Howdy! Today we're talking about reactions to Jack Dorsey's tweetstorm about Web3 and the Facebook whistleblower's words for Mark Zuckerberg.
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1. Jack Dorsey took to Twitter to bash Web3. Other experts have chimed in. Notable figures like Elon Musk responded, with the Tesla chief asking if "anyone's seen Web3." The next generation of the internet has been touted as a decentralized alternative to Big Tech — but many experts are unconvinced.
- The former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan responded to Dorsey, arguing Web3 presents the possibility of building a better internet, but Box CEO Aaron Levie said it would merely create "underlying toll booths" for users.
- Gaby Goldberg, a crypto investor, thinks the internet evolution will bring about greater competition for tech firms while giving power back to consumers.
- IBM Research software architect Grady Booch doesn't think Web3 will be able to scale efficiently to billions of users due to the "computationally expensive" structure of blockchain technology.
Here's what else top web and digital asset experts are saying.
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