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I'm a professional blockchain architect and before I worked in Fintech for 20 years. Most of my views are definitely impacted by my own experiences.



Then does the bias you assume others to have not apply equally to you? It doesn’t matter what arguments are made here, if you’re all-in on blockchain you’re not going to listen to any of them. Also, how do you account for such scepticism from the community? Do you think everyone just irrationally hates new technology? Given where we are that seems unlikely.


I do tend to change my opinions when presented with new evidence and took my time to go "all in"into blockchain professionally because I thought it was not going to last and in any case it was mostly a solution to a problem I was being paid to solve with other technology... Bitcoin was my enemy!

I take HN user's reaction to Web3 to be within expectations for any revolutionary technology. If von Neuman criticised FORTRAN for being too high-level and not needed for serious computer science and IBM failed at capturing the web, Warren Buffet didn't invest in Microsoft, Apple or Google, then this to me suggests that the bigger the paradigm shift, the more those who created or benefit from the status quo will fight it. It's my belief that the web as we know it was developed without security or privacy in consideration and that this is the ultimate reason why we have the current "surveillance economy" and the cyber risks affecting people, businesses and nation states and that the Web3 will offer a cryptography-first alternative within the next two years.

We could go through my comment history and you'll see that for the most part I try to share my knowledge and experience in a positive way and never assume others are irrational, but a few interactions were generally negative. I do get a gut reaction to comments that insinuate my line of work benefits criminals, for instance, and lashed out once or twice at terrible articles or blogs that were shared here and were taken as authoritative when in fact they were complete nonsense for anyone _working_ in the space. I regret those but won't delete them. This is my work and I sustain a family with it so yes I am biased but not uninformed or incapable of learning new facts.

More broadly, I'm familiar with how trends work and some aspects of the blockchain community can be off putting and the technology itself is often misrepresented as simply a "distributed ledger" but I'm also confident that anyone who cares enough to try and join a developer focused meetup (Ethereum!) or event will see the side that I try my best to represent.




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