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Gavin Wood

Founder and Chief Architect, Parity Technologies · 1 appearance on the record.

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Wood co-founded Ethereum as its first CTO, authored the Ethereum Yellow Paper, and created the Solidity programming language. He coined the term "Web3" and founded Parity Technologies and the Web3 Foundation to develop decentralized protocols including Polkadot.

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1 prediction · 1 assertion · 6 opinions · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Gavin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Wood: Blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum do not inherently protect privacy
“Blockchain, broadly speaking is a very transparent system. It doesn't help users keep hold of their data right of itself, right? Everything on Bitcoin is on them. It's a public ledger. You can see all the transactions that happen. Same with Ethereum.”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 20:19 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For

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Everything Gavin Wood said on Big Technology that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Wood: Social media retention relies on network effect inertia, not quality
“Look, I mean, people are hooked, right? And they're hooked because of the network effects. It's super, there's huge amounts of inertia. It's not that it's not that the product is necessarily is necessarily, like, so amazing that the individuals are using it pu…”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 40:27 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Opinion
Wood: 98 percent of Ethereum dApps are not actually decentralized
“If you, half of the, more than half, 98% of the dApps on Ethereum are not really decentralized.”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 53:24 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Opinion
Wood: Electing politicians cannot fix global societal trust issues
“I don't believe electing a politician is going to do that at all. Like, not a chance. I reckon the world had a pretty decent chance with Obama, and not much changed, right? He got through a, you know, a healthcare bill that was really just US-centric, and that…”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 13:48 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Insight
Wood: The internet enabled unprecedented consolidation of centralized power
“I think there is a natural tendency towards those in power to consolidate that power. And I think the internet provided a really effective means to consolidate power on a scale not seen before.”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 6:02 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Opinion
Wood: Bitcoiners skeptical of Web3 focus too much on NFT hype
“I suspect that the Bitcoin people that are not super keen on the web three people are probably just on the web three movement. Maybe Think of it a little too much in terms of the you know, the NFT hype stuff, rather than the underlying let's say social and tec…”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 24:15 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Disclosure
Wood: Polkadot will underpin a new decentralized social networking protocol
“Yeah, I mean, this is a collaboration. And I'm happy to sort of announce that, you know, Polkadot is, is the, you know, sort of underlying technical framework that you know, this will be implemented upon.”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 28:02 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Opinion
Wood: Centralized platforms dictating online discourse stifles technological innovation
“As long as we have only, you know, three or four places in the Western world at least, where this discourse is happening and therefore three or three, three or four centralized organizations that get to dictate the rules of the discourse and the forum, the mec…”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 42:14 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Insight
Wood: Web3 adoption is an education challenge, not just technological
“It takes a lot of people to understand. It's an education problem as much as it is a technological problem. People have to, like, get their heads around what this is. Like, a lot of Web Two could have been built on the technologies that we had five or 10 years…”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 18:18 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Assertion Supported
Wood: Blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum do not inherently protect privacy
“Blockchain, broadly speaking is a very transparent system. It doesn't help users keep hold of their data right of itself, right? Everything on Bitcoin is on them. It's a public ledger. You can see all the transactions that happen. Same with Ethereum.”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 20:19 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Opinion
Wood: Web3 and Bitcoin communities share fundamental societal improvement goals
“I suspect that modulo a few A few of the sort of let's say less less in it for the movement, more in it for the money people on both sides. I think there is a lot of shared desire to use this technology to really you know, help get society onto a better footin…”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 25:04 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Disclosure
Wood: Project Liberty uses blockchain for permissioning, not data storage
“So at least with Project Liberty, this is, the blockchain isn't going to be used as like a means of, like a data depository. It's really more as, like, a permissioning infrastructure. And then all of the data stuff comes on top of that. Like, all of the data s…”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 42:53 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Prediction Held up
Wood: Polkadot targets beyond thousands of transactions per second by 2026
“We're really looking to push beyond this, like even thousands of transactions per second. That's like a bit of a sort of a goal right now and looking in the next three or four years to be orders of magnitude greater.”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 49:50 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For May 26, 2022 40m
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