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by vmception 1737 days ago
crypto space is making use of the new ICANN approved TLDs pretty rapidly

their customers are on discord, twitter, telegram and wechat so email delivery is not a factor

the entire sites and revenue drivers are entirely client side (with the "servers" being the smart contract methods stored on the nearest blockchain nodes, this has only one initial upload cost but functions similarly to lambda functions except the users pay for the computations), when the domain is down or blocked, the user can interact directly with the nearest node hosting the website's associated smart contracts, if they are interested enough

this is working really well for a lot of organizations, and it has been this way for several years now

makes lean SaaS services even leaner, and allows them to grow even faster - as long as their customer base is already a crypto native. I haven't seen any organization succeed if they have to sell their customer on some crypto browser extension.
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peter_l_downs 1737 days ago
not sure why you're being downvoted -- one of the coolest parts of the web3 world is that you don't need a server, you just need static web hosting. This means that besides blockchain network / router speed (most transactions get broadcast through a few friendly or public nodes for each network, and each network has different transaction speeds) interacting with a web3 application is often extremely fast. The best web3 apps use cloudflare or some other equivalent and deliver static html/js/css from the edge https://twitter.com/simplyianm/status/1437506136568041472?s=...

And, yes, a lot of the new web3 projects use alternative tlds because they're cheap and catchy. They also tend to use food-related nouns as project/coin names because branding is hard and a lot of them haven't been used by companies in the past.

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vmception 1737 days ago
very few people understand the primary market in the crypto space, as they only know the speculation side and don't like that.

many of the people with the capacity to understand the primary market or revenue generating side are too busy hating that "crypto" gained an additional context that is more widely used than their enthusiast obscure cryptography interest and they use every comment section to let everyone know that when they aren't busy weeping under their Alan Turing shrines before they have flashbacks of boarding the bus at 7am to work for an ad conglomerate, a life they ironically respect more.

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