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Web3 is basically synonymous with defi right now, but I agree, there's a lot of potential in the next few years/decades. I'm fed up with institutions like Face

Web3 is basically synonymous with defi right now, but I agree, there's a lot of potential in the next few years/decades. I'm fed up with institutions like Facebook having unchecked control over who uses their platform when so much digital infrastructure is built on it. I realize it's not a popular idea with the HN crowd, but I think a revolution is coming, with decentralized tech at the forefront. Like it or not, most decentralized tech has seen very limited adoption, and an inability to compensate nodes seems to be a contributor to that. Greed is a really good motivator for people to step out of their comfort zones a little bit, and has clearly been driving adoption of technology that previously was hard to get people to adopt

tracyhenry 5y ago
if the major motivator is greed but not the intrinsic value of the tech, don't you think this is terribly broken?
- pcthrowaway 5y ago
  When has adoption of anything ever been driven by the general audience's interest in technology? edit: I misunderstood your post to be addressing the lack of interest in the tech, not suggesting it wasn't valuable. I wasn't suggesting there's no value to crypto and web3 tech though (I think there is... a lot), just that people are typically reluctant to embrace tech that might offer benefits (such as movement away from gated monopolies who don't face repercussions for abusing their power) when there is a significant learning curve. Being motivated by potential profit seems to have motivated people to learn more about decentralized technology than typically would.