Hacker News·4yMy first impressions of web3
Web3 aims to decentralize the internet in ways that web1 and web2 did not. The idea is that everyone on the internet would be both a publisher and consumer of content. But that is not what people want – they want to run their own servers. A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform.
Hacker News·4yweb3 is Centralized
The trend of communication and information becoming more centralized in large corporations is worrying and worth fighting against. "Web3," as it exists today and appears to be building towards, is actually more centralized than the web it seeks to replace. The reason people build on these fundamentally centralized technologies is actually pretty obvious: the vast majority of DAOs are transparently cash grabs.
freeCodeCamp·4yfreeCodeCamp Just Got a Million Dollar Donation from an Alum to Build a Carbon-Neutral Web3 Curriculum
A freeCodeCamp alum who founded his own successful Web3 company has donated $1M to free code camp. He asked that we use some of these funds to develop a carbon-neutral Web3 curriculum. This free curriculum will teach the fundamentals of smart contracts and distributed application development. It will teach you Web3 development through building more than a dozen projects.
Better Programming·4y“Has Anyone Seen Web3?” — The Complete Roadmap and Resources to Become a Web3 Developer in 2022
Web3 is built on peer-to-peer networks of computers that talk to each other without middlemen. The system itself is not a ‘ scam’ This is like calling the industrial revolution a scam because you don’t like Carnegie Steel. We are in the very early stages of development and there are bound to be many projects with flaws.
Hashnode·4yTwNFT - Mint your tweets as NFTs easily and for free
TwNFT is a simple web application that allows you to mint your tweets as NFTs for free. It is my submission for the Thirdweb x Hashnode Hackathon. TwNFT was announced back on the 5th of January, 2022 but I didn't get a solid idea until the 18th.