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Protocol Town Hall with Yancey Strickler | When the Means Justify the Ends

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Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter, discusses his two-year journey building Metal Label, a crypto-enabled publishing venture, and reflects on lessons learned navigating tensions between technological determinism and human experience in blockchain technologies. He explores the hard conversations the crypto world often avoids regarding the ethical implications of building with crypto.

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