most exhausting people to discuss web3 with are faang-type bay area engineers who ask you this question: "what can blockchain do that my python+postgres cannot do" I most times wonder how builders of distributed systems be not curious about one of the most successful one
It reminds me of this conversation with Gates in 95: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipL_CEw-fk
It is dumbfounding. The HN antipathy to all things blockchain depresses me. IMO it's a sad truth that most opinions are emotionally-based and then rationalized, but we typically converse as if it's otherwise.
I can understand it. It's hard to see the forest for the trees. There are so many dubious and outright fraudulent projects out there. Even many legitimate use cases don't _need_ web3 when looking at them individually, the power of web3 comes when it's pervasive, it's a paradigm!
I used to work at a (very popular) website that was powered by a monolithic server+db. Any non-trivial change had to be vetted by a group of senior architects, since anything could bring the whole site down. Microservices were scoffed at. Same vibes.