I’m sure the good folks at Apple remember how Kodak came up with the digital camera first and fought it because it didn’t fit their business model.

George Eastman was a pioneer in the camera industry and started Kodak in my home town of Rochester, NY.

As a kid in Rochester I learned about Kodak the same way one learns about Presidents and important history. The same is true for Danny Wegman who invented the world’s best grocery store, also in Rochester.

Even in my AP economics classes, most off the off the cuff examples were about Kodak. They employed thousands of people and had been a staple in Rochester since the late 1880s. The company’s fate was intertwined with the city’s.

The word Kodak was synonymous with taking pictures. Special moments were “Kodak Moments” and this wasn’t a flash in the pan either. Kodak adapted and flexed through the decades. Time and again they were on the front lines on technology and chose to lead.

But Kodak didn’t make their money from selling cameras. The company was profitable because they sold film so people could use their cameras. The only competition I’m aware of on this axis was Fuji.

But my memory here is skewed since using Fuji film where I lived was blasphemous.

Folks, wanting some input for the article I’m writing:

- if you had to summarize the “culture” of bitcoin the community, politically, what would it be

- Wherever you are in the world, is bitcoin a partisan issue and why (in your opinion)

- what is the biggest risk to widespread adoption, in terms of bitcoin’s social layer? Does the social layer (politics, culture, perception) matter to you, and why?

Thank you in advance 🙏🏻

“What #Nostr really is… is a decentralized web with Bitcoin built in at the base layer… It has massive implications… Nostr itself is a protocol level of technology… The change since [I joined] is staggering… It won’t just be a Twitter client; it will replace YouTube, GitHub… People early on in that network effect ride the wave of growth… That network effect can go on forever, and that value accrued goes to me forever, to users forever.”

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