Chris Dixon, the patron saint of crypto, is still preaching the gospel.

In this essay, Every lead writer Evan Armstrong deconstructs Dixon’s new book, Read Write Own, in which the venture capitalist proffers his still-faithful argument for how crypto and blockchain technology can change the internet—and the world.

Evan isn’t convinced. “I finished it believing that blockchains can solve niche use cases that rely on the technology’s properties,” he writes. “I was equally convinced that crypto’s promise has been greatly inflated.” While Dixon diagnoses many of the internet’s problems, crypto won’t be the thing that saves it.

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