What we do
Project Glitch is a team of three journalists determined to help improve public discourse around blockchain networks and related technologies. Our work is aimed at raising urgent technological questions and breaking down thorny technical concepts and ideas we believe deserve more prominence in the mainstream’s consciousness.
We publish a newsletter (you can subscribe below) and aim to complement our written journalism with in-person events that are journalistically curated. Our first event, The DC Privacy Summit, which took place on October 24, featured an array of leading technologists and policymakers, from Ethereum developer Ameen Soleimani to the White House’s Carole House. It showcased how advanced cryptographic systems based on zero-knowledge proofs are evolving in real time. And it explained how it’s possible to simultaneously achieve privacy and compliance using these novel tools. You can watch videos of the summit’s sessions here.
Ethics Statement
We are journalists. We seek to document events, inventions, and their impacts using facts and verifiable evidence. These are the bricks we use to build everything we create. We are independent; we are only “pro” or “anti” anything insofar as the evidence for or against them points in that direction. We talk to lots of people, and people are complicated. Everyone has their own motivations. It is our job to understand those motivations as best we can, and weigh them when evaluating every source’s statements. At the end of the day, human motivations aren’t what is most important. The facts are.
What that means as a business is that we are, in a sense, boring. At the moment, we are not backed by venture capital (if and when we do raise funds, we will explain that here). Our staff does not invest in cryptocurrency (we hold only enough to participate in new decentralized networks and applications). We intend for our revenue to come chiefly from two sources: newsletter subscriptions and sponsorship revenue. The business model may evolve in the future but for now, that’s it.
No one who sponsors Project Glitch gains influence over the editorial product. We retain the final say, always. If we put on an event, for example, we will choose who and what to feature on stage irrespective of any sponsorship deals. It’s about as old-school and vanilla of a journalism business model as there is. And we stand by it.
The central thesis of Project Glitch is that the cryptocurrency and decentralized technology community needs an independent voice now more than ever. There is so much at stake—and so very much money and influence being thrown around. It is endlessly tempting for a media organization to follow the herds dominating the day’s crypto conversation in search of capturing attention and audience.
We believe that there is only one way to serve the community of rigorous technologists, policymakers, visionaries, and business people who want to use decentralized technologies to build systems that can improve people’s lives. And that’s by delivering unvarnished, evidence-based journalism.
