A word I see a lot on the peripheries of web3 is “unstoppable”. Like ‘decentralised’, ‘composable’, ‘trustless’ and ‘permissionless’ it is an epithet that captures something important about why web3 is new and different. Many of today’s most popular blockchain protocols are ‘unstoppable’, and I will try here to make explicit what that means in case your head is not as far down the rabbit hole as mine. (A caveat is that I’ve only been digging in earnest for a few months here so it’s possible t...
