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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

It's interesting to see the pundits all weighing in on web3 these days. I'm not sure what has prompted it - nothing really significant has happened in the last few months; it's just blockchain and tokens and NFT and IPFS as usual. A lot of the commentary has been quite critical - see, for example, Doug Belshaw commenting of a reecent paper that "There are so many issues with it that I don't really know where to start." Here Bryan Alexander describes an interview with the paper's author; "our community started in with questions and pushback and we went all over the place, together: credentials, centralization vs decentralization, privacy and cryptography, the purpose of education." Just for fun, and to remind readers that this isn't something that started this week, I bring you my History of web3 on OLDaily page for your enjoyment.

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