Crypto: we’ll invent a new messaging protocol, better than all those previous protocols

￼The protocol:

Come build the most secure and private messaging network in the world—owned by the people who build it and use it.

wizard | building @neynar, advising /clanker and /farcon | grin.io

I just found this out recently, but @xmtp actually has a direct lineage from Whisper, the original messaging component proposed in the original Web3 writeup. Fun to see spammers catching on. I'm still rooting for it though 🎉

Always a pain to find because the terms are all so overloaded now, but this was, at least my first intro to web3. Not sure if anything major predates it.

Always a pain to find because the terms are all so overloaded now, but this was, at least my first intro to web3. Not sure if anything major predates it.
https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/18/building-decentralized-web