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Popcorn Time felt more web3 than all crypto combined.

• divs1210 4y ago
  Agreed!
• sph 4y ago
  Indeed, web3 should be decentralisation & P2P to move away from silos, not crypto bullshit.
  • Kerrick 4y ago
    Way back in 2009, Tim Berners-Lee declared Web 3.0 should be about linked data and the semantic web. https://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0427-web30-tbl/ https://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0427-web30-tbl/
  • r0rshrk 4y ago
    If you ignore all the crypto grifters, it's indeed this.
• travjones 4y ago
  • julius_deane 4y ago
    leave it to the HN to complain about demonisation of scamtech
  • smcl 4y ago
    My impression is that overall HN was generally enthusiastic about cryptocurrencies and the tech powering them until a few recent scandals and scams. To be honest that is just broadly similar to public opinion (or at least, the portion of the public who have heard of cryptocurrencies)
    • antifa 4y ago
      > until a few recent scandals and scams Last year's endless deluge of scams and rugpulls will probably be cryptocurrency's Eternal September.
• atemerev 4y ago
  I think it is doable, I mean, rewriting it for Web3 stacks. But why bother? It works as is.
  • haswell 4y ago
    I read the parent comment differently. I believe the point is that Popcorn Time is/was a shining example of the decentralized web, to the point that it accomplished some of what “web3” claims it is trying to achieve (for a specific set of use cases), and therefore is “more web3 than crypto”. Retooling on a “web3 stack” would be pointless, because it is already accomplishing its goal without that stack.