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My first impressions of web3

Moxie Marlinspike · 7 Jan 2022 · moxie.org ↗

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  1. Our reading

    People do not want to run their own servers and never will, so a system has to distribute trust without distributing infrastructure.

    Their wordsPeople don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    web3 is not on a path away from centralised platforms, and its privacy story is already below the internet’s low bar.

    Their wordsI don’t think it’s on a trajectory to deliver us from centralized platforms, I don’t think it will fundamentally change our relationship to technology, and I think the privacy story is already below par for the internet (which is a pretty low bar!), but I also understand why nerds like me are excited to build for it.
    Interesting