Keep up with the happenings in the tech world without all the boosterism. Cryptocurrency critic, technology researcher, and software engineer Molly White publishes a weekly explainer of the latest news and developments in the cryptocurrency industry, with summaries of the latest disasters featured on her well-known project Web3 is Going Just Great.

The newsletter also features deep dives into important events in the technology industry, tailored to the layperson, and with added critical context that is too often missing.

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That said, paid subscribers are crucial to allowing me to continue doing this kind of research and writing, and so if you are able to support my work I would be immensely grateful. You will also get access to additional features including commenting.

I understand that not everyone is willing or able to support at the same rate, so I’ve set up an (admittedly janky) system to allow you to pay what you want. The suggested rate is $10/month or $100/year, which comes out to around $2.50 a newsletter just for the weekly recaps — less when you factor in the additional deep dives and special editions. But whatever you want to or can afford to pay is just fine with me, and deeply appreciated.

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Who is Molly?

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Molly White is a researcher, software engineer, and writer who has become a prominent critic of cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based projects. She is best known for her website Web3 is Going Just Great, which documents only some of the many disasters in the cryptocurrency and web3 industries.

White’s dryly funny, almost clinical write-ups of crypto crises make it accessible even to open-minded skeptics like myself.

– Casey Newton, The Verge

Molly White [is] a remarkable young woman who is the sanest critic of the crypto frenzy. By day, she’s a software developer and a dedicated editor of Wikipedia… In her spare time, she’s become the sharpest critic of crypto boosterism on the web.

– John Naughton, The Guardian

Years spent online researching esoteric Internet cultures have made White a rare figure who can maneuver the technically complex, meme-filled world of crypto, translating it into digestible prose.

Gerrit De Vynck, The Washington Post

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Molly White is a researcher and software engineer who has become a prominent critic of the cryptocurrency industry. She maintains Web3 is Going Just Great, a website that chronicles only some of the many disasters happening in the crypto world.