Casual Ethereum Web3 Get Together

Our Get Together is a place for people interested in:
How Blockchains are building a backbone to a new internet (called web3) and new ways for human beings to organize. If you are interested in the topic, feel free to join our small round-table get together!

Monday, February 18th 2019; 7pm

Feel free to prepare topics to speak about and bring friends!

This new internet - called Web3 - is...

Web3 is a name for the idea of building a better internet with blockchains (such as Ethereum) as its backbone.

Web3 defines an internet that breaks with the tradeoff between convenience and control, an internet where control over the technologies and applications that we use every day is clearly defined.

First, Money is already becoming a native feature of the internet. We have discussed this various times during meetups before. New ways to do social media, incentivized participation in online communities and more.
Second, “decentralized” applications will offer users new capabilities: Imagine accessing an internet with certainty that access permission, business rules, fees etc don't change - because no single person has that power.
Third, users will have more control over their digital identities and data: Imagine a social media which can't extract your data, because you didn't allow so. Imagine being able to proof aspects of your identity - automatically - to any software.

Reading & watching tips:

Lo and Behold, an movie by Werner Herzog gives a view on the history of the internet and what it was built to be. Find the movie online or watch this interesting excerpt with Elon Musk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6rMEIGp9s

Making sense of Web3 by Josh Stark https://medium.com/l4-media/making-sense-of-web-3-c1a9e74dcae

Peter's Before Bitcoin series on how bitcoin happened to be: https://medium.com/@pet3rpan/history-of-things-before-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-part-one-e199f02ca380