Marlinspike’s a barely reformed techbro but he can be very funny
To get a feeling for the web3 world, I made a dApp called Autonomous Art that lets anyone mint a token for an NFT by making a visual contribution to it. The cost of making a visual contribution increases over time, and the funds a contributor pays to mint are distributed to all previous artists (visualizing this financial structure would resemble something similar to a pyramid shape). At the time of this writing, over $38k USD has gone into creating this collective art piece.
He used to be a crust punk dirtbag, but yeah he’s been pulled into techbro world to some degree recently. That’s the career trajectory for cryptographers tbh. You can only bash your head against inconceivably complex cryptography problems and attacks for so many years before it’s time to sell out and make some ez money resting on your laurels. He’s earned it for sure.
