Hi thanks for the feedback! About my writing style in general: I usually write as if I'm writing to my younger self, telling him what I wished he learned faster. Perhaps I should be kinder to him. I'll be careful not to mean to others next time. However, I don't feel like we have to be nice to the 'web thought leaders' who have cashed in their tokens for real money already. They're the grifters. The stories from people making real money from selling crypto are to be found everywhere, but obvs that pyramid scheme/lottery situation means that lots of others lost their money. I hear too little from them.

I was genuinely pissed off about all the time I put in trying to read all that techno babble various blockchain websites only to find out that most of them are just a scheme to turn tokens into money. I'm disappointed in the tech community for not being more vocal against the hype. So I wanted to put out there what I learned, so that others can see things not through the lens of 'next big thing', but 'possibly made by someone who wants my money'.

All we want to know is, where's the beef?

Don't forget there are a lot of well-to-do devs here who just want to know what the technical details are. A lot of us are no longer in it for the money.

The author is basically calling out the proponents of "web3" to define it with RFC-level detail, something that I think would be tremendously beneficial to everyone in this debate.

I read that point about Discord differently: One of the often stated advantages of blockchain technology lies in the ability to build decentralized and censorship-proof social platforms. And yet there doesn't seem to be such a platform, people still use Discord.

> You can be certain that the vast majority of

[citation needed].

Plus, this wouldn't even make their argument any more valid: there are, sadly, today, still plenty of well-off big co's owners/shareholders that will tout capitalism in its current form is perfectly fine and the world is going fine and their strategy is making them richer, so why wouldn't anyone else join?

> Plus, this wouldn't even make their argument any more valid

I am saying don't declare that anyone who holds crypto must be dismissed.

Yeah, the best way to get upvoted on Hacker News is to write a negative post about the future of crypto, it doesn't even have to be a good post, a badly written one like this will suffice.