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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @nout 6 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
What is the product vision of Swarm? :)
A fully integrated node user experience for running Bitcoin L1, L2 (and future layers) that requires no technical experience to run or maintain.
This includes things like automatic channel (and liquidity) management, swapping funds between layers, managing multi-sig wallets with recovery potential and a lot more experience-enhancing features.
A Bitcoiner's node should be their preferred place to keep their funds, even if they're brand new. It's the most sovereign way to use the network, and we're making it much easier!
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What you describe is close to what I have envisaged is a tool that I would end up using one day.
Ultimately though it would also have stablecoin functionality such that I can opt to keep a portion of my wealth in
I have no idea if thats where you think you are going but it is what I think would be a useful tool for me.
How you make money from that I don't know though.
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That's really cool to hear you've been thinking of similar solutions! I certainly see stables playing a part over LN as we progress further (I think stables over LN could possibly be Bitcoin's mid-bear market rally catalyst, kind of like what happened with Defi last BM).
As with all products, it'll take iterations and time to reach that world we envisage, but there is no real reason it can't exist.
In terms of the business model— we're going to start cloud-hosted, so Bitcoiners will pay a server subscription (much like Voltage currently). This will allow us to fund a lot of the software development, but ultimately the software will be open-sourced and free. We will still offer cloud-hosted services and bolster revenue by providing services to the lightning network itself (I'll leave that intentionally vague)
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Interesting - is this a hardware or software-only play?
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It will begin life as a software play, there’s a long, long roadmap which will eventually bring us to full hardware/software integration (all of which will— in time, be open sourced)
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