[Theodores]

What is the 'web 3.0' Opera speak of? Is this a buzzword too far? I think I get the idea - semantic web where the web knows loads of stuff about you thanks to your browser, however, if I was in a client meeting and spoke of 'web 3.0' I would expect people to think I had gone mad, taken too many drugs, arrived pissed and generally jumped the shark. It is not a helpful buzzword and it surprises me that marketing for Opera use such a vague buzzword.

Regarding the crypto wallet that is built in, who honestly believes in the crypto future these days? The fad is over and nobody is interested in the fake bitcoins. Bitcoin dominance is on the rise and the other 'coins' only persist due to people 'HODLing', i.e. holding on to the 'coins' they have out of the hope that one day some greater fool will come along and be interested in what they have 'invested in'.

Alt coins and their apparent value reminds me of those holiday homes people built but did not complete in Spain, Ireland and elsewhere prior to the 2008 crash. If you go to Spain you can still see these properties and notionally these useless buildings have got 'value'. Eventually someone will come along and find use for the properties, even if it is to use them for keeping cattle in. The owners are not selling as they have negative equity. That residual value does fluctuate with movements in the currency markets much as the values in fake bitcoins does move up and down. But there is no income, the capital is not employed to generate a profit and the assets are worthless yet worth something at the same time.

On this analogy it is like Opera think the good old days of 2008 will come back. Or in alt-coins, the good old days of December 2017.

The 'good old days' of crypto are not coming back. There are no greater fools foolish enough to want to buy in. The 'dApps' never arrived, much like the tourists that never arrived in the pre-2008 speculator Potemkin villages of Spain, Ireland etc. Mainstream people just do not want to have anything to do with it, crypto is just not cool. Opera must be very desperate to want to tie their fortunes to 'crypto wallets'.