My thought is that web3 is a overloaded term meaning different things to different people, even the experts do not fully agree on what it is and crypto has hijacked it too.
Whatever Safe will be rebranded to it will be the equivalent to safe1 (my opinion 
). Being so much more than just a replacement for âwebâ, or âstorageâ, or communications, etc.
Hello Gang, Greetings!
Quick question⌠I see some messages on this forum that there is new safe coin that will be launched. I am wondering what that means for folks who hold the old classic maidsafe coin? Is there any action required to convert to the new coins?
Thanks in advance!
If you are holding then no change. You will get the 1:1 exchange to the network token. eMAID is a ERC20 coin for those wanting to do trading
Oh got it. Thanks for clarifying!
Should the price of MAID and EMAID be different? I see 10% difference in live prices on coinmarketcapâŚ
MAID is barely traded and only on exchange that isnât reliable and high w/d fees. Doesnât take much to drive price up or down there.
In my opinion the true value is what eMAID is trading for
The price differential makes little difference as arbitrage is extremely inconvenient. Its down to the market conditions on the day on each exchange and ~10% differential is to be expected.
At the end of the day as @neo says both MAID and eMAID will be exchangeable 1:1 for the actual network token SNT. @mav is working hard to develop a smooth secure automated process for the exchange of MAID and eMAID to SNT â Though it will NOT be known as SNT after network launch, the actual token ticker name is being kept under wraps until the big day to prevent the name from being hijacked.
If you are hodling as 99% of folks are then you dont need to do anything.
Has anyone performed the calculations for what SNT would be valued at if it hypothetically took over a major portion of the crypto market? Letâs be real - is there really any purpose for doge, filecoin, internet computer, ripple, and most other crypto 5 years post launch??? Disclaimer: This is just a personal thought experimentâŚ
Yes. We should rebrand to web 4.0 
Pretty sure Ripple is the chosen one.
If yourâŚ
Implementing a scalable, secure, and sustainable Central Bank Digital Currency that meets the high security standards of Central Banks
So you want to limit perceptions of safe to web access. Safe actually is returning to multiple access protocols but in a more singular form where storage, web, mail, etc is all just a XOR address away (and names when name resolution occurs)
Web x.y in terms of Safe diverse access has gone up its own backside as far as I am concerned.
In other words Safe is now applications accessing the network which was what the original network was intended to do and the web concept developed so long ago was meant to just be one of the many ways to use the internet, and while its still possible using the other protocols, it is extremely underutilised.
So rather than limit Safe to what was only ever meant to be a useful addon to accessing the information on the internet, lets make it clear Safe is so much more than just web.
My opinions of course and from one around when the network was mainframes networking to each other and only a small few too.
I made this comparison for price analysis as most in traders are going to make this comparison (turtles all the way down for sure), but until Safe proves to the mass of crypto-traders that itâs more than decentralized storage (which may take a couple of years), then this is going to be the obvious comparison.
Web 
Personally i think it is an absolute joyous miracle not only that the company survived financially but also that you had the strength and tenacity to keep the dream alive.
So perhaps âinternet 0â or âthe internet as it was always meant to beââŚ
Great minds think alike. You found the infinty emoji before me though 
If we want to come up with ideas about how to overcome some of these loaded modern words like web / internet, and perhaps tap in to some alternative histories that didnât quite happen, reignite some lingering hopes and whatnot, maybe we need to go back and read some of the stuff from that period.
Iâve been browsing http://www.textfiles.com/ a bit when I want some interesting textual history recently. Theyâve a whole page on the âinternetâ, with loads of stuff from the 80s and 90s T E X T F I L E S
To give one example, thereâs a series of text files called âThe Big Dummies Guide To The Internet Vol. 2â, and the following link is the first chapter, âSetting up and Jacking inâ. Written in 1994. I think the author is âNancy Ammermanâ from Princeton, if Iâm understanding correctly. Anyway, here it is for the curious:
http://www.textfiles.com/internet/bd_ch1.txt
The Net is more than just a technological marvel. It is human communication at its most fundamental level. The pace may be a little quicker when the messages race around the world in a few seconds, but itâs not much different from a large and interesting party. Youâll see things in cyberspace that will make you laugh; youâll see things that will anger you. Youâll read silly little snippets and new ideas that make you think. Youâll make new friends and meet people you wish would just go away.
Also, excuse me now, but whilte weâre at it, you can access a rebuild of the original WorldWideWeb application written by Tim Berners Lee here 
But yet it still deeply rooted in Web technologies (WASM, browsers, URLs, DNS).
Fiat is an abacus, to measure SAFE youâll need a scientific calculatorâŚ
Back in 2013, when the maidasafe ICO came out, I read from Irvine that the problem with the Internet was the servers.
With that I said to myself I fully agree with Irvine, this is the truth, and I threw myself without delay to the project until today of which I feel fully satisfied and have not been tempted or succumb to the stumbling blocks of these years.
With this I want to give all the relevance to the fact that we are building the decentralized Internet that should have been and wasnât
DECENTRALIZATION is the key and the objective.
ATOMIC INTERNET.
A month ago I would have voted for kilo-sized gold bars, but now a bitcoin is worth more, so I vote for bitcoin.