# Day 0 - Hello web3

By [Ram](https://paragraph.com/@ram008) · 2022-04-01

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First post via Mirror - this is going to be a journal of random thoughts or should I say ramdom thoughts. Recently I have spent a lot of time going down the web3 rabbit hole and try to incorporate it in every day of my existence. After all life is too short to allow it to be controlled by some large corporation. This appeals to me especially since I have loathed bureaucracy from a very early age.

Bitcoin was first introduced to me in some random podcast in 2010 which advised, buy a little Bitcoin every single day, even if it is only for change from coffee. Had I needed that advice and this is fate, I thought about it several times but did not act. Creating a wallet, buying BTC seemed like an ordeal and was much harder than it is today. But the concept of digital gold seemed compelling and that is what the world has come to realize in no small way over the past two years.

After Bitcoin, coming from a family of bankers, the idea of Defi was, well liberating. Cutting the middleman and being able to transact directly, who does not dig that? Creating liquidity pools, lending to peers, flash loans and such. I got sucked into these rabbit holes and I am at a point where I don’t see the point behind a bank account, KYC and such. In fact whatever little savings I have left after paying the bills, taxes, day care and mortgages, I put into defi.

Then came dApps, this is where things got really interesting. The publishing platform you are reading this on is dApp. Having been involved in web1, I sat out web2 and am back in web3. There is much to be explored and this journal is not just on web3, but I suspect it will figure prominently whenever there is an Aha moment or I learn something new that I want to record or share.

Will talk about DAOs and other stuff a little later… exciting things and lots of concurrent changes for me at this point. I am starting to appreciate the meaning of the journey we all need to take to understand ourselves and our purpose before aspiring or moving heads down into doing something… more on that coming up in future posts.

Ram.. Out

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*Originally published on [Ram](https://paragraph.com/@ram008/day-0-hello-web3)*