Crypto Critics’ Club Hong Kong

Sources for Further Information Many technologists have long been critical of crypto, and they are increasingly vocal about it. Here are some good sources. (Note: Crypto Twitter is deliberately left out, as these issues are better grasped in book form or long blog posts rather than 280 characters.) Books Gerard, David. Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum and Smart Contracts. 1st ed., 2017. A critical and trenchant examination of BTC and ETH, including their ideological underpinnings....

Questions Can crypto live up to its hype? This group aims to examine the claims and promises of crypto critically and carefully. Is blockchain a radical new innovation for a new, better, faster, more efficient financial system? Or is it rather a neat trick to solve a problem nobody really has, enabling cryptocurrencies that are slow and incredibly wasteful? Is highly complicated smart new tech, or is it rediscovering basic financial fallacies and pitfalls from centuries past through the highly effective “learning by doing” method?...