The Stephen Deal and the Crypto Web Three Space

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I've been in the space for 10 years. I never see any of those folks discussed by these critics. You can cherry pick the bad things and ignore all the good things. The US has done a very good job being at the center of the last two eras of the internet. Yes, there are bad things and we should come up with smart regulation to reduce or eliminate that. But it's throwing the baby out with a bathwater to start to try to ban new types of computing architecture.

In the second episode of the latest season of Tech Tonic, FT columnist and host Jemima Kelly tries to understand why an influential Silicon Valley investment firm thinks that Web 3 is a good bet. Will blockchain technology really be the foundation of a new internet era? Is Web 3’s promise to decentralise the internet going to pose a challenge to companies such as Facebook and Twitter? The FT’s innovation editor John Thornhill interviews Chris Dixon, head of Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund, and Jemima talks to Molly White, author of the Web3 Is Going Just Great blog.

Presented by Jemima Kelly. Special thanks to John Thornhill. Edwin Lane is senior producer. Produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon. Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner, with original music from Metaphor Music. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.

News clips credits: CBC, NBC, CNN.

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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