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Popcorn Time felt more web3 than all crypto combined.

No computer programs are perfect, there will be bugs and exploits. The question then comes to whether we want to deal with unpredictable human "bug" or consistent computer bug. For…

An opportunity to do things differently. The Internet today have flaws and we had exhausted all the possible way to build a better one on existing technology. Blockchain present us…

Exactly, I don't see blockchain as a solution to cure world hunger or help us "decentralised" everything but I won't dismissed it as a possible route to a new future. I have high h…

"Who is hosting the blockchain?" Miners/Stakers who is incentivize to validate the network and maintain the collective consensus. All your points are valid and universally known bu…

In an ideal world, things will be build to facilitate the trust, we don't have to trust any programmer at all. The trust in put on the code itself which not one but all of us agree…

No, that's why many people is working on it now. If you compare old smart contract with new ones, you will see that things are slowly getting fixed. For e.g., you could literally s…

"you can ask the bank to give you the money back" "you can take them to court" Which like the article argues, is not something that can be solved by any ledger, distributed or not.…

"I suspect that legacy industry and regulators have smothered two generations of technological improvement, largely (I suspect) by building a (mostly) closed and permissioned finan…

The argument made was that it's not about the technology itself but the transaction rules. If money are stolen from banks in a specific way (withdrawn into prepaid cards), banks wi…

Stay away from social media for a while helps too.

Not everyone needs a platform to be honest. Most people lives their lives without posting anything online, just jumping from platform to platform searching for something to consume…

Has anyone optimized for the feelings of web developers?

It would be interesting to see the story from the other side, like how effective are these promotional notifications.

GitHub testing social media feature

The whole web3 hype is that it promises a utopia version of the Internet hence no matter where you choose to attack it, it almost always seems vague. But remember this, Internet it…

Remember this: https://media.wired.com/photos/593230395c4fbd732b5511e3/mast... > History is repeating itself, old thinking + new technology is never going to create innovation, it'…