What bitcoin offers us is a nontraditional base unit, both in the network and asset, upon which we can expand ideas which were normally unchallenged, at least in the mainstream.
I didn’t go to any special STEM high school, so being in engineering school was my experience being completely surrounded by computer nerds.
Through interviewing a few Bitcoin thought leaders on my podcast such as Guy Swann and Taylor Pearson, my enthusiasm and understanding matured, and I began to buy more heavily toward the end of 2020.
It takes thinking about a new system to realize what hidden assumptions might be lurking in the existing system.
Web 2.0 profit was dictated by how long a company could seduce a user into using their platform and how much data they could gather about them.
It is my hope that Lightning Network micropayments can reinvent the business models for social media, mobile games, and entertainment platforms like YouTube and TikTok.
Let’s say $5 million per coin to keep it clean and assume we have some economic growth.