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I would agree with your sentiment, except that currently the Bitcoin and especially the Lightning ecosystem are too small, and there just are not enough actual users yet.
I say this as THE person who was analyzing the payment data at the single largest crypto commerce website in the world: Bitrefill.com. I know the crypto payment landscape better than most.
You cannot build a business that scales beyond the relatively tiny ecosystem that is Bitcoin MoE users.
We will be some of the very first to adopt Stablecoins over Lightning, but there are literally zero customers on that currently. So we will be devoting our development time and resources on something that has zero customers. Prudent businesses build towards existing and capturable customers.
We're not out there pumping shitcoins. We simply accept them and cash them out as necessary to fund our operations.
It's not one person. It's a vocal minority. But yes, 99% of the time we ignore and keep building. I still feel though that speaking about bad culture is a good thing.
Agree on all counts. Pressure Bitcoin adoption when one calculates that such pressure could result in something good for Bitcoin.
I feel that in some cases, the pressure is applied incorrectly and ends up hurting Bitcoin instead.
For example, when I wanted to make a post about PPQ in the Bitcoin Reddit, the mod refused to post because PPQ wasn't "Bitcoin only". However, when my Altcoin competitors want to post in a whole bunch of cryptocurrency reddits, they get huge encouragement and approval from those subreddits, gaining hundreds of real customers.
So I'm the good guy being "Bitcoin first" and yet it's never good enough for the some in Bitcoin community. Meanwhile, my competitors run laps around me in a marketing sense because the other communities are not as gated. Furthermore, those communities don't like the arrogance of some in the Bitcoin community and paint me that way as well, rejecting my posts in those subreddits as well.
This actually happened to me. I couldn't post in the /r/bitcoin reddit, nor could I post in the /r/cryptocurrency reddit. Hilarious self-own by Bitcoin purists.
I would love it if one day I could move to a community where Bitcoin was the only thing that was accepted and that our little ecosystem could proliferate throughout the world. But that just hasn't materialized yet and thus it's not time for that yet. If you want to build a business that scales and becomes truly impactful, you have to cater to the existing audience of non-bitcoiners while still incentivizing Bitcoin.
"I think the biggest problem is that there aren't enough people actively using bitcoin to make any bitcoin-only business economically self sustaining"
Correct!
"I think the best path to bitcoin adoption is to focus on product first and bitcoin second."
Correct!
Darth when I launched two years ago you came to my launch post and shit on it because "AI is bad" or something similar.
You can't conceive that you might be wrong sometimes.
It was not this post in particular that triggered me, but his general posts over time, as well as the general attitude of a lot of certain Bitcoin Maxis that I've had to deal with over the last two years while trying to run my business.
There are actually a class of Bitcoiners who will refuse to use my service because it's not Bitcoin only. That's fine. Everyone can make their own decisions. But the argument that I'm trying to make about that attitude is that it is suicidal and only hurts Bitcoin in the end.
Some bitcoiners are relentless in their pursuit of purity, both in terms of Bitcoin and in privacy and technology, etc. They demand that I adopt every single new Bitcoin or privacy tech under the sun, and they get so distracted by this ideological perfectionism that they lose sight of the fact that the whole point of this is to make a good product and to solve real problems for real people.
I could have spent 90% percent of my time perfecting a Bitcoin‑only, privacy-perfect approach, but then I wouldn't be able to spend any time keeping up with all the latest and greatest AI developments that roll out daily.
Why did I post it from my company handle? Well, it's the only handle that I have on Nostr. Secondly, I actually believe in these arguments, and I want my company to wear this belief on its shoulder and lead by example.
Whoa, shots fired haha. I like to place nice and I appreciate his contributions to Bitcoin education over the years!
Hi Tony, I'm the founder of PPQ.AI. Can we talk about bringing this to PPQ? I DM'ed you on twitter as well.
Awesome thank you. With the ChatGPT imports, one little bug is that we aren't importing the images you made over on ChatGPT. Just the text. Hopefully that isn't too much of a bother. Let us know how it works for you otherwise the feedback will be important.
Let us know any other feedback you may have. We want to get to the point where people are actually dropping their subs for us.
We just shipped import conversation. Right now it only can do all conversations at once. We are coming out with a "sharing" feature that will allow you to export/import just one conversation though.
Hey guys, creator of PPQ.AI here. Any way we can bring Jamie as a model to PPQ? Please reach out to me tg: mattius459
I visited Vic Falls a couple years ago and can't wait to return at some point. I will connect with my fellow Bitcoiners when I do.
Did you just link me to a youtube video? A fiat business? Why are you encouraging fiat businesses? What kind of bootlicking slave stooge are you?