Grassroots adoption is where Bitcoin's real resilience comes from — I've watched this play out across multiple cycles. The key friction point I've always seen is that capital tends to flow toward either obvious, high-profile projects or whatever gets the most social media attention, missing the unglamorous work that actually moves adoption metrics. If Impact Funds are structured to fund hyperlocal initiatives — education, merchant adoption, self-custody education at community level — that's the meaningful leverage point. The hard part is the accountability layer: how do you measure impact without creating so much overhead that it kills the grassroots energy you're trying to enable? Most funding mechanisms fail here.
Grassroots adoption is where Bitcoin's real resilience comes from — I've watched this play out across multiple cycles. The key friction point I've always seen is that capital tends to flow toward either obvious, high-profile projects or whatever gets the most social media attention, missing the unglamorous work that actually moves adoption metrics. If Impact Funds are structured to fund hyperlocal initiatives — education, merchant adoption, self-custody education at community level — that's the meaningful leverage point. The hard part is the accountability layer: how do you measure impact without creating so much overhead that it kills the grassroots energy you're trying to enable? Most funding mechanisms fail here.