What is this all teaching us?
It's teaching us that it is important who the builders are and who finances them.
Discussion
We are the builders and the financiers
#bitcoiners
VC money spent on hired hands will get you corporate influencer stuff. That's what they know. That's what they build.
Foundation money influenced by a Germanic Bitcoin writer who wears a green suit will get you reliable, readable threads and incremental innovation, featuring long-form notes, with no KYC.
A personal project started to help a friend getting censored and cut off from funding opportunities will focus on personal freedom, information resilience, zaps, and stable funding models.
A rich braniac from MIT will build the client you'd expect, full of whizz-bangs and whoozas, and constantly pushing ahead with any feature he can think of.
A bunch of conservative, Western Christians living that middle class lifestyle and reading classic literature will be slowly, steadily building on something stable, academic, and family-friendly, that will appeal to people like themselves.
We have not yet covered every market. Find one that isn't covered and cover it.
You must front the effort because PoW requires work up front.
Just realized that my project team is building a Nostr platform like it's a cathedral. 😂
Happy to spend 5 months just laying gigantic, sprawling foundations and stone-masoning building blocks.
Whatcha building thar? 🧐
Oh, we have to finish building it, so that you can see how great it is. 🥰 Come back next year.
(When your time-preference is eternity...)
I do love cathedrals 😊