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100 sats \ 6 replies \ @lightcoin 8h \ on: Technical vs social and economic dimensions of bitcoin development bitcoin
how can you say this when my blog post which you linked to in your post does just that?
I am actually a bitcoin product manager who talks to users and potential users of bitcoin regularly as part of my job, and I have been building bitcoin products for over a decade, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that bitcoin's technical limitations are holding back adoption.
My blog post which you read gave citations for alts with hundreds of thousands of "wrapped BTC" being used there. I personally know people who use "privacy coins" because they aren't satisfied with bitcoin or Lightning privacy. This "no use case" trope is flat out wrong.
That's fine, you can focus your attention where you want. Nobody needs to be involved or an expert in every aspect of bitcoin. Just stay out of the way of people who choose to focus on improving the tech, unless you have good reason to believe they're actively harming bitcoin.
I have been building bitcoin products for over a decade
just because you build solutions, it doesn't mean you understand what users need / want or even that are good for Bitcoin itself.
Maybe you are just building stuff you wanted for you and that is perfectly fine.
I was also a product manager for a big software company some years ago. They were pushing me to promote a solution even to those that they didn't even have to use, just for the sake of selling the product.... so I quit. I could not lie to the people.
I personally know people who use "privacy coins" because they aren't satisfied with bitcoin or Lightning privacy.
That's because they never have the patience to study more Bitcoin and specifically LN.... did you tried to explain that to them?
Just stay out of the way of people who choose to focus on improving the tech
WRONG. A reminder: without these "clueless users" your "improvements" are totally useless, nobody will use them. So their feedback is CRUCIAL.
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The changes I push for in the products I work on are entirely customer/user-driven. An idea might start from an insight I have based on my own experience but to invest commercial resources I take additional steps to validate sufficient market demand, which mainly involves a lot of talking to existing or potential users, among other forms of market research and validation techniques.
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Yeah but this statement
Just stay out of the way of people who choose to focus on improving the tech
sounds like that meme - "I am the expert and I am here to fix Bitcoin..."
Anyways, in the end any "improving the tech" reside on this...
So let's see where it goes.
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I think we're talking about two different things... one is about "bitcoin users", who I will gladly listen to feedback from everyone, especially if they are using or could benefit from a product I have built. The other is about "bitcoin activists" and what they choose to focus on. People who want to be "bitcoin adoption" activists and focus on that are great, they are needed. But we shouldn't focus only on that, to the exclusion of continuing to improve bitcoin tech to make bitcoin better money. That is the point I was trying to make there.
So let's see where it goes.
indeed
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In Bitcoin world, everybody is an activist... because each one of us have its own agenda.
My open agenda is: fuck the govs and the banks.
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I am not yet at the point of actively wanting to stop covenants. I am still trying to understand. I'm just conveying that where I stand, the risks seem to outweigh the benefits.
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