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Moxie Marlinspike discusses #web3 ... #web2 ... #web1 ... and how much of the #cryptocurrency & #nft ecosystem (supposedly Web3 and decentralized) is already moving toward Web2 style decentralization.
https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
See also Andre Staltz' response: https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html
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First of all, I appreciate Moxie's honesty and directness. This isn't some cheap bash-and-trash. He actually tested some aspects of the #cryptocurrency and #web3 infrastructure and pointed out some glaring weaknesses.
Secondly, though, if you don't know history, you might not know that Moxie advocates for centralization, despite long-known security and privacy weaknesses that come when a centralized organization is the center of gravity in an ecosystem. His messaging software (Signal Messenger) is centralized.
And as Andre points out, Moxie glosses over one alarming consequence of centralization (the organization's ability to effectively disappear his NFT).