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The people who are advocating web3 are not the people who were part of building web1 & web2 (whatever those even mean). They're people who are idealistic & seem
by beardedman 5y ago
The people who are advocating web3 are not the people who were part of building web1 & web2 (whatever those even mean). They're people who are idealistic & seem to disregard (or are ignorant of) the effort in building infrastructure at scale. Building things is hard. Building things that scale even harder & anybody who has worked at a company that needs to scale knows there are trade-offs between security, centralisation, reliability & making things work for the user in a nice way. Web3 is a moot point until somebody actually brings something real to the party. Otherwise, IMO, it's a hype train.
EDIT: Ironically, web3 also seems to be able to rip the environment a new one. Which is pretty funny given the demographic of its fans.
- kinship7 5y agoDistributed wireless infrastructure is very real and a pretty clear use case of web3. Helium Network sells wireless routers, and distributes rewards to routers that provide coverage to the network. Tokens are used to purchase network bandwidth. They have nearly 400K hotspots worldwide. It's also not using the energy-intensive Proof of Work consensus algorithm that you're referring to.
- Zaskoda 5y agoI've been building for the Web since 1994. I advocate for Web 3.
- beardedman 5y agoNo offense, but my intention was to say people who built the web (infrastructure/protocols), not building for the web.
- Zaskoda 5y agoThere's basically one protocol that constitutes the web, http.