Web3 skeptics and believers both need a reality check

  • This is just a sly marketing trojan horse shill piece for the Hedera crypto token.

    The author should FULLY disclose that he is working as a product marketer for this VC backed token [0].

    Any blockchain / hashgraph public or even private [1] and NFTs are still a scam. There is still no usecase in web3.

    [0] https://twitter.com/gehrigkunz

    [1] https://medium.com/@johny.codes/private-blockchains-even-wor...

  • The article, despite a "what is web3 anyway" section doesn't get any closer to concretely explaining why anyone would want web3 or what we would do with it. I see why unscrupulous VCs and developers want it, but there are no reasons a regular consumer would (just some vague "principles"). If this was a pitch, you'd expect people to say "so what?". If it does a concrete thing that a non "crypto investor" would care about, explain that thing and maybe people will use it. If in exchange for investing in whatever shitcoin someone is promoting I get to feel warm about "immutability" and "verifiability" and whatever while I have to pay some shitcoin every time I check my email, I don't see why I'd use it. It it's useful, it should be really easy to explain how.