Zuckerberg went to war against Tim Cook, with Facebook at one point funding a false Cook presidential campaign to undermine Apple’s supposed... See more