I’ve Moved Onchain – AVC – Cyber Tech

Over the previous couple of years, I’ve moved my web life from web2 to web3 and infrequently use any web2 companies anymore.

So I’m beginning a collection referred to as “I’ve Moved Onchain” to elucidate this journey to everybody and right this moment’s opening publish is about running a blog, naturally.

I’ve blogged at AVC.com for a really very long time. I began out in September 2003 at avc.typepad.com however moved to avc.com just a few years later.

AVC.com has been my house for running a blog for over twenty years.

AVC.com has served me very properly over time nevertheless it lacks just a few issues that basically matter to me.

First, the posts are saved in a closed database hosted by me within the cloud.

Second, the companies that I take advantage of to create AVC.com are usually not “composable” that means that others can’t construct issues on prime of AVC.com and the companies that create and show the posts I create right here.

Third, the identities of the authors (me) and readers (you) right here at AVC.com are usually not tied to any type of transportable identification and repute system.

Whereas none of those points might look like an enormous deal to you, they’re enormous deal to me as I’ll clarify in a bit.

So when web3 running a blog companies began cropping up, I began to make use of them.

My first rodeo was at Mirror.xyz the place I stored avc.mirror.xyz for many of 2021, 2022, and 2023. This was my first publish at avc.mirror.xyz on March 18, 2021.

I actually wished to weblog at AVC.xyz and that turned an possibility for me in November 2023 after I joined Paragraph.xyz and wrote this Howdy World publish.

These web3 running a blog platforms retailer all of my posts onchain at Arweave. These posts can be found to anybody to learn no matter what running a blog platform I take advantage of. And if I get kidnapped by an alien and fail to pay my internet hosting service, they may nonetheless exist onchain. Ceaselessly. That’s an enormous deal to me.

They’re additionally composable web3 companies. Any developer can take what I create at AVC.xyz and construct on prime of it. That’s additionally an enormous deal to me. My accomplice Nick describes the composability profit so properly in his publish right this moment on USV.com.

And my identification and the identification of my readers are mapped to a web3 pockets deal with that authenticates who they’re, what they do onchain, and permits builders to create repute techniques on everybody. Given my combat with spam and trolls and jerks and assholes that largely drove me away from running a blog and commenting within the latter a part of the final decade, this final bit actually issues to me.

At the beginning of this yr, I took everybody who receives an e mail after I publish right here at AVC.com and imported that e mail checklist to Paragraph.xyz. So a number of the AVC readers have been getting emails of my posts at AVC.xyz this yr. Besides, I nonetheless get a ton of every day visitors right here at AVC.com and I’ve not posted something new right here since January 10, 2024.

I don’t plan to publish right here at AVC.com going ahead, however I’ll preserve the archive up and I’ll select to cross-post a factor or two right here every time I need to attain the broadest viewers.

My house for running a blog is and has been onchain for some time now and if you wish to observe my writing, please go go to avc.xyz and subscribe to obtain my weblog posts through e mail by clicking the inexperienced subscribe button on the higher proper.

However what about Mirror.xyz and avc.mirror.xyz? you may ask.

Properly, I’m additionally thrilled to have the ability to say that Mirror and Paragraph have merged and these two main web3 running a blog companies will now be one. And, as chances are you’ll know or suspect, USV has invested in each of them and now shall be a serious shareholder within the merged firm. I’m very enthusiastic about that. Right here is Paragraph’s weblog publish concerning the transaction and right here is Mirror’s.

The group that constructed Mirror.xyz is now turning their consideration to a brand new app referred to as Kiosk and so they blogged about that right this moment. So USV is now additionally an investor in that challenge.

During the last thirty years, our lives moved from offline to on-line. They’re now shifting onchain. That’s a beautiful factor and I hope you’ll be part of me in shifting onchain as properly.