"This was surprising to me. So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from these two companies without any further verification."

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Today we'll be continuing our exploration of why web3 matters with this take by Moxie, the founder of Signal. He took some time to play around with building on web3 and shared his well thought reflection.

The first part is reading his article, the second is a readthrough of Vitalik's rebuttal/thoughts followed by the 'Yosh's take'.

Link to original article: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Link to Vitalik's answer: https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/ryk3it/my_first_impressions_of_web3