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They're absolutely inseparable. Web3, at least as I understand its fuzzy definition, is: websites, but... state stored on the blockchain! There are virtually 0
by the_gastropod 5y ago
They're absolutely inseparable. Web3, at least as I understand its fuzzy definition, is: websites, but... state stored on the blockchain! There are virtually 0 technical reasons for doing this—decentralization and most of the "neat" examples shown (e.g., logging into arbitrary websites without signing up) can be done much better sans-blockchain, using plain old asymmetric keys.
What's motivating this is people with deeply vested interest (a16z investors, in no small part) in crypto tokens (e.g. ETH) increasing in price.
- cableshaft 5y agoBitcoin doesn't have the capability to do smart contracts. There are bitcoin maximalists that are pretty anti-Web3. Jack Dorsey being one of those people.
- the_gastropod 5y agoWeb3 depends on "crypto" (blockchains). "Crypto" does not depend on Web3.
- smrtinsert 5y agoImmutable websites aren't an interesting idea?
- the_gastropod 5y agoNo. And, frankly, I'd think anyone with a half-a-brain and 30 seconds to think through the ramifications of such a terrible idea would be able to figure out why.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoThen web.archive.org wouldn't exist.
- the_gastropod 5y agoI promise you archive.org deletes things. Child porn, copyright infringements, government secrets, etc. certainly aren't "immutably" stored.
- cableshaft 5y agoWell one thing it helps combat is link/data rot (assuming that blockchain stays up of course). Meanwhile on our current web, data is disappearing all the time. Like this recent study on the links on NYT articles: "Predictably, it found that, as time went on, links were more likely to be dead: 6 percent of links in 2018 articles were inaccessible, while a whopping 72 percent of links from 1998 were dead." https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447690/link-rot-research-new-york-times-domain-hijacking https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447690/link-rot-researc...
- danaris 5y agoBut to the best of my understanding, none of the blockchains currently in widespread use can actually store whole websites on them. They can store....links. To existing webpages. Which are still hosted exactly the same way they've always been, and subject to the same likelihood of link rot.