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Isn't Stephen Diehl a grifter who sells private blockchain tech and hates on everyone who could threaten his business?

I wouldn't call such a source an awesome critique.

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I've seen this claim snowball over time as blockchain people desperately try to ad hominemate him.

I do think he did once (quite a few years ago) consult for a blockchain company. That's about the only factual basis I've discerned for it.

(Disclaimer/source: I met Stephen once or twice a while back, via the Haskell community.)

Isn't this the definition of an ad hominem?

Do his arguments have merit or not?

Interesting, I thought some of his articles were well put together. Do you have a source for that gossip? Would love get both sides of the story.

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/adjoint-distri...

article from 2018?

what's your statute of limitations for sources?

His thesis is pretty much that crypto is just layer and layer of scams. So what benefit is he going to get by poisoning the word "blockchain"?

If public blockchains are considered harmful, people might buy tech for private ones.

Why on earth would you want a private blockchain? Just use Cassandra and be done with it.

Don't know, lol

Maybe they don’t trust themselves?

Maybe crypto companies don't trust their employees, because there's a strong correlation between employees who have no qualms about working for a company that perpetrates scammy cryptocurrency get-rick-quick pyramid schemes, and employees who have no qualms about stealing from their employer either.

No.

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