Experience of a non-technical Bitcoiner joining Legends of Lightning⚡️Tournament
2073 sats \ 5 comments \ @juan 12 Oct 2022 bitcoin
Image Credit: The Little HODLer by Lina Seiche
Hi All,
Just wanted to send a quick update on the last few days gearing up for the event and be able to encourage more non-technical Bitcoiners to get involved in the Legends of Lightning⚡️Tournament.
I don't know how to code but I sure am extremely passionate about Bitcoin and think of many ways to continue help with adoption.
Last week while scrolling through Twitter I came across Brad's tweet about a problem he was facing, asking if anyone was going to build a solution for it, I immediately started writing down some notes on how I would personally go about it.
https://imagedelivery.net/wyrwp3c-j0gDDUWgnE7lig/89806505-14ce-44fc-4276-b7d76ab81e00/public
I had always been wanting to build something on Bitcoin to help with adoption but obviously not being a developer made it a bit more difficult. Luckily I noticed that Bolt 🔩 Fun was hosting this event and saw that they encouraged solo participants to enroll and find a team along the way, so this was the perfect opportunity for me.
I was able to assemble a team for my project within a few days with the following strategy:
The team at Bolt 🔩 Fun was also able to tweet about the project and it got the attention of some amazing people who I will now be working closely with to build our Lightsats⚡️ project.
I'm all ready to take on this new challenge with awesome teammates and look forward to meeting other participants, and being able to contribute to other projects with ideas, feedback, and much more!
Btw - Shout out✌🏼to Roland and René, Moritz & Diana from the Alby team!
#buildinginpublic #LegendsofLightningTournament
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @faithandcredit 12 Oct 2022
Its a cool idea, and its something everyone can do, but its also not very effective. What is needed is products and services that are in demand that people need bitcoin to get. Then they will automatically start getting bitcoin. Silk road is still the best example that comes to mind. Regardless of your opinion on the items that was sold, it was a legit driver of Bitcoin adoption while it lasted. The next big thing doesent have to be an online black market, it can be anything, i dont know what else to say.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @vindard 12 Oct 2022 freebie
And how do you find that "next big thing" if folks don't try new things and build?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @juan OP 17 Oct 2022
Thanks for the backup here✌🏼 I completely agree with you, if non of us try different things we will never know what will work.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @juan OP 13 Oct 2022
It may not be effective but it is a something that makes an effort to achieve a common goal that we all have and that’s more bitcoin adoption.
There still is a huge gap in education and removing barriers to entry for new users to come in, understand bitcoin, it’s usability and have real world scenarios to experience so it makes the connection even grater.
Silk road is a great example of creating user adoption, like you said regardless of the types of products they sold on the site but it did help tremendously with adoption then. Obviously that only catered to a certain set of people and not the masses so what we need is different approaches that trying to find different angles where we can tackle the same problem and even if we make a small impact it will compound as we go along.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 12 Oct 2022
Sounds like you are on track to realizing your dream of building something to aid in the adoption of Bitcoin. I'm also playing with the idea to start a non-profit organization focusing on teaching people in my community about Bitcoin and how they can earn and spend Bitcoin with platforms like SN and Carrot. It won't happen overnight becuase of work but the idea has been planted.
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