I’ve Moved Onchain – AVC – FortiGate

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

So I’m beginning a sequence known as “I’ve Moved Onchain” to elucidate this journey to everybody and in the present day’s opening put up 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 dwelling for running a blog for over twenty years.

AVC.com has served me very nicely through the years but it surely 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 aren’t “composable” which means that others can not construct issues on high 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 aren’t tied to any type of transportable id and status system.

Whereas none of those points might seem to be 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 put up 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 once I joined Paragraph.xyz and wrote this Hi there World put up.

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 are going to nonetheless exist onchain. Eternally. 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 high of it. That’s additionally an enormous deal to me. My accomplice Nick describes the composability profit so nicely in his put up in the present day on USV.com.

And my id and the id of my readers are mapped to a web3 pockets handle that authenticates who they’re, what they do onchain, and permits builders to create status methods 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 first of this yr, I took everybody who receives an electronic mail once I put up right here at AVC.com and imported that electronic mail record to Paragraph.xyz. So lots of the AVC readers have been getting emails of my posts at AVC.xyz this yr. Besides, I nonetheless get a ton of day by 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 put up right here at AVC.com going ahead, however I’ll maintain the archive up and I’ll select to cross-post a factor or two right here each time I need to attain the broadest viewers.

My dwelling 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 by way of electronic mail by clicking the inexperienced subscribe button on the higher proper.

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

Effectively, 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 it’s possible 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 put up in regards to the transaction and right here is Mirror’s.

The group that constructed Mirror.xyz is now turning their consideration to a brand new app known as Kiosk they usually blogged about that in the present day. So USV is now additionally an investor in that mission.

Over the past 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 a part of me in shifting onchain as nicely.