DAO Diary

Decrypt co-founder Josh Quittner documents the site’s descent into progressive decentralization... and madness.

CollectionLast updated Oct 24, 2021

Oct 24

Why Do You Think It's Called Discord?

I don’t recall exactly when Ryan Bubinski started berating me about migrating to Discord. Most likely his Discord blitz began during one of our many-times-a-day Zoom meetings around three months ago. Now I live out my days hearing the sonar beep of Discord notifications every few minutes. And then I go to sleep and hear it in my bad dreams. Thanks a lot, Bubinski. Bubinski is our CTO and the person with whom I formulated the idea for Decrypt in early 2018. While we always knew we wanted to ma...

Sep 26

DAO or DIE!

The other night I lay curled up in bed, sobbing. “Now what?” asked my wife. “Nothing!” I lied. “Are the Twitter boys being mean again?” she asked, giving me a hug. “No!” I lied again. In fact, yes: earlier in the day, two O.G. web influencers that I have admired and followed for years had been very mean about crypto. It started when one of them, a Web 2 guy with 580k followers, tweeted that virtually every project on a blockchain is a fraud. “There’s no value in using those technologies,” he sa...

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Why Do You Think It's Called Discord?

DAO or DIE!