Molly White

Molly White is a researcher, writer, software engineer, and prominent critic of the cryptocurrency industry. She writes the Citation Needed newsletter, which covers the cryptocurrency industry and the tech industry more broadly. She also founded and maintains the popular website Web3 is Going Just Great, which highlights examples of how cryptocurrency and web3 projects are failing to live up to their promises. Molly has written essays outlining issues with crypto-utopianism and techno-solutionism, and her expertise has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, and NPR. She is "the cryptocurrency world’s biggest critic" according to The Washington Post, and The Guardian described her as "the sharpest critic of crypto on the web". She was named in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list and in FastCompany's Most Creative People. White is also a strong advocate for free knowledge, online communities, and a better web, and has spent over a decade as a passionate contributor to Wikipedia. She is an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.