* [Digital Identity Wallet: A place for your self-sovereign identity](https://ssi-ambassador.medium.com/digital-identity-wallet-a-place-for-your-self-sovereign-identity-5dfbd3d48a74)SSI Ambassador
> This article explains what a wallet is, how it works and how you can use it for managing your digital identity. While there are also wallets for institutions, this article only focuses on wallets for end users. The article also takes into consideration the revised eIDAS regulation including the ‘European Digital Identity Wallet’.
> Constantin Kogan joins Fabian Vogelsteller, Ethereum developer, LUKSO founder, creator of Mist browser, web3.js, Feindura (CMS), ERC20, and ERC-725 protocols, and author of Meteor.js.
> The only falsifiable prediction I'm willing to make is that ten years from now, Chris Dixon and the Winklevoss Twins will be much richer than me, and my quality of life will be the same, or worse.
* [5 Mental Models for Web3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jezH_7qEk50)Bankless Chris Dixon
> There are five essential mental models to understanding why Web3 matters, and they overlap often throughout the course of the conversation.
>
> Web3 has begun to impact all corners of digital culture, from media to finance, art and gaming, and even identity. Mental models allow for digestible thinking patterns to understand and predict the world, and Chris lays out how these new digital primitives are changing everything.
* [Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0 — A Bridge Between the Past and the Future](https://academy.affinidi.com/web-2-0-vs-web-3-0-a-bridge-between-the-past-and-the-future-c99668c1e2f0)
> Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0 — A Bridge Between the Past and the Future Web 2.0 represents the Internet as we know it today and includes all the blogs, social media sites, shopping, news generation, and more! It is marked by user-generated content, interoperability across different services, usability, interactiveness, and high levels of participation.
* [How a Wikipedia editor](https://www.fastcompany.com/90733574/how-a-wikipedia-engineer-became-one-of-the-loudest-web3-skeptics)([Molly White](https://www.fastcompany.com/90733574/how-a-wikipedia-engineer-became-one-of-the-loudest-web3-skeptics)) [became one of the loudest Web3 skeptics](https://www.fastcompany.com/90733574/how-a-wikipedia-engineer-became-one-of-the-loudest-web3-skeptics)Fast Company
> I spoke with White via email about her views on Web3 fixtures such as DAOs (distributed autonomous organizations), cryptocurrencies, and NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
* [Web3, entangled: Holochain: a marlinspike to undo the knots](https://blog.holochain.org/web3-entangled/)
> Moxie argues that protocols evolve slowly, while platforms evolve quickly. That’s because a platform can make decisions without waiting for a whole crowd of others to reach consensus. But here’s the thing — some protocols don’t need to evolve quickly. As long as a ‘base protocol’ is versatile enough to let people create and express things in an unlimited range of fit-for-purpose application protocols, it can be as stale and boring as it likes. And it’s precisely the decentralisation, versatility, and stability of these base protocols — HTTP, email, and yes, Bitcoin and Ethereum — that allow platforms to innovate so quickly on top of them.
* [The Third Web](https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/) 2021-12-17
> A good explanation and good critique of Web3
* [Web3: Self-Sovereign Authority and Self-Certifying Protocols](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/02/web3_self-sovereign_authority_and_self-certifying_protocols.shtml)Phil Windley
* [What is Web3? Here Are Some Ways To Explain It To A Friend](https://consensys.net/blog/blockchain-explained/what-is-web3-here-are-some-ways-to-explain-it-to-a-friend/)Consensys
* [Framing and Self-Sovereignty in Web3](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/02/framing_and_self-sovereignty_in_web3.shtml)Windley
> The tools people have to participate in these territories, browsers and password managers, let us visit those territories, but we ourselves cannot be visited. We cannot act. Online relationships (client-server) are inherently asymmetric and the power accrues to those who define the territory.
* [Web3 brings the Digital Sovereignty back to the User thanks to Blockchain](https://knowledge.wealize.digital/en/blog/blog/web3-digital-sovereignty-blockchain)Wealize
> Web 3.0 encourages users participation and restore the control over their digital identity and assets
* [My first impressions of web3](https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html) 2022-01-07Moxie Marlinspike
*This guy gets it ^^^^^*
> Given the history of why web1 became web2, what seems strange to me about web3 is that technologies like ethereum have been built with many of the same implicit trappings as web1.\
> […]\
> Personally, I think enough money has been made at this point that there are enough faucets to keep it going, and this won’t just be a blip. If that’s the case, it seems worth thinking about how to avoid web3 being web2x2 (web2 but with even less privacy) with some urgency.
* [Web3, Coherence, and Platform Sovereignty](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/01/web3_coherence_and_platform_sovereignty.shtml)Phil Windley
> In [The crypto-communists behind the Web3 revolution](https://www.protocol.com/fintech/crypto-communists), Benjamin Pimentel argues that "The future of decentralized finance echoes a decidedly Marxist vision of the future." He references various Silicon Valley icons like Jack Dorsey, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and others, comparing their statements on Web3 and crypto with the ideology of communism.
* [Re: Web3 First Impressions by Moxie Marlinspike (was: Re: Ideals meet Implementations - Blockchains, NFTs, Decentralization, Oh My!)](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Jan/0202.html)1/25 Juan Caballero
> I recently read a twitter thread by an academic who abandoned a book-length monograph on O'Reilly, with multiple chapters on the vicissitudes of what O'Reilly kept trying to make Web 2.0 "mean" and what it ended up meaning after billions of dollars of VC and a decade-long hype cycle's worth of marketing and spin had been applied to it. Web3 is likely to be an even bigger, uglier, stupid semantic tug-of-war for some time\
> [...]\
> Anyways, I hope we can keep the CCG list a DMZ in this rapidly-escalating culture war, before "Web3" becomes the next "Critical Race Studies" or "Satanic Panic".
* [Defining the web3 stack](https://edgeandnode.com/blog/defining-the-web3-stack)Edge & Node
> This post will be a living document that I keep up with as I learn, experiment, and gather feedback from developers building in web3.
* [What is Web3 and Why It Matters](https://dionhinchcliffe.com/2022/01/11/what-is-web3-and-why-it-matters/)Dion Hinchcliffe 2022-01-11
* [OpenSea, Web3, and Aggregation Theory](https://stratechery.com/2022/opensea-raises-money-bans-nfts-openseas-value-cryptos-aggregators/)Stratechery
> what gives Aggregators their power is not their control of supply: they are not the only way to find websites, or to post your opinions online; rather, it is their control of demand. People are used to Google, or it is the default, so sites and advertisers don’t want to spend their time and money on alternatives; people want other people to see what they have to say, so they don’t want to risk writing a blog that no one reads, or spending time on a social network that because it lacks the network has no sense of social.
* [Web3 and Digital Embodiment](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/01/web3_and_digital_embodiment.shtml)Phil Windley
> Web3 will make a difference for all of us if it enables people to become digitally embodied, able to recognize, remember, and react to other people and organizations online—without the need to be in someone else's database.
> Key to this sociality is decomposable property rights and enhanced governance mechanisms—such as quadratic funding discounted by correlation scores—that reward trust and cooperation while protecting networks from capture, extraction, and domination. With such augmented sociality, web3 can eschew today’s hyper-financialization in favor of a more transformative, pluralist future of increasing returns across social distance.
* [Web3 Architecture and Tech Stack : A Beginners Guide](https://medium.com/toruslabs/a-beginners-guide-the-basic-web3-architecture-and-tech-stack-81f2061d263c)[Yashovardhan Agrawal](https://medium.com/@yashovardhana), Web3Auth
> Let’s transition our knowledge from Web2 to Web3 and know which technologies support what.
* [Podcast] [Self-Sovereign Digital Identity, Blockchain & Web3 with Charlyn Ho](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/45-self-sovereign-digital-identity-blockchain-web3/id1510232581?i=1000552163633) 2022-02-25 I also want money
> Could blockchain and the decentralized web mean the end of surveillance capitalism? Maybe! In this episode, Perkins Coie partner Charlyn Ho defines digital identity, explains how blockchain empowers users to take control of their data, and shares how Web3 could dismantle Big Tech’s monopoly on Big Data - if it’s built the right way.
* [Cautionary Tales from Cryptoland](https://hbr.org/2022/05/cautionary-tales-from-cryptoland)Molly White, HBR
> The ideological argument for Web3 is very compelling, and I personally hold many of the same ideals. I strongly believe in working toward a more equitable and accessible financial system, creating a fairer distribution of wealth in society
* [WEB2 VS WEB3](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/web2-vs-web3/)Ethereum.org
* [Using a Theory of Justice to Build a Better Web3](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/05/using_a_theory_of_justice_to_build_a_better_web3.shtml)Phil Windley
> Summary: Building a better internet won't happen by chance or simply maximizing freedom. We have to build systems that support justice. How can we do that? Philosophy discussions are the black hole of identity. Once you get in, you can't get out. Nevertheless, I find that I'm drawn to them
* [The 5 people empowerment promises of web3](https://reb00ted.org/tech/20220830-web3-empowerment-promises/) 2022-08-30Reb00ted [related](https://www.kaleidoinsights.com/web3-use-cases-5-capabilities-people/)
> As Jeremiah pointed out when we bumped into each other last night, public discussion of “web3” is almost completely focused on this last item: tokens, and the many ill-begotten schemes that they have enabled.
>
> But that is not web3’s lasting attraction. The other four promises – participation in governance, self-sovereign identity, content ownership and the freedom to build – are very appealing. In fact, it is hard to see how anybody (other than an incumbent with a turf to defend) could possible argue against any of them.
* [The Sovereignty Stack: Re-thinking Digital Identity for Web3.0 w/ Greg KIDD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGggZ2pT1I) 2021-10-04 Metaco
> Greg is a serial entrepreneur who is probably best known for founding and taking public Dispatch Management Services Corp, the world’s largest on demand dispatch network for urgent deliveries. In a highly interesting career so far, Greg was also Chief Risk Officer at Ripple Labs and a senior analyst for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington. In his latest venture Global ID, Greg is acting on his long-held belief that people’s identity should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments.
* [How Decentralized Identifiers and Bitcoin Fix the Web](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/dids-built-on-bitcoin-fix-the-web)Bitcoin Magazine
> On October 4, 2021, Facebook, along with WhatsApp and Instagram, [disappeared from the internet](https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/).
> Their DNS names stopped resolving, and their infrastructure IPs were offline. They were completely disconnected from the internet. At the same time, it was reported that [1.5 billion people allegedly had their personal data stolen from Facebook](https://www.privacyaffairs.com/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-forum/)and posted for sale.
* [Those Things Cannot Be Done Without Web3](https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/those-things-cannot-be-done-without-web3-4351efee3df)Ontology
> If you want to explain Web3 in the simplest language, I think it is a decentralized collaboration model.
* [3 Reasons Why Web3 Will Flip Digital Ownership On Its Head](https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/432166)Entrepreneur
> Despite people spending a lot of money today on all forms of digital content, from streaming service subscriptions to in-game purchases, we don't own any digital content we "buy" online.
* [State of Crypto Report](https://a16zcrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/state-of-crypto-2022_a16z-crypto.pdf)a16z
> web3 — which combines the decentralized, communitygoverned ethos of the first era with the advanced, modern functionality of the second era. This will unlock a new wave of creativity and entrepreneurship
* [Using a Theory of Justice to Build a Better Web3](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/05/using_a_theory_of_justice_to_build_a_better_web3.shtml)Windley
> Building a better internet won't happen by chance or simply maximizing freedom. We have to build systems that support justice. How can we do that?
* [Technology and System — Which is the primary productive force?: Hope, Confusion, and Practice of Web3](https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/technology-and-system-which-is-the-primary-productive-force-a6f8c4869ba9)Ontology
> OWN (Ontology Web3 Network) Infrastructure is a series of general blockchain basic protocols and products provided by Ontology for Web3 applications. Basic components including data and reputation, etc., and general-purpose tools such as a Web3 wallet, etc. Web3 applications can choose different basic components according to different scenarios for easy integration.
* [Web3: Self-Sovereign Authority and Self-Certifying Protocols](https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/02/web3_self-sovereign_authority_and_self-certifying_protocols.shtml)Windley
> When we dine at a restaurant in the physical world, we do not do so within some administrative system. Rather, as embodied agents, we operationalize our relationships by acting for ourselves. Web3, if built correctly, can help people to act as full-fledged participants in the digital realm.
* [The Center Will Not Hold: How Decentralization is Reshaping Technology and Governance](https://thedefiant.io/decentralization-upends-governance)The Defiant
> In this summary paper, we will explain the different components of decentralization, the benefits of decentralized systems, examples of how different projects have approached the process of decentralizing, and good-faith critiques of decentralization. This paper will act as a TL;DR summarizing the concept of decentralization within its current usage, while providing linked resources throughout for those interested in digging deeper into specific areas.
