When we approached Zawinski for comment, he said he was “actually far more depressed at the fact that the Long Now Foundation and Internet Archive have bought into this scam [cryptocurrencies – ed.] than that Mozilla has. Because while at this point Mozilla is a largely rudderless privacy-focused advocacy organization instead of a software project, the Long Now Foundation is putatively all about long-term thinking.”
He added that there was “literally nothing in the modern tech ecosystem more short-sighted than the gambling instrument and ecological disaster that we know as cryptocurrencies.”
