How did everyone get involved in web3?

AKA what’s your web3 origin story

genetically modified organism. synbio PhD. friend of bacteria. I make /synbio vids 🧬, co-host /science 👩🏽‍🔬, building /teaparty ☕️ 

Two paths IMO:

(1) Anti-censorship, anti-authority P2P tech lovers, into it since back before you could make a single dollar off of it. Gnutella, I2P, Freenet etc.

(2) Came for money, and absolutely would not have touched it otherwise.

Group 2 is mentally wrecked by bear, while 1 ok. 

Group 2 is 50x bigger than 1.