Hi, author here, given my provenance notes, I believe the brand/vision of the term web3 originates from web3.js and those people around it. But the term is qui

Hi, author here, given my provenance notes, I believe the brand/vision of the term web3 originates from web3.js and those people around it. But the term is quite general, as really it's anyone's authority to bump the web's major version number. But I'm conflating web3 with crypto as I've been witnessing "web3"'s rise through my own eyes and it has always been conflated with crypto IMO. I accept if others have a different perspective. I think nowadays there are so may web3 efforts that I've lost track. > IPFS et al seem to be working fine right now without shoe-horning in blockchain Btw. I think the original creator of IPFS Juan Benet would disagree with you here. I know for a fact that the original IPFS and Filecoin whitepapers (the old Filecon paper! [1]) were kind of written in parallel (around 2015 or earlier), so I'd infer that it always had been their vision to also create a ledger or crypto component. - 1: https://filecoin.io/filecoin-jul-2014.pdf https://filecoin.io/filecoin-jul-2014.pdf