on falling down the rabbit hole — Mirror

Chu's describes a short but meaningful journey exploring the technologies around web3.

I went into this exploration skeptical of whether there were any real applications for crypto because I've seen so many products that don't actually need to be built using blockchains. However, there are real use cases that have begun to take shape, and we're still figuring out the framework for how and where to apply these principles to our existing world collectively.

Two things I enjoyed about this:

1. Her passion and enthusiasm around the technology and what can be enabled with this technology stack comes through so strong. The builder ethos is strong here.
2. I can relate to many of the experiences she describes.

I have personally always found the decentralized aspect of the web so compelling. One of the most disappointing things for me around web2 is how it failed that decentralization. The current web is a shopping mall of "megacorps" pretending to be our best friends while they built a parallel economy of surveillance. web3 offers technology to alter that course dramatically.

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