Re: Ideals meet Implementations - Blockchains, NFTs, Decentralization, Oh My!

Moxie’s piece is excellent. I also found the comparison to web 1.0 and 2.0
in Tim O’Reilly’s article useful:

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-its-too-early-to-get-excited-about-web3/

I would like to read more thoughtful and well argued pro-web3 articles,
appreciate links from this community!

P


On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 1:28 PM Phillip Long <pdlong2@asu.edu> wrote:

> Anil: Moxie is the founder of Whisper Systems, acquired back in Twitter in
> 2011. Later he developed Signal (the secure messaging app), etc. A similar
> critique of web3 was published recently by Jeff Galloway (a polarizing
> voice for many to be sure) at https://www.profgalloway.com/web3/
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> On Jan 18, 2022, at 12:06 PM, John, Anil <anil.john@hq.dhs.gov> wrote:
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> Given the continuous discussions around centralization/de-centralization
> in our community, I found this essay by Moxie Marlinspike …
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> My first impressions of web3
> https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
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> … to have aspects that have relevance to the DID/VC work.
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> If you don’t know who Moxie Marlinspike is, recommend doing a bit of due
> diligence to find out.
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> Best Regards,
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