The web3 concept that is slowly congealing is an interesting inversion of web 2.0. Back then the idea was "build social websites and figure out the money part later." Today it's "build money stuff and figure out some non-speculative use for it later."https://twitter.com/gponcin/status/1447948308907913218 …
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Meanwhile, we also have to hack away at the situation that makes decentralized trustless architectures so emotionally appealing to a rising generation of young programmers—an entirely centralized web in the hands of the untrustable.
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For people sufficiently technical to appreciate the deep stupidity of the blockchain, the feeling is like repeating the nightmare of the last decade of politics in the western democracies—why is this obviously ridiculous, unworkable, and toxic set of ideas so hard to discredit?
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For my part, I knew we were doomed when Matt Blaze sold the crypto-dot-com domain. (I say that without casting any aspersions on Matt)
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The world I live in becoming objectively stupid right as I enter middle age is like an extra prank the universe is playing on me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik …
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@qrs in this thread for the concept of "every smart contract is its own bug bounty"https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1395784294451265536 …
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Someone reminded me that "web 2.0" was also eaten by its own boil-the-ocean project, the Semantic Web. But at least no one poured billions of dollars into RDF and ontologies and converting the planet to XML. This time we gave the architecture astronauts access to limitless money
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This is the pertinent point for me, I tried to be much more open minded about it 6 months ago but there’s still zero useful things coming out of the ecosystem. If it disappeared other than the hit to some people’s wealth nobody would notice.
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Is this the new Year of the Linux desktop?
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My thoughts EXACTLYhttps://twitter.com/AlanJay1/status/1443020673929076738 …
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Well,
$Nano is a decentralized electronic payments system, and doesn't uses mining to secure itself. With the energy a Bitcoin transaction spends, over 10 million Nano transactions can be processed. The best of it all, payments are confirmed in under a second, at 0 fees. - Show replies
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