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> Web3 is best understood as a game, or a game of games. I don’t intend that as a dig: it’s a really good game! Vast and open-ended, deeply social, with lots of
by SkeuomorphicBee 5y ago
> Web3 is best understood as a game, or a game of games. I don’t intend that as a dig: it’s a really good game! Vast and open-ended, deeply social, with lots of scores to tally … AND you can win real money?? I mean, that’s terrific.
That is the best explanation of Web3, it is like one of those Reddit April's folks events, just a social game.
- textbookrental 5y agoI think it is best understood as a bunch of crypto millionaires sucking each other's dicks.
- diveanon 5y agoExactly the kind of ignorant comment I’ve come to expect from this forum whenever crypto is even tangentially related to the topic. It’s been almost 15 years, you’re getting left behind.
- dang 5y agoPlease keep tedious flamewar off HN. You've been posting a lot like this, and we ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoFlamebait like this will get you banned here. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mmahemoff 5y agoYou might like Packy M's "The Great Online Game: How to Win the Internet." https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game I think it captures a lot of the current culture with crypto and NFTs. A lot of it reminds me of when reality TV began. Suddenly we had a new class of celebrities who weren't singers or actors. Reality TV stars, famous people whose claim to fame was being famous. Circular logic. Positive fedback loops. You should "invest" in this NFT collection because look at how many other people are buying this NFT collection. Web3 is more than speculative NFTs and I expect we'll see some important things come out of it, just with a lot of surprises and broken expectations along the way.
- Traubenfuchs 5y ago> we'll see some important things come out of it Like... what?
- mmahemoff 5y agoLike decentralised compute - putting idle CPUs and energy to use. How far that can be taken remains to be seen.
- Traubenfuchs 5y agoAh, you mean seti@home? That‘s like 22 yeas old.
- pcthrowaway 5y agoI look at many projects, token issuances, and defi protocols, as economic and social experiments.