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>So why does all talk of Web3 always shoehorn in blockchain and smart contracts? Who cares about that besides crypto buyers, who are mostly conducting their bus
by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>So why does all talk of Web3 always shoehorn in blockchain and smart contracts? Who cares about that besides crypto buyers, who are mostly conducting their business via clearweb exchanges anyway?
Nobody - those are exactly the people who push "Web3" (which has little to do with the web) as they're in desperate need of a Greater Fool in order to realise their "investment" in cryptocurrency-related assets.
- edoceo 5y agoRight, one can do distributed/federated apps w/o blockchain (see email). It's too practical to be exciting
- WhisperingShiba 5y agoCrypto is ultimately going to prove to be a more efficient means of value exchange, and easier for developers to utilize that the current financial system. That alone is enough to make me feel sure of my investments. However, there are many beautiful things that will come out of Web3.0 as well. End to end open source VPNs, containerized and running on a decentralized cloud is already a reality. You an use it today for free on Android and IOS (Velocity VPN - Running Sentinel back end.) Its open source and anonymous end to end. No one is keeping logs. Don't look at the shit coins and the bubble and think the dream of Web3.0 is not real.
- saladuh 5y ago> open source Are you saying sentinel is open source, or that Velocity is open source? Because I can't find any velocity repositories on the web, nor is the app on f-droid.
- b3nji 5y agohttps://github.com/sentinel-official https://github.com/sentinel-official
- ac29 5y ago> You an use it today for free on Android and IOS (Velocity VPN That's a little misleading, the app says it is "free and unlimited while in its testnet phase". Presumably it will require some cryptocoin eventually.
- WhisperingShiba 5y agoInstead of today, I should have said 'for now'