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| − | * With the shift to mobile, we now live firmly in a world of clients and servers – with the former completely unable to act as the latter – and those questions seem more important to me than ever. Meanwhile, Ethereum actually refers to servers as “clients,” so there’s not even a word for an actual untrusted client/server interface that will have to exist somewhere, and no acknowledgement that if successful there will ultimately be billions more clients than servers.<ref | + | * With the shift to mobile, we now live firmly in a world of clients and servers – with the former completely unable to act as the latter – and those questions seem more important to me than ever. Meanwhile, Ethereum actually refers to servers as “clients,” so there’s not even a word for an actual untrusted client/server interface that will have to exist somewhere, and no acknowledgement that if successful there will ultimately be billions more clients than servers.<ref name=moxie /> |
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Revision as of 06:45, 21 May 2022
Full Title or Meme
People do not want to run their own servers, and never will.[1]
Context
- Web3 is Inconvenience reified.[2]
Problems
- With the shift to mobile, we now live firmly in a world of clients and servers – with the former completely unable to act as the latter – and those questions seem more important to me than ever. Meanwhile, Ethereum actually refers to servers as “clients,” so there’s not even a word for an actual untrusted client/server interface that will have to exist somewhere, and no acknowledgement that if successful there will ultimately be billions more clients than servers.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Moxie Marlinspike, My first impressions of web3 https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
- ↑ GILAD EDELMAN, Paradise at the Crypto Arcade: Inside the Web3 Revolution Wired (2022-05-10) https://www.wired.com/story/web3-paradise-crypto-arcade/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired
