What is the spirit of the Web3 era? The term Web3 is believed to have been first used in 2014 by Gavin Wood, the founder of Polkadot and co-founder of Ethereum. In Gavin Wood's article "Less-techy: What is Web 3.0?", he outlines his thoughts on the spirit of Web3. The first sentence mentions Edward Snowden's revelations, which refer to the incident in June 2013 when Edward Snowden, a contractor for the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency), leaked classified documents related to the U.S. government's mass surveillance program. The revelations included shocking details about the PRISM program, where the NSA collaborated with major tech companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft to collect users' emails, chats, videos, and indiscriminately gather the call records of millions of Americans through telecommunications companies like Verizon, as well as eavesdropping on foreign leaders, including allied heads of state, and monitoring global internet traffic through undersea fiber optic cables. Gavin Wood's concept of Web 3.0, or the "post-Snowden web": Information considered public is made public. Information assumed to be consensual is placed on a consensus ledger. Information we assume to be private is kept secret and never disclosed. Communication always occurs through encrypted channels, using pseudonymous IDs only at endpoints. There are absolutely no traceable items (e.g., IP addresses). In short, we design the system to mathematically enforce previous assumptions because we cannot reasonably trust any government or organization. The post-Snowden web consists of four components: publishing static content (like images or code), dynamic messaging (real-time conversations or broadcasts), consensus engines, and integrated user interfaces. Each of these is designed to replace certain aspects of the web experience we currently take for granted, but in a completely decentralized and pseudonymous manner. Web2 relies on centralized trust, such as ICANN, Verizon, and Facebook, without addressing fundamental consensus, while Web3 operates on a mathematically guaranteed consensus system without needing to trust any single entity. Gavin Wood stated, 'The consensus engine will be used for posting and changing all trusted information. This will be achieved through a completely generalized global transaction processing system, and the first viable example of this will be the Ethereum project.' He mentioned the direction Ethereum would take at that time. The spirit of the Web3 era, as described by Gavin Wood, is privacy and minimal trust. It is about designing systems with encryption and mathematics so that we do not have to trust centralized companies or governments - although Gavin Wood has left the Ethereum Foundation, Ethereum continues to diligently research and develop without forgetting the initial intentions of Web3. Ethereum is for Privacy.