Unless you’re a denizen of the internet with at least a little bit of interest in cryptocurrency, you likely haven’t heard of Web3 yet.
If you’re not a cryptocurrency person, I can feel your eye rolls from here. “Crypto again, here we go!” Yes, I know. Bitcoin has been around forever.
That’s not what I’m talking about though.
Web3 is an idea for the future of the internet where the entire web is built on blockchains, decentralizing it and putting control back into the hands of the people rather than Big Tech companies. The term Web3 — or Web 3.0 — began floating around in 2013 and refers to the next phase of the World Wide Web after Web 2.0, the age of interactive websites that started around 2004, and the original Web, which consisted of lots of read-only websites.
So what would a blockchain internet look like? What is a blockchain anyway?
A blockchain is a chain or…
