Cory Doctorow on Blockchain, Crypto & Web3

In this episode of our Making Sense of #Crypto and #Web3 series, Rufus Pollock is joined by activist, journalist and author Cory Doctorow. Cory outlines the problems he sees within the web3 space; economic, technological, and ethical.

0:00 – Introduction to Cory’s position on web3
06:44 – Crypto tokens as currency
11:48 – State spending, the monetary supply, and resources
20:43 – The transactional mindset of the web3 space
27:12 – Hyper-financialization
40:37 – Technology, security, and revocability
53:15 – Trust and the irreducible need for an oracle
1:06:00 – Inequality, blockchain, and the state

You can learn more about Cory and his work here:
https://pluralistic.net/
https://doctorow.medium.com/

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