Molly White
A past Wikipedia editor, the Massachusetts-based Molly White has turned her research skills into what might be the biggest crypto boogeyman blog on the internet. Her site and Twitter profile Web3 is Going Just Great has recorded near-daily examples of scams, rug pulls, failures, arrests, and more going on in the crypto space.
In a recent Washington Post profile, 28-year-old White described how she became interested in the space after first trying to create an entry on Wikipedia describing Web3, and found it incredibly difficult because nobody seemed to share the same definition. She’s since gone on to document the ever-expanding list of crypto scams, failures, mismanagement, and on and on. She was recently one of 26 “technology experts” to sign a letter to Congress to urge crypto industry regulations. She has lectured at Stanford University and provided advice to journalists.
Critics of White say she is too selective and that she mischaracterizes the entire Web3 scene through a selective and bad faith lens. In a Q&A with Slate, White said that much of the pushback she’s received has been at her longer form blog posts about her views on crypto in general. She said that most people are not outright hostile with her site since, more often than not, crypto investors read about failed projects that they’re not involved with, and feel secure that it’s not them feeling the burn.
Update 06/10/22 1:45 p.m.: This post was amended to correct the location where white is based.
