Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed the advent of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology become the technological paragon and consequently, an investment zeitgeist. While you will find many polarizing views on cryptocurrency, you will find few (if any) naysayers or neophobic attitudes towards blockchain technology.
Why do I say that the advent of “Web3” is the Old Colossus? Simply because, nobody knows for certain what “Web3” is going to truly be at this juncture. You will not find somebody alive today who has seen the Colossus of Rhodes, and you will certainly not find somebody today who can tell you how (and when) “Web3” will become commonplace for the world wide web as we know it.
Unless you have been living under a proverbial rock for the past few years, you have undoubtedly heard about cryptocurrencies. Whether its Bitcoin, blockchain, NFTs…it is safe to say that cryptocurrency isn’t going anywhere, and will likely continue to assimilate into our daily lives
Over the past several years, there has been an evolution in end-to-end encryption (the acronym E2EE for short) messaging services. “WhatsApp”, undoubtably the most popular and most utilized E2EE service in the world (estimated 2 billion users), was acquired by Meta (Facebook) over 7 years ago. Second to “WhatsApp”, the E2EE messaging platform “Telegram” has over 800 million users. It would be safe to deduce that privacy oriented communication has become a staple for the world today.