selling hardware and premium services, including support - but since its foss you can build your own hardware and never pay them anything
Discussion
Couldn't a competitor just recreate what they offer, and keep the standards higher?
sure, i think that’s good for the user, start9 will have to remain competitive rather than lock users in to a shit product
its the harder path and most investors would not back that type of strategy but at Ten31 we are proud to support it
I like this model soo much. Because you'd think better quality products/services would come from it. Although, when a VC with access to cheap credit comes in and fucks it up, to simply make more money. It's not really scalable or sustainable is it?
we do not have access to cheap money, most of our investors measure their opportunity cost against bitcoin
just because most venture capital is filled with assholes does not make investment capital inherently bad
investment and profit is generally good for society, decades of cheap money has corrupted many but markets will correct back to sanity
Based
I love Start9 🤙
I don't. but it is good that it exists.
Any specific reason?
ok. I checked the website again. what version of bitcoin core is the default?
The latest version of Bitcoin Core available by default in the Start9 Marketplace for installation on a new Embassy device is 29.1.0.1.
https://marketplace.start9.com/bitcoind
Knots is also available on the community registry
the beauty of foss is that anyone is welcome to try and ultimately the user benefits from all efforts
You could argue that nostr:nprofile1qqsw5t3us9xs3gmclzjm37hvk2yy6pv9t96utjjttsj794hexc5x79qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dss73ylk is already doing that.
Isn't competition a beautiful thing?
Need to pick one up a nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll to compare with my nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct home
I think Redhat had such model. Free OS but paid support