{"id":17343,"date":"2022-01-12T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/01\/12\/web-3-0-a-decentralized-internet-that-could-be-based-on-blockchain-technology\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:00:07","slug":"web-3-0-a-decentralized-internet-that-could-be-based-on-blockchain-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/01\/12\/web-3-0-a-decentralized-internet-that-could-be-based-on-blockchain-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Web 3.0 \u2014 A decentralized internet that could be based on blockchain technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__items list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> News <\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> FP Finance <\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> FP Economy <\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> Cryptocurrency <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\"> Episode 133 of Down to Business podcast <\/p>\n<figure class=\"featured-image\"><picture class=\"featured-image__ratio\"><\/picture><figcaption class=\"featured-image__caption image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Blockchain could have profound implications for how the internet works.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Getty Images<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>This week\u2019s Down to Business focuses on Web 3.0 or a new idea for a decentralized internet that many people think will be based on blockchain \u2014 the technology that enables bitcoin and holds vast potential to do much more.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>The first guest, Lex Sokolin, head economist for Consensys, a blockchain software technology company in New York, said corporations are still only just figuring out the potential applications of blockchain technology, but its use is already growing more quickly than anyone could have predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The second guest, Victoria Lemieux, an associate professor at the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, where she co-founded the blockchain research cluster, said that at a basic level, blockchain is a record-keeping technology.<\/p>\n<p>Both guests said that blockchain could have profound implications for how the internet works, particularly the attention economy \u2014 or the way some of the largest tech companies have commoditized human attention by collecting and selling data and ads.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/>Web 3.0 \u2014 A decentralized internet that could be based on blockchain technology<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2022-01-12 12:00:07<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links News FP Finance FP Economy Cryptocurrency Episode 133 of Down to Business podcast Blockchain could have profound implications for how the internet works. Photo by Getty Images&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/blockchain-0111.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/17344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}