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Everything is an ad network - by Antonio García Martínez

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How to pay for Web 3

If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change. -Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo The same year Thomas Caxton issued the first printed edition of The Canterbury Tales in 1476, he printed something else: an advertisement for the real moneymakers in the early printer’s catalog, a prayer book1. For as long as humans have crafted disembodied versions of their voices, whether it be Pompeiian graffiti or the latest tweet, there have been attempts to both guide user attention in some remunerative direction, and measure the effectiveness of that attention-gathering.…

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