I remember it blowing my mind then that things didn’t have to be addressable to be findable, they could be “recognized.” Just like you recognize your mom’s face wherever you see it. She’s not defined by occupancy of a home address.
But I thought CCN was scifi beyond my lifetime.
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Final element: “wallets” — Web3 is called the internet of money for a reason. You can’t really navigate it without a wallet. Currently the default setup is the MetaMask extension on Chrome. Using this reminds me of my first view of Mosaic after using Lynx, in ~1994.
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For younger people… Mosaic was the first graphical browser, Lynx was the text-based browser we used before that. Back then http was just one protocol among many like gopher, ftp, telnet (now ssh). Mosaic made it clear http was going to rule the rest. Wallets are that for Web3.
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Wallets hold private keys required to transact on addresses you control. They do 4 important things:
Let you spend
Prove who you are
Let you sign things
Get irretrievably lost or stolen
Kinda like: cash, drivers license, a pen with unique ink, and an easy-to-lose form factor
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That’s basically what Web3 is. 4 layers:
1. Wallets
2. “Sites” you can visit with them
3. Blockchain pointing to everybody and everything forever
4. Content-centric network
Web1/2 were:
1. Accounts and passwords
2. Browsers
3. Address-based network
4. Servers
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Okay, so that long preamble was because I assume most of you had no idea what any of this is. You just see weird people with .eth names apparently trying to sell you jpegs of the Brooklyn Bridge. I knew most of this in principle before, but only learned it in practice last week.
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Okay so what have I actually been up to? Well the grabby headline, which I tweeted yesterday is: I’ve made 30x as much in 1 week on Web3 as I did in my first *year* on Web2.
This will make 1/2 of you yell “Climate-destroying scam!,” 1/3 of you go “🤑” and 1/6 of you go “Hmm…”
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Took me like 2 years to make my first $100 on Google AdSense back in 2007-08 or so... it's taken me less than a week to make over 3k on Web3.
Yes, I'm much better known now than then, and yes there's major frontier froth going on, but still... I get "internet of money" now
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I’m mainly tweeting at the last 1/6, people going hmm.
If you’re in the 1/3 🤑 crowd… there’s more talented hucksters you can look to
If you’re in the 1/2 “it’s a scam” crowd, let’s check back in with each other in 10 years, deal?
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You’ll have to take my word for it that I’m not in it for the money, though of course that’s fun. I got lucky enough with the first wave of crypto a few years ago that if all I saw here was an opportunity to dazzle people with techno-bullshit, I’d be too lazy and uninterested.
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