Jürgen Geuter (a.k.a "tante") is a stern critic of cryptocurrencies in general and a rather well-known public speaker. Back in 2021 he wrote a long article titled "The Third Web", which provides a comprehensive synopsis of criticism of cryptocurrencies, the third web and many aspects related to those topics.
I consider this article to be a very interesting read and agree with some of his statements. However, I strongly disagree with a lot of his technological criticism which prompted me to write a rather lengthy reply that can be found here.
I spent a lot of time writing that reply and put a lot of effort into researching sources backing up my statements. I was very eager to engage in a real conversation with tante but his only reply was that he "didn't feel compelled to answer".
Even though his initial article and my reply are already more than a year old (which is, of course, an eternity in anything related to technology), I would still like to present this exchange here. Hopefully, it might spur a real debate one day. Thank you very much for reading.
Hi Lukas! Thanks for sharing this link, recently I enjoy reading critics to ideas I treasure. I guess it's sort of refinement practice:) I just read it, it seems fairly superficial as for a "studied computer scientist with a non-trivial amount of experience" and as far as it might have some merit when we consider some web 3.0 projects, in general it's cherry picking. Rotten cherry picking. Also very often during reading I had this "yes, but...Hive" kind of thinking. This place really stands out from other Web 3.0 projects IMO.
Well, it sucks you didn't receive answer, and there was no constructive dialogue born out of your laborious article. Anyway, one more time, thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot for your reply and appreciation. 🙂 I agree with you. It's a completely valid approach to criticise #Web3 in general but if you do so, you should make sure to have valid and sound arguments (which do exist, btw)... Otherwise the criticism is just based on a general feeling, which can't be a base for a real constructive discussion.
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