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Re: Web3 is going just great

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Post by pbourke »

paulgb wrote: post #10
ShamelessC wrote: post #4

The decision to call all of this "web 3.0" without actually consulting any developers (that don't own/trade cryptocurrencies) was such a mistake. No - I don't want to write inherently buggy smart contracts for your scam. If I wanted to do that, I would have gone into fintech awhile ago.

I agree that it's a shame, but looking back at “web 2.0”, wasn't it kind of the same? I'm absolutely guilty about being excited about it at the time, but in retrospect, a bunch of rounded corners and incremental inclusion of Ajax didn't really warrant a SemVer major version update either. Edit: actually, maybe the justification of the SemVer bump is that people stopped caring about IE5 support :)

Web 2.0 was a hokey name, but at least it was a new approach to building web apps, built on the techniques and technology that preceded it. Web 3 is ... not that.

Re: Web3 is going just great

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Post by mathnmusic »

danlugo92 wrote: post #12

So much FUD daily here against Bitcoin and Web3. Ask yourself, who is the most affected by these 2 technologies existing? Web3 is young still, I'll grant you that, but it will eat the world in 3 to 5 years. Bitcoin is already mature and it's the most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that? I hear you about the electricity usage, but Bitcoin Lightning will drive down th…

> most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that?

Accepting any currency that's not a stablecoin, gives power (not just purchasing power) over you to those who bought it really cheap without doing as much labour or as much spending as much capital as the late ones. Bitcoin has been more of a security - like a startup's shares - benefiting early investors at the expense of late ones. It's the opposite of "democratic".

Re: Web3 is going just great

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Post by fastball »

ShamelessC wrote: post #4

The decision to call all of this "web 3.0" without actually consulting any developers (that don't own/trade cryptocurrencies) was such a mistake. No - I don't want to write inherently buggy smart contracts for your scam. If I wanted to do that, I would have gone into fintech awhile ago.

Is there some sort of developer cabal that I'm not aware of that makes naming decisions in the software space? Where exactly do you want developers to be "consulted" for this?

Re: Web3 is going just great

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Post by WJW »

kreeben wrote: post #7
Nicksil wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the most deliciousverse so far

But how can the first wave of people get rich off of it at the expense of the second and third wave of people?

You can age the meats to make them more expensive: https://straitsresearch.com/blog/dry-aged-beef-what-makes-it...

You could say it's like st(e)aking your meatcoins.

Re: Web3 is going just great

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Post by jimjimjim »

danlugo92 wrote: post #12

So much FUD daily here against Bitcoin and Web3. Ask yourself, who is the most affected by these 2 technologies existing? Web3 is young still, I'll grant you that, but it will eat the world in 3 to 5 years. Bitcoin is already mature and it's the most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that? I hear you about the electricity usage, but Bitcoin Lightning will drive down th…

electricity usage... the answer is always blah blah blah WILL or GOING TO. when?

Re: Web3 is going just great

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Post by throwvirtever »

yrral wrote: post #11

What are the goals behind these people who spend time making sites and long blogposts about the failings of blockchains/web3, etc? In real life, if I talk to people about crypto they are curious and open to learning about it and most just don't have the time to learn about it. However, when I go online and see a post about NFTs or crypto, there somehow is always tremendous backlash, generally by people not involved i…

When people think something is bad and keep encountering other people saying it is good, they respond. There's no reason why anyone should get "involved in the space" before expressing their opinion.

Re: Web3 is going just great

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Post by kreeben »

WJW wrote: post #24
kreeben wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But how can the first wave of people get rich off of it at the expense of the second and third wave of people?

You can age the meats to make them more expensive: https://straitsresearch.com/blog/dry-aged-beef-what-makes-it... You could say it's like st(e)aking your meatcoins.

But what if I spend months dry aging my meat and then someone comes along and just forks it?

Re: Web3 is going just great

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Post by aeonflux »

danlugo92 wrote: post #12

So much FUD daily here against Bitcoin and Web3. Ask yourself, who is the most affected by these 2 technologies existing? Web3 is young still, I'll grant you that, but it will eat the world in 3 to 5 years. Bitcoin is already mature and it's the most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that? I hear you about the electricity usage, but Bitcoin Lightning will drive down th…

Some 25 years ago I've read some funny Windows vs Linux arguments. "Windows is better because there is tons of software (Windows 95) and Windows is better, because it is very stable mature system, with Unix-based kernel (NT)". Somehow people missed they tried to merge two systems into one for the sake of argument. Bitcoin is consuming tons of power for no reason, development is stale. Fluctuations and speculation prevents it from being useful in anyway. Whole premise of any other network and the whole crypto/blockchain is based on a lie about decentralization. Organizations try to sell that lie to unaware people and shift the center of power into their hands. There is no decentralization anywhere, it's not possible and never will be.
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