# Crypto's biggest problem: intellectual dishonesty from the top

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-03-30
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi)
- **Watch at:** 00:44:52 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=2692s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2023-03-30-crypto-s-biggest-problem-intellectual-dishonesty-f-jnwm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 30 Mar 2023, 00:44:52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=2692s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.