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I really liked this description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

That's a great video addressing many problems of crypto, like

- issues with privacy

- inability to hide data, piracy

- manipulated prices (due to "anonymity")

- bugs in smart contracts, problematic code redeploy

- questionable economy models of NFT games

You aren't old. I'm really into crypto and relatively young. I've stayed away from the "crypto realm" for about a year and still playing catch up as a person who was involved in it.

There's just too much going on.

That would be great, a Web3 starter guide. Right now it feels like an empty container in which you’re allow to stuff anything as long as it’s vaguely crypto related.

Right now I’m questioning if Web3 is even a thing.

One thing I do know. I am learning Ethereum and the NPM library you use to interact with smart contracts either in the front end or back end is called web3. So maybe that is where the name came from or maybe the name came first and the library just used it.