Reporter at Drop Site News, co-host at Breaking Points/Counter Points

happy you’re here, please tear this industry apart. we need it and it will make us stronger.

The problem I have tearing crypto apart is that I don’t really understand it technically at all detailed level. My objections are all philosophical. It uses up a ton of energy so people can speculate and do arbitrage. How is that worth it? I’ve used it to pay journalists in Afghanistan and appreciate that but I’d rather all this energy be spent ending sanctions. What am I missing?

You say you’d rather people work on ending sanctions than building blockchains. What do you believe they should be doing exactly and which sanctions?

A lot of times they are building permissionless tools because they didn’t have any power with governments. Power within government is a brand new thing in 2025