![]() “After 30+ years, email is still unencrypted meanwhile WhatsApp went from unencrypted to full e2ee in a year”, e2ee meaning end-to-end encryption. The main reason why the originally decentralized Web1 became the centralized Web2 is because “people don’t want to run their own servers, and never will” and “a protocol moves much more slowly than a platform.” As an example of the latter, Marlinspike points to email. Though Web3 being a somewhat ambiguous term, it should, according to Marlinspike, boil down to giving its users the “richness” of Web2, but in a decentralized way. ![]() People don’t want to run their own servers However skeptical, Moxie Marlinspike decided to give Web3 a try by creating two Web3 applications (dApps) called Autonomous Art, which lets anyone mint a token for an NFT by making a visual contribution to it, and First Derivative that allows users to create, discover, and exchange NFT derivatives which track an underlying NFT. ![]() “Also – cards on the table here – I don’t share the same generational excitement for moving all aspects of life into an instrumented economy,” Marlinspike writes. Marlinspike begins his post admitting he, despite considering himself a cryptographer, hasn’t found himself particularly drawn to “crypto“, and that he hasn’t yet managed to become a believer. In a blog post published on Jan 07, Moxie Marlinspike, creator and maintainer of the Signal messaging app, expressed concerns about Web3 and in particular its claim to be a new and decentralized future alternative to the platform behemoths of Web 2.0. ![]()
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