21st Century Innovative Technologies and Developments as also discoveries, curiosity ( insolite)...

Take a moment and think of everything wrong with the online world, from data breaches to violations of privacy to the overweening power of big tech.

Then imagine them disappearing. Gone. Just like that.

Sounds appealing? Well, you've just heard the first line of a sales pitch-cum-revolutionary manifesto that's gaining traction in San Francisco and Washington DC. It goes by the name of web3.

The gist is familiar from revolutionary statements throughout history. Wrest power from the establishment, return it to the people, make everyone happier and richer along the way.

The tools we're told can achieve this are as modern as it gets. The heart of the plan is to rebuild the foundations of the web using the blockchain technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

According to Web3's backers, it is possible to take anything - or, indeed, everything - that is online and put it on the blockchain, the energy-intensive ledger which enables data to be stored collectively without the need for a central record-keeper.

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In a nutshell, it’s a domain name for your crypto wallet. It works just like it does on the internet (like www.thenextweb.com) and helps you easily find a site. A .eth domain name makes it easier to link to your wallets and apps on web3.

Technically, your wallet address looks something like this: 0xD8046FBC80020b35c7d90B4Cb2C04FfA7446AE25.

This string has 42 characters, so there’s no way in hell you’re going to remember it. So if a friend asks you for your wallet address, it’s easier to send them “blah.eth,” rather than this long string.

Plus, if you get even one character in the string wrong, you might end up sending cryptocurrency to someone else — and there might be no way to recover those coins.

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