https://paragraph.com/@monkeyjoe Hello Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:14:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/db31ed4c041aee0cf642849785ac7b44a02c2de9e25db09aa207726cff266110.png https://paragraph.com/@monkeyjoe All rights reserved https://paragraph.com/@monkeyjoe/possibilities lVKZwZcQCLpBSgi09akX Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:59:22 GMT I first entered Web3 since October 2021… By November 2023, I would describe the experience as, at worst, an unmitigated disaster and, at best, “a (very) expensive learning experience” although even then, deep down, I felt that the principle lesson was that NFTs & Web3 are the Wild West and I’m not cut out for a life on the frontier.

I was done. Absolutely done. Almost…

November 2023 saw a shift in the current which ultimately led to what felt like a sea change. The lessons did begin to pay off and some of the earlier mistakes manifested opportunities. So I stuck around. I started trying new things and saw that if I looked past the highly visible chancers, charlatans & crooks in Web3, behind them still lay an abundance of possibility enabled by this new and exciting technology.

Yes, a large part of Web3 still feels like the Wild West and I’ll unlikely ever persuaded otherwise, but there could still be gold in them there hills and I won’t let the Dutch Van Der Linde’s of this space keep me from it.

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