Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has left many people in the bleeding-edge web development world scratching their heads, after announcing web5 – a project from his new venture TBD that intends to be a global web standard. One angle is to question what happened to web4? But, of course, skipping from web3 straight to web5 (web2 + web3 = web5) is little more than a marketing stunt that has done exactly as intended – to grab people’s attention. Digging a little deeper, we have to question what problem is this project actually trying to solve? Decentralized identity is the name of the game, for TBD, it seems. TBD itself is a division of Block, the company formerly known as Square,…