- Bad idea on blockchain wouldn’t turn into a good idea.
- Incentivizing content creation is not a good idea especially for wikipedia.
- Truth is not an option voted by majority.
- People do it for love, not for money.
- Providing more payment methods actually lower the revenue of wikipedia. (because people are distracted)
- Removing trusted 3rd party? We are the trusted 3rd party.
- Immutability has a lot of downsides, and few upsides.
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, on 2020 CGLondon.