The metaverse has not yet been warmed up, what is the ghost of Web3?

Wen 丨 賴夕

The concept of the frontiers of the Internet is running out.

Brian Brook, who briefly served as acting director of the U.S. Office of the Currency, was widely circulated at a recent congressional hearing explaining to lawmakers what Web3 is, and after being added Chinese subtitles for the first time, it was a complete internal and external blossom.

Brian Brook, a law firm by law firm, has long been an out-of-court activity whose greatest achievements include clearing pre-IPO compliance hurdles for Coinbase before joining the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is seen by speculators as a dark pillar into the bureaucracy because of its friendly stance on cryptocurrencies.

At one point, Trump nominated Brian Brook to formally take charge of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, but died of a defeat in the re-election, Brian Brook resigned during the cabinet purge, and then joined Binance, founded by Zhao Changpeng, who had just been crowned the so-called "richest man in China", and left less than half a year later.

Web3 is said to be the future of the Internet, paradoxically, all the voices that must say the future have skipped the argument process, but directly thrown out this conclusion as a fait accompli, followed by difficult words, what "DAO", "DeFi", "NFT", "Crypto" and the like, attracted everyone to bengbu, the store is full of happy air.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have any hostility to Web3, and as a first-hand witness to the Web2 era — oh, we called It then — I know all too well how this excitement is stirred up, in fact, the charm of utopia lies in the beauty of what it seems to be within reach.

TapTap founder Huang Yimeng said that when he was doing VeyCD in Shanghai more than a decade ago, he met with Douban's Abei and Mtime's Ma Ruila at Starbucks to discuss how to open up the film materials of the three websites with an open agreement:

"It was the golden age of Web 2.0, and everyone took it for granted, and each website did its job to piece together a richer Internet. APIs, RSS, and XML exports that don't require login registration are all standard in the current year."

And now, TapTap strictly abides by Apple's rules, as a mobile game sharing community, its iOS client can not even download the game button can not appear, Douban has just been fined 10 times, and for abuse of privacy was forced to remove from some app stores, and Marilla has long sold Mtime, and now does "a lot of inspiration from Notion" imitation Notion application.

The "Xinhua Dictionary" revised in 1998 is not deceiving me, and Zhang Hua, Li Ping and everyone have a bright future.

In any case, even the beneficiaries of the past two decades believe that the fruits of the Web 2.0 revolution have been stolen, but there is a high degree of uncertainty as to where the stealth thief came from.

It is said that Facebook is a super platform, and everyone can produce content, which has become the truth that everyone is working for the platform, and the return has been reduced to broken silver and soup.

It is said that apple is an ecological giant, closed apps have ended the open Web, the flow of data has since stagnated, and everyone has been exquisitely captive in the garden.

Some say that it is algorithmic and regulatory, the excess of information has trapped people in the cocoon of giving and taking, and governments have realized the necessity of the Internet is not an extralegal place.

The problem is that, although history desperately needs an explanation of how the Internet came to such a terrible state as it is today, it has happened after all, and no amount of observation can interfere, and in the current timeline, His Majesty the Venerable and Great Emperor Lei must have arrived at the B station faithful to him.

The Web3 that came out of nowhere has a good point, that is, it runs faster than anyone, just when the legacy of the classical Internet is still reminiscing about the watery years, the people who invented the word classical Internet have begun to advocate not breaking, and they have their presence in the publicity of the previous cutting-edge concepts.

When the NFT came out, it was they who were hyping digital collectibles, when the meta-universe came out, it was they who could mine and buy a house in the Dapp, the ICO a few years ago did not succeed, so they changed the DAO to pick up customers, and the latest concept was Web3, unsurprisingly, once again called epoch-making value.

Once can be a coincidence, twice can also be, every time there are you guys, not quite right, right?

It can only be said that the coin circle for one day, three years in the world, is worthy of being a professional Internet revolution publisher, always on the exciting journey, that is, never out of bound copies.

In Brian Brook's video, his typical nomadic phrase — "Make sure the Web3 Revolution takes place in america" — not only pierces the deliberations of senators, but also shatters the small abacus of the Jane-Chinese currency circle, and one by one tears are in their eyes, shouting that new competition has arrived.

Too cheap empathy is just overindulgence.

I can still understand the essence of this set of gameplay, because there is only a hammer in my hand, so everything is a nail, it can only be a nail, everything is a system problem, everything can be solved by digital wallets and bookkeeping, take back our Internet ownership, just start from buying coins, boy, I see that you are gifted, must be a martial arts wizard, I have a few coins in my hand, do not consider ...

Yes, we were all lying in the gutters and needed someone to look up at the starry sky, but be careful that the starry sky might just be the canvas of a tent.

The idea of Web3 is certainly good, a decentralized Internet built and owned by all users, there is no reason why it will not attract technology enthusiasts who still have ideals in the digital world, but complex problems can never be erased by simplification, especially the act of peddling universal tablets, which is just looking for the next leek.

I also remember that in the old Web 2.0 era, P2P technology also represented the future of the Internet, and the decentralized mechanism that everyone can pay and everyone can benefit from once provided an incomparably broad imagination space.

At that time, Thunderbolt was shouted everywhere for his "blood-sucking" design that refused to reciprocate, the popular sentence in major forums was "be a kind of man", the pirate bay was not entangled in successive lawsuits, and Aaron Swartz had not yet committed suicide.

Then there was no more, Thunderbolt ironically became the only surviving public company, Jobs saved the record company that was forced to the edge of the cliff with the iPod and "you don't have to be a thief", Netflix covered more than two hundred countries around the world, and Chinese netizens also received the benefit of advanced on-demand.

Everyone still has a bright future.

However, in the secret place, there are still a few PT sites that follow the ancient law, only by participating in the contribution of how many resources, how much resources can be allocated, which is instead echoing the proposition of Web3 across time and space, but it is also lonely, which fully proves that the people who shout out the revolution and the people who participate in the revolution are often not the same.

Let's end this article with a close-up example of Web3:

OpenSea is an NFT exchange, all the new concepts you can think of, this company uses, in short, the Internet revolution concentration is exceeded.

Because the management team has repeatedly said that Web3 will be the future of the company, those who are greatly moved by the new concept advocates, they have registered multiple accounts, spontaneously "swiped orders" in the OpenSea exchange, just to help OpenSea increase the flow of water to revitalize revenue, and spare no effort on all social media for its platform, shouting that the Web3 revolution has come.

This group of tap water of course also has its own small nine-nine, in their plan, after the OpenSea fire will inevitably issue token financing, and airdrop tokens to the active accounts in the community to express their gratitude, they can then sell the tokens to monetize, enjoy the return of the company's growth.

It's a win," did you?

As a result, OpenSea did fire and decided to expand and develop, but its financing form still chose the traditional listed exchange and intended to list and issue shares.

The news came out, the openSea's iron fans neatly collapsed mentality, your performance comes from our collective contribution as a Web3 native, unexpectedly turned around and was sold, you went to the world of Web2 to share the proceeds with those primitive humans who used paper money, which is also shameless.

It's funny to collapse overnight.

If the short experience of surfing the Internet has taught me anything, it is that no matter in which universe or what layer of the Web, human nature has never changed, the world is bustling, and the promised land that often appears in front of your eyes will probably only be in the process of promise forever.