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I guess my beef with the whole web3 discussion is that everyone is bashing all the centralized bandaids is indicative that web3 is fake without acknowledging that those things are bandaids "until it's really ready". These bandaids (infura and the like) are mostly only necessary for mobile users who can't run a full chain. And even then there are legit solutions like Status.im as well as lots of research into lite-clients.

The "right" way to use something like Ethereum or IPFS is to download geth and go-ipfs and run the nodes yourself. You can do it on a modern laptop or a raspberry pi easily.

Then you can point Metamask at `localhost` and be using your own pristine connection to the networks.

Or you don't even need to use Metamask and can just issue commands directly in the console or you can download a local copy of of the static files for MyEtherWallet or whatever it's called these days and just double click on an HTML file and connect to your local node.

Then once you've done that, stop wasting money on buying pointless centralized NFTs.



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