Kinda ironic that Web3 thing presents as 100% transactional and money driven, and you have to buy in with cash, but it’s nobody’s job to actually sell it to you. Yes, there are self-appointed evangelists and people shilling coins, but this isn’t *actually* a product.
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It’s a cousin of Paul Ford’s “why wasn’t I consulted?” (wwic) phenomenon.
“Why wasn’t I marketed to?” (wwmt)
Why didn’t somebody carefully analyze your tastes and values and figure out a positioning and value proposition to appeal to you?
Why indeed.
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I suspect this is how people miss booms, waiting to be invited. Same thing happened with PCs, Web1, Web2.
This is a crash-only party. Nobody is invited. Everybody is a party crasher. Starting with Satoshi crashing central banker party. Crash in or sit it out. wwmt is silly.
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As with Web1 and Web2, most creators get nothing, the rest are power-law distributed.
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I think Web3 is waiting for its cgi moment. Web1 went from memoryless to stateful over ~5 years with cookies+cgi. Web3 is coming from the other extreme, from only immutable memory towards stateful.
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@ricmac’s Web History Project is the best thing like this that I am aware of webdevelopmenthistory.com/1993-cgi-scrip
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It’s not just gas fees. The whole persistence model is like eeprom. Write operations are like flashing in embedded programming. Need a throwaway state on top that gives up some trustless verifiability for convenience for the less critical stuff.
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Like if you wanted to use NFTs as tokens in a decentralized wallet-to-wallet game, where do hold game state? In a Web2 style db layer? That seems wrong. But it also seems silly to store game state on chain.
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you store it off chain with each user signing, and if match, execute on chain. That's how opensea works under the hood: docs.opensea.io/reference/term
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Hmm. When you say “how OpenSea works” you mean the listing and bidding process? Foundation and mirror seem to do it all onchain, but I couldn’t quite tell how opensea worked. Looked to me that minting was done only after a bid was actually accepted.
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