People are so offensive to decentralized stuff in comments. Many do really think that the whole thing is about printing money (which is a fun process, lol), but

People are so offensive to decentralized stuff in comments. Many do really think that the whole thing is about printing money (which is a fun process, lol), but I'd like to explain a bit from the other side of perspective. Today's web have an obvious problem - it is run by oligopolies. CF/AWS and Google don't like you (like with Parler case or recent youtube shields on discussing elections on several countries) and you have a problem. Torrent-like static distributions (IPFS) with distributed backends like Ethereum basically broke this oligopoly - even US gov wouldn't be able to shut down truly "web3" service, which is pretty cool, like in the old days when you could setup a server in third-world country. These days are different - there are state backed DDOS gangs in town with an INSANE amount of resources. You are banned from several CDNs, Google and AWS - and you are done if they want you to be shut down. For example, just a week ago Russian "elections" have happened, opposition sites were under complete ddos the whole time and Google+Apple just deleted opposition apps from the appstore after the small talk with gov guys, so there is no trust in big tech - they are not interested in anything but moneymaking. Yes, crypto has a lot of scammers and bastards but those bastards would setup ANY website for you for one another coin. Any torrent, any porn payment processing (hello Christian fanatics and blocked card payments on pornhub), any content distribution (hello Apple in China and blocked Hong Kong flags !). Maybe that market-based approach is better if those "scammers" broke censorship and white-suite Silicon Valley boys prefer to deploy censorship mechanisms because that will make them another investment round without a scandal. Maybe censorship-free global distributed backends for critical apps are more important than a few bucks stolen. Freedom comes with a price.