What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about crypto
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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2 dated positions, 2021 to 2022, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldCryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed: its problems outweigh its promise, and the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting.
No longer holdsBut wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
SaidBut wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsOne of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.