0/ "Protocol" is the perhaps the most incorrectly used word in crypto I am very guilty of this too
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1/ If you try to compare web1 protocols (HTTP, SMTP, etc) to web3 protocols, you *should* get confused This is an apples-to-oranges comparison
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2/ Web1 protocols are schemas. That is, they define some form of communication
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3/ Web3 protocols (base layer only; will revisit layer 2 below) are also schemas AND immutable state machines that provision scarce resources
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3a/ Eg Bitcoin Core implements the Bitcoin protocol. Geth and Parity implement the Ethereum protocol
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3b/ But let's zoom out a level. What is the purpose of Bitcoin/Ethereum? To provision scarce resource among a network of users and miners
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4/ This has a few interesting implications
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4a/ All layer 1 tokens *are money* This doesn't unilaterally preclude dapp chains, but it does make the probability of dapp chains much lower
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4b/ All chains are in competition with one another... To be money
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5/ This likely implies that on a long enough time scale, there can only be one public permissionless chain (may be sovereign-sponsored chains)
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Money is not just one thing, though. It's a set of features that have tradeoffs. Multiple products may coexist. I agree there is a relatively strong drive to standardization, but I'm not convinced there can be only one money.
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