Nakamoto.com, a new initiative founded by crypto investor and entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan, launched quietly last Friday evening. There was no initial press coverage, just a series of tweets to announce the purpose of the new website and link to some of the initial posts.
A battle quickly erupted on Crypto Twitter about the use of the Satoshi name for a website that includes authors that are not approved by the high priests of the bitcoin fundamentalist sect.
Regardless, Balaji’s initial post was a rallying cry for the future of crypto, and Bitcoin’s rightful place as the flag of a new wave of technology.
I think this is a much needed resource to help heal some of the senseless fighting in crypto today. Many outsiders see a lot of chaos in crypto, insane infighting that appears meaningless to newcomers but quickly demands that someone take a side. Pro BTC or anti-BTC (just saying “Pro-Bitcoin leads many to ask “WHAT Bitcoin do you mean!!!). Pro this alt coin or that one.
Healthy debates are wonderful and happen every day in crypto. But unhealthy debates, spectacularly dramatic, drown out the good conversations. Nakamoto appears to be an effort to bring together the more reasonable people in crypto to celebrate what’s good about the technology.
“That’s why we’re launching Nakamoto. We want to create a venue for quality technical, philosophical, and cultural writing that is of general interest to the crypto community as a whole, for beginner and expert alike.”
I’m a contributing writer to the site. My first post is titled It Will Take Years for Smart People to Understand Cryptocurrencies. You can read it here.
Anyone can write for the site. There is more information about contributing here.
