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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’ by acdha on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:34PM (#33487469)
It’s a prototype but also not how most cryptocurrency people use blockchain. It’s a shared ledger between a couple of banks, organized by a central bank. It’s no surprise that this works because it doesn’t drag in all of the notorious drawbacks trying to do the pseudo-anonymous permission-less stuff, or trying to be a separate currency.
Re:Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’ by RestlessMind on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:07AM (#33501427)
What is the specific drawback of pseudo-anonymous permission-less stuff?

> trying to be a separate currency.

None of the serious crypto projects I am aware of (which are Bitcoin, Ethererum and its L2's basically) claim to be a currency. Bitcoin is an asset. ETH is a currency only for the ETH ecosystem and does not claim to be something along the lines of a popular definition of currency.