Re: Moxie on Web3
Both authors are conflating 2 different things and managing to talk past each other.<p>Moxie did conflate the state of Ethereum with the technical state of blockchain technology as a whole. In practice I am not sure this conflation actually matters though as right now most of the interesting stuff that is happening -is- on Ethereum. For the most part Moxie&#x27;s arguments are completely on point regarding deficiencies in the offerings and the improvements he suggests would both be simple and materially improve them (whilst not addressing Mike&#x27;s main problem which is semi-centralisation).<p>Mike manages to completely miss Moxie&#x27;s point regarding how cryptography can be used to obviate some of (but not all) the problems with centralised infrastructure and work with the devices people actually have and use (mobile phones). He goes on to argue that if &quot;people would just have desktops&#x2F;linux servers at home this would all be different&quot;. But that isn&#x27;t going to happen, that is a fantasy land.<p>The world isn&#x27;t going back to a fully decentralized web. There are very good practical, commercial and political reasons for this.