I read up on what Protocol Labs are doing. Seems pretty not-useful to me living in the real world. I'm pretty sure distributed vague-but-epic-crypto-bro-sounding super-important-"let's back up the worlds most important information on the blockchain and also it's a file system like dropbox but on the chain" resonates with some folks, but to me, it's just more of the same: rich folks saying that they better have control of the info, the coins, the way its distributed. It all comes down to _agency_. They actually want to be a centralized owner of information. Crypto is full of ridiculous offerings like Protocol Labs.

I think the web already solves this problem. That's the larger issue I have with web3, trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

I appreciate you reading to and responding to my words, and I'll try to find something useful in their offering in the real world. But, honestly, their layoff statement was all I needed to know, a CEO completely out of touch with main street and living in the crypto-futurist-whiz-bang-only-for-rich-folks future. Maybe one day folks will call things as they see it, for instance blockchain might have a future as a rebrand under "append-only ledgers" (technology from the 1970's), etc. But a specific example, just for the sake of discourse, would be appreciated here.

Do you have any examples?