Recently read great book "Inventing the internet", since I think Bitcoin will also dramatically change the world, and so I was hoping to get some inspiration for the Bitcoin world.
Here are some ideas for categories of products that I think might happen in the Bitcoin world: https://www.publish0x.com/crowphale/product-ideas-for-bitcoin-world-xppeegx
Would love to hear people thoughts. What other categories of products do you expect? Can you link examples of projects pursuing these ideas? (I know about many from the first category: removing the middleman, but not much from the other categories)
Things I want to see:
Please give me some feedback on this ideas!
Bitcoin NFTs:
Community Funding:
Intra-Layer Exchange (You labeled "SatoSwap")
Interop with stable coins seems to be gaining a lot of attention as some emerging markets are choosing them over Bitcoin. It's feels like the market is choosing stable coins for checking and bitcoin for saving.
I'm not sure how I feel about NFTs yet. The value is dependent a) on trusting the distributor and b) social consensus (some community valuing them). I think about them when I consider adding gamification badges to SN - ie when SN is decentralized, I need a registry for things like badges because badges don't seem like a great fit for a relay system.
I really like the idea of forking Signal. Harvesting all the work they're doing and creating Sphinx-like app would be awesome!
I finally got a ton of people on Signal so hoping that it’s possible to create a fork that supports Lightning and still can send/receive messages from the main app. Does anyone know whether that’s possible?
I’ve read that Signal servers won’t relay other clients so it’s not possible.
But I used Signal-cli which is Java client, essentially a fork, so I think it could work?
I'm not sure but if Signal has bots, maybe something like the lightning telegram bot can be built on Signal and then you don't need a fork.
I suspect Signal relays are open source too, so while you might not be able to use their relays, perhaps you can host your own.
I think Sphinx chat is sort of already that. Granted, they are trying to be everything (social media, patreon, marketplace, messaging) and their marketing is confusing because of that. But it is pretty cool that the messages themselves are sent through the lightning network (not just payments).
Wow. I just learned about Signal+MobileCoin. Thanks to your comment.
We definitely need Signal integration with Lightning.
If you want to predict the future, understanding history is perhaps the most important thing you can do.
Understanding the early internet, internet phases (so called web1 and web2), protocol and standards competitions (browser wars), the early PC and operating system wars will prove incredibly useful for people building and investing in the space.
History rhymes. One way to invent the future is to look for really clever rhymes.
Yep. Agree that Inventing internet is a great book on the topic, not just technical stuff but also all the forces that caused internet: very complex and hard to predict the outcome. Reminded me of Blocksize wars a bit, also fantastic book.
Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262511150
The Blocksize War: The battle over who controls Bitcoin’s protocol rules https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YQMC2WM
Love this, I'm building a lightning-based crowdfunding platform called Geyser. Launching soon - https://twitter.com/geyserfund
This is very insightful
Messaging might be solved by Impervious.ai team
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