Crypto's biggest problem: intellectual dishonesty from the top
Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi)
“There’s an incredible amount of intellectual dishonesty — incredible, to a point… it starts at the top and it trickles down to the community… when people see comments like ‘Bitcoin solves world hunger’… that dishonesty is giving us as an industry a bad name and hurting people… The way you unlock community is through radical openness, because the more barriers you remove for trust, the higher network effects you get.” — 00:44:52
Context: Asked for negative and positive lessons for founders; the openness/network-effects line is at 00:48:28. He names Vitalik Buterin and Anatoly Yakovenko as intellectually honest counterexamples.