We got excited about Bitcoin all those years ago and thought it might be possible to use the same technology for services beyond electronic cash. The vision (for some) is web services that bypass a network or database administrator (the Government, Central Banks, Facebook) and prevent any sort of censorship, blocking, or cancelling.

Outlier Ventures and Midnight Foundation Launch PETs Accelerator to Advance Privacy Tech in Web3
As the internet evolves into a space where AI agents act on our behalf and data becomes the new fuel for autonomy, one question grows