[afavour]

This isn't really about what is technically possible but rather where the critical mass of thought/discussion is. There are a whole bunch of things you can do with crypto but the majority of what is being done, talked about and hyped up is a money grab.

[rglullis]

How is that different from "web1"? Do you think that the internet became a mainstream thing just because the suits looked at what the nerds were doing and thought "oh, this is cool!" or do you think that they were attracted to it when they saw the chance of making big money?

How is that different from "web2.0"? Do you think that "the web as an application platform" and "freemium SaaS" because of the technical superiority of the web, or because all the money in Silicon Valley needed a place to go, and it ended going to repackage every already-existing utility as a web application, and later on as a mobile app?

Yeah, so a bunch of people now are hyping "web3" and quite likely they are doing it as an attempt to make money out of it. Just like every other industry from our modern globalized society.