Re: Thoughts on Block's / Jack Dorsey's new DID+VC direction?

In Austin last week, it was fun seeing a bunch of web3 grapple with web5. I had to change my twitter bio from ‘web3’ to ‘web3’. Someone else said after web5, we must go to web8 (the next fibonacci number). A 20 year old crypto exec said to me “there’s too many webs now”. I asked “how many webs should there be?”

The thing I’m watching for here are which other did methods will work with this? The code is open source, but will it be easy to add support for other did methods or uniresolvers? How easy is this to self-host? Can I discover and install plugins? Is it fast and bug-free enough for it to be fun to use? are the apps local-first?

> On Jun 14, 2022, at 13:50, Liam McCarty <liam@unumid.co> wrote:
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> Coin Telegraph article (June 10): Jack Dorsey is building ‘Web5’ powered by Bitcoin
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> A few quotes:
> "Block subsidiary TBD has announced plans to build a new decentralized web centered around Bitcoin”
> "Web5 utilizes ION”
> "Web5 is essentially a decentralized web platform, or DWP, that allows developers to create decentralized web apps via DIDs and decentralized nodes”
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> TBD’s web5 website: https://developer.tbd.website/projects-index
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> A few notes:
> The components listed are DIDs, decentralized web nodes ("implementation of DIF's emerging decentralized personal datastore standard”), and a self-sovereign identity service and SDK ("that handles the full Verifiable Credentials lifecycle”).
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> I’m sure some of the people involved in this are part of this group! But curious more generally — what do you all think of this effort?
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> (Apologies if this has already been shared here!)
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> Liam
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> Liam McCarty
> CEO, Founder of Unum ID
> Forbes 30 Under 30 | Stanford Physics
> www.LiamHaleMcCarty.com
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