THE VIDEO SHELF · cryptocurrency and nft critique
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Dan Olson's roughly two-hour video essay critiques NFTs, cryptocurrency, and Web3, covering their technical, economic, and ideological flaws. It is heavily sourced and ends with the advice to ask whether a project needs crypto to work.
Why HN readers recommended it
It is the go-to long-form critique of crypto that HN commenters recommend whenever skeptics ask for a thorough, well-researched takedown.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Folding Ideas
- Topic
- cryptocurrency and nft critique
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 12
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Folding Ideas' new (2 hour podcast-ish) video "The Problem With NFTs" is a really good critique of cryptocurrency: [VIDEO] Covers pretty much every thought I've ever had regarding centralization, privacy issues, proof of work and proof of stake both rewarding the rich, economic incentives in …
code_biologist on Hacker News · 2022-01
In Crypto: When Will the Madness Stop?On this note. This recent video is probably the most detailed and incisive critique of cryptocurrency and NFTs that I've seen: [VIDEO] It not only covers the technical limitations, but also the ideological flaws.
AlexandrB on Hacker News · 2022-01
In Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listenThey pretty much nailed it in the last paragraph... > Writing in the New York Times Adrian Chen noted as far back as 2013 that Bitcoin is built on a weird mix of speculative greed bolstered by a utopian cyberlibertarian ideology and likened it to …
crispyambulance on Hacker News · 2022-02
In Cryptocurrencies – An Assessment by Reserve Bank of India
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