There is no shortage of visionary scenarios about how Web3 might unfold, but one of the latest, “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul” — a paper published in mid-May by E. Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver and Vitalik Buterin — is close to becoming one of the top 50 most downloaded papers on the SSRN scholarly research platform. The attention, one might suspect, has much to do with the participation of Buterin, blockchain’s wunderkind and the legendary co-founder of the Ethereum network. But it could also be a function of the paper’s ambition and scope, which includes asking questions like: What sort …

Cointelegraph speaks to Canadian Bitcoiner Kyle Kemper about the Social Wallet, a nonprofit that hopes to digitize every aspect of a physical wallet, money, services, and identity. Friendly finance Kyle Kemper: Since this started, so many people have chipped in here and there. Brooks Hunter has been doing videos for 15 years, and was behind that Vimeo video. My friend Paget is a genius creative advertiser, and created the “Turn IOU's into I<3U's" idea along with “friendly finance”. Judd Weiss, John McAfee's VP choice, is a brilliant sales and communicator, and him and I talked for hours in Bel Aire …

Cointelegraph speaks to Canadian Bitcoiner Kyle Kemper about The Social Wallet, a nonprofit that hopes to digitize every aspect of a physical wallet, money, services, and identity. This is the first part in a series of three articles on the Social Wallet. Social Wallet is a tremendous undertaking by its creator, Kyle Kemper, to bring Bitcoin to the masses and create a revolution in both the developing and developed worlds in terms of finance, identity, and information. The project launched on the 4th April and is seeking $21,000,000 in donations to complete the project. The project is only 10 weeks …