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Channels with Peter Kafka

Engineer Molly White explains why Web3 isn’t going great

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Software engineer Molly White has emerged as one of Web3’s most high-profile skeptics. Her website “Web3 is going just great” chronicles scams, bugs, “rug pulls” and thefts plaguing the world of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), and other blockchain technologies. She and Recode’s Peter Kafka discuss her take on all things Web3, why she took on this project in her free time, and how the feedback she’s received compares to her previous work on GamerGate and the Boogaloo movement. Featuring: Molly White (@molly0xfff), software engineer and creator of Web3 is going just great Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

1:08.2

That is me, and today we've got a timely interview about Web3 and the

1:12.3

crypto crash and what might happen next. Talking to Molly White. She's an engineer who's become one of the leading Web3 skeptics. She runs a site called Web3 is going just great. And she's great. But first, a word for me about me. I've told you before I'm writing a column

1:28.6

for box.com now every week. It covers a lot of the stuff we talk about on this podcast, media

1:33.0

and tech. What happens as those things intersect? And now, if you want, you can get that

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column delivered to your mailbox every Wednesday for free. The first one is out today. It's

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about Hollywood, celebrating Netflix's fall,

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whether Netflix's problem is a Netflix problem or a streaming problem, which would be bad

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news for Hollywood. You can sign up for it by going to box.com slash newsletters. If you don't

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like typing URLs, we got you covered, you can go to my Twitter. There's a link. Click on it.

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You're done. It's easy. I'm already getting good

2:00.9

feedback about this. Maybe some future guests. So thank you. Keep it coming. And now on to Molly

2:06.4

White. One note here is that I try to keep jargon and acronyms out of my interviews, but that's

2:11.0

particularly difficult when you talk about crypto. So when you hear me mention Dow's, you should

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