blockchain

11 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2022 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about blockchain, oldest first

Mar 1, 2022 positive
Insight
Evans: Comparing crypto's first 10-year development pace directly to the internet is flawed
“There's a kind of a dumb criticism is to say the fact that we don't have email and the web and so on yet for blockchain tells us we never will, which is just dumb. And there's, oh, well it happened in the first 10 years for the internet and we've been 10 years…”
Benedict Evans Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 35:22 Talking about crypto
Mar 7, 2022 neutral
Insight
Evans: Crypto is subject to legal enforcement at fiat off-ramps
“I mean, clearly the issue there is that you can do whatever you want on the blockchain, but you can't get it, when you get it off, it's the exit points that are subject to the law”
Benedict Evans Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 7:34 Ukraine
Mar 7, 2022 positive
What-if
Evans: A blockchain-based Twitter couldn't be blocked by Russia or executives
“And if you had built Twitter on a blockchain, then Russians couldn't turn it off. And equally, Jack Dorsey or whoever is the CEO now couldn't decide who's going to demonetize it. There wouldn't be somebody who could just press that button.”
Benedict Evans Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 9:02 Ukraine
May 16, 2022 neutral
Insight
Brown: Metaverse confusion mirrors 1990s internet versus web debates
“And that's exactly where we are today with Metaverse and Web Free and blockchain.”
Toni Cowan-Brown May 16, 2022 ▶ 31:48 Metaverse - how to be wrong in the right way
May 16, 2022 neutral
Insight
Evans: Web3 and the Metaverse Are Completely Independent Technologies
“And so I think that, you know, there's sort of a grounding point, you know, if in five to 10 years, we are all using consumer services or business services or, you know, infrastructure or something that's all running on blockchains, which is basically what we …”
Benedict Evans May 16, 2022 ▶ 3:46 Metaverse - how to be wrong in the right way
May 16, 2022 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2032
Evans: Mass consumer blockchain adoption is 5 to 10 years away
“And, you know, if one looks at, you know web three, it's sort of realistic to say, you know, what point are we going to see hundreds of millions of people using a consumer, mass market consumer app that's built on a blockchain? Well, not next year. And sort of…”
Benedict Evans May 16, 2022 ▶ 1:00 Metaverse - how to be wrong in the right way
Nov 18, 2022 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Web3 Does Not Exist and Cannot Support Instagram Today
“And in fact, web three doesn't exist yet. And it would not be possible to build Instagram on a blockchain today.”
Benedict Evans Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 14:12 The FTX face-palm
Oct 15, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brody: Blockchain will modernize co-ops and fan engagement once wallet friction resolves
“Once that and the wallet environment stuff is fixed, you've got this incredibly powerful piece of technology that will allow you to develop fan engagement at massive scale, I think. And it will, and it won't bring new ideas. It won't bring new ideas, but what …”
Leonard Brody Oct 15, 2023 ▶ 37:48 The magic customer
Oct 15, 2023 neutral
Insight
Brody: Blockchain Enables Existing Behaviors More Efficiently, Not New Ones
“Blockchain doesn't make anything new. It just enables old behavior in a more efficient way.”
Leonard Brody Oct 15, 2023 ▶ 45:00 The magic customer
Oct 15, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brody: Blockchain will eventually let sports fans vote on transfer decisions
“I think there will come a day where fans will be heavily engaged. In what goes on on the field. Like, and whatever that looks like, whether it's they're making game day decisions, or whether they're making transfer market decisions, or they're voting on those …”
Leonard Brody Oct 15, 2023 ▶ 43:28 The magic customer
Oct 15, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brody: Consumers will earn brand revenue share and dividends via blockchain
“I think you will see consumption move in that direction, and you'll have a couple brands that you are super passionate about that are smaller, challenger-like brands, and you will be part of their revenue ecosystem, and you'll be able to deliver that through b…”
Leonard Brody Oct 15, 2023 ▶ 39:35 The magic customer
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