Welcome! I’ve read bunch of articles on Mirror, but never really thought of joining and posting. But hey, since I am in crypto/blockchain/web3 with all I have (and I don’t mean money, I mean brain power), I can as well start using the tools I preach and believe in.

So where is this “everywhere”? Well, look around you. We live in interconnected world - cars, businesses, your friends. They are all part of the large metaverse. I don’t mean a VR world, I mean your social networks, professional networks. You are looking into metaverse through a small (or larger) screen of the device in front of you.

I am just joining a specific part of this metaverse. The one that is trying to take it further, but also make it more fair and engaging.

How did I get here?

That is a very good question! I’ve been at the front of new technologies for a while.

I was there when systemd became a thing.

I was there when Docker brought Linux containers to masses.

I was there when the new shiny object called Kubernetes moved from bleeding edge to de facto standard.

And now I am here - looking at our virtual lives changing (once again?).

I’ve spent las 10 years building open source software at Red Hat. And I loved it for the most part - if you ask me about how do I feel about Red Hat these days, I’ll talk about it as excited as ever.

But as you can guess, I am no longer at Red Hat. “Why?” you may ask.

The answer is simple, yet complex, as everything in our lives. I left Red Hat because I really really wanted to dig deeper into what web3 really means. And I was also bored. I worked on an AI platform. As cool as it sounds, I am not a big fan of AI. Not in the sense most people think about it and use it. I think a lot of the hype ends up being “over promise and under deliver”, rather than useful and helpful.

But wait, you are now in the biggest scam and ponzi of the lifetime, ain’t ya?

What is web3?

I don’t know. I kinda know how it is percieved and I definitely know what I would like it to be.

The perception seems to be that it is full of scams (which I agree with) and that there is not one single project that is doing something useful (which I disagree with).

What I’d like it to be is a place where smart people come together and try to solve real world problems using bleeding edge technologies.

Some will immediately point out that public ledger is not that bleeding edge, but I’ll say that the way it is operated and used with blockchain and in web3, it is rather innovative.

What would I like web3 to be?

I’ve read a lot about what we could build using the new paradigms. The best 2 things I’ve seen recently are Hyperstructures and this blurb about someone joining a16z (no disrespect, I just never heard of that person, but following closely now).

The authors basically say the same thing on different levels of abstraction from the technology. But the message stays - web3 gives us the opportunity to cut the profits of intermediaries and leave them in the hands of users.

This is hard. Everyone wants to make money. Making money is the game of life.

Money is our score. There is no more generally accepted leader board than how much money you’ve made.

I am also here to make money. We all are. Well, I guess almost all of us, but I think I can generalise here.

But the way money is made and the amounts staying in the hands of few versus the hands of many is the difference. And web3 hopes and promises to be better at the money distribution.

Obviously, with currently ongoing crash, we can safely say, we are not there yet. This market crash did show one thing very well - greed always gets the best out of us.

Even I am to blame - I could have made so much money to fund so many cool things, hadn’t I been greedy.

But we are all learning and we keep playing the money game - as individuals and as organizations.

Enough! What do I want to build?

I would love to build something on the principles of Hyperstructure - an open protocol that allows anyone to use it. The protocol that actually adds value - not just extract it from the users to deliver it to owners or other users. The protocol that can be sustained and extended by the users.

How? I have my thoughts, but it is not gonna be one man show and we are still early. And also, I have so much to learn to be able to even assess if I am doing it right.

I’ll do my best to keep you up to date on what I’ve learnt and what I am building.

We are at the beginning - of a new journey, a bear market, a shift in the perception of web3. I like new beginnings. I really like things that I don’t understand, cause that means there is still a lot to learn and explore.

I really really like the web3 space.

Stay safe my virtual friends. Keep your private keys and seed phrases secure. Do not trust blindly.

It is the wild west and you need to be on look out for all the frauds. But also try to stay open minded and see if some of these things may help in the longrun.