What Is Web3?
by Thomas Stackpole
DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU heard about Bitcoin? Maybe it was a faint buzz about a new technology that would change everything. Perhaps you felt a tingle of FOMO as the folks who got in early suddenly amassed a small fortune—even if it wasn’t clear what the “money” could legitimately be spent on (really expensive pizza?). Maybe you just wondered whether your company should be working on a crypto strategy in case it did take off in your industry, even if you didn’t really care one way about it or the other.
Most likely, soon after Bitcoin came to your attention—whenever that may have been—there was a crash. Every year or two, bitcoin’s value has tanked. Each time it does, skeptics rush to dismiss it as ...
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