Having looked pretty deeply at various blockchain tech stacks over the years, this thread seems dead on.
People are holding on to *the dream*, and the fact that the tech will impoverish millions, help destroy the one world we share, and fail to avoid aggregation is immaterial.
People are holding on to *the dream*, and the fact that the tech will impoverish millions, help destroy the one world we share, and fail to avoid aggregation is immaterial.
https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1450879412442828808
I can't stress enough just how transparently wrong the "decentralised" claims are should you care to look.
Not the dream of decentralisation (whatever that is), but the lived reality of all these systems. Bitcoin? Mostly traded through exchanges now. And they will be regulated.
Not the dream of decentralisation (whatever that is), but the lived reality of all these systems. Bitcoin? Mostly traded through exchanges now. And they will be regulated.
"web3"? Well, you can't find anything...so you get alt-stack, slower, less capable versions of systems we already have:
ens.domains
ens.domains
Can't store NFT data on-chain because it's too expensive? Welp, there's gonna be a middle-person for that...and it will centralise and aggregate.
It's a very strange version of "being early is the same thing as being wrong"; in this case they're wrong *because* they're early
It's a very strange version of "being early is the same thing as being wrong"; in this case they're wrong *because* they're early
As this plays out, the forces that created aggregation and centralisation (DNS, e.g.) in the web's distributed underpinnings will take hold just as effectively here. One "solution" at a time.
Why? Because humans are the users.
Why? Because humans are the users.
If you want a "decentralised web" (whatever that is), like, hardcode IP addresses? Add new trust roots into your browser keystore? It's all there.
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