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Sunday, March 06, 2022

Rebuilding Wikipedia with Crypto as W3

Been quite interested in how projects like Wikipedia can usefully and safely interact with W3, and in what way. Do not understand the take here, but think it may become important.   Like to see this further outlined. 

Why You Can't Rebuild Wikipedia with Crypto from ACM Opinion   By Platformer

Molly White is a software engineer and creator of the website "Web3 Is Going Just Great."

"Web3 Is Going Just Great" chronicles the latest crises in NFTs, DAOs, and everything else happening in crypto. In an interview, White discusses the site's origins, her favorite crypto catastrophe, and why she thinks giving people financial stakes in projects will not create a host of new Wikipedia-style projects, as decentralization advocates often claim.

"It's concerning to me when people are trying extremely hard to get people to buy in to some new idea but aren't particularly willing (or even able) to describe what it is they're doing," White says. "I was seeing all of this hype for Web3 with all these new projects, but so many of them were just absolutely terrible ideas when you got past the marketing-speak and veneers."

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