A comprehensive, pragmatic, ethical exploration of Web3 - Rob Moore - NDC Sydney 2022

Web3. It's a term and surrounding ecosystem that has taken over our social feeds for the last 6+ months. Let's be honest, it's also a debate; some have even labelled it as a culture war! We are seeing extreme, often emotionally driven, reactions on both sides of the debate. This entire space is so confusing and overwhelming. In addition, there is lots of confusing terminology and technical concepts and it’s a space that’s evolving rapidly and hard to keep up with. As technologists we were curious what all the fuss was about so we spent months researching the space to understand the good, bad and ugly and make up our own mind, and we did it with an ethical, pragmatic lens. In this presentation, we'll explore the culture war, cover the comprehensive set of issues we found with space and describe a comprehensive decision framework we created against these issues. As part of that decision framework, we will articulate the pragmatical and ethical implications of participating in this space for each consideration and talk about the stance that we decided to take as a company. Our hope is this serves as a useful resource for individuals and companies to make informed decisions about what you are and aren't comfortable engaging with in this space. Check out more of our featured speakers and talks at https://ndcconferences.com/ https://ndcsydney.com/ Check out our new channel: www.youtube.com/@UCDAfoBRLbriD_c4F-DznWcA