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by dumbfounder 978 days ago
It's what a lot of web3 believers are trying to build, but it's very hard to both profit and give up control, resulting in a lot of people pretending to do web3 but really it's just web2 with some web3 window-dressing. But, people will keep trying, and maybe they will get it right one day. The dollars right now aren't flowing into web3 though so it may be a while.
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HumanOstrich 978 days ago
Oh plenty of dollars flow into "Web3" -- they just immediately flow out to scammers and hackers.

"Revenue is way up for our Web3 SaaS this qua- aaaand it's gone."

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dumbfounder 978 days ago
Yep that's the other problem, people write off web3 because of scammers and other scumbaggery, but there is good work being done.
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HumanOstrich 978 days ago
That's rather disingenuous.

The problem is that the technology enables illicit activity on a large scale because of its core premises.

The problem is NOT that people write it off because of the risks built-in to the technology, at least for most people. I'm sure scammers and crypto zealots do consider that a problem.

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