What is Web3 and how does it differ to Web2?
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Web 3 is a marketing term leveraged by people trying to push blockchain into everything, even when blockchain serves no purpose in those cases. It’s pretty damn obvious because they always say it’s about the decentralization of the web. The web is ALREADY decentralized. The only reason you have huge players in it is because it turns out that building any sort of useful application on the internet is really complex and isn’t as simple as “just” hosting all your data on your phone.
Let’s put it this way. If all your data is on your phone and anyone wants to see any of your content, your phone has to be active 24/7. The only reason phones today have battery lives longer than a day is because they sit idle 99% of the day. It would be like having your phone streaming music 24/7. Or they host data on so called P2P networks. Yeah that technology already exists, it’s called bittorrent. P2P tech was all the rage back in the freaking 2000’s and there’s nothing blockchain adds to those decades old P2P tech. And this is only scratching the surface of all the problems Web3 and cryptobros gloss over when it comes to their “vision”.
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