Molly White

Molly White is a researcher, software engineer, writer, newsletter publisher, and prominent critic of cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based projects. She is best known for her website Web3 is Going Just Great, which documents only some of the many disasters in the cryptocurrency and web3 industries, and for her Follow the Crypto election spending tracker.

White publishes "Citation Needed," a newsletter that features regular explainers of developments in the cryptocurrency industry, with summaries of the latest disasters featured on Web3 is Going Just Great. The newsletter also features deep dives into important events in the technology industry, with added critical context that is too often missing.

She has written essays outlining issues with the 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."

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 at Harvard University.