On yesterday's show, I opened with my thoughts on @CalvinAyre's announcement.
If you want to read it in whole, check it out:
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Calvin Ayre just gave away his BSV, and I think that's bullish.
On November 9, the Bodog founder and longtime backer of BSV, Calvin Ayre, announced that he has donated his BSV to the BSV Association and has launched the Ayre Think Tank, and I think it is the most bullish news this ecosystem has had since Teranode shipped.
Let's be clear about what this man paid to get us here.
Calvin put his own money behind restoring the original Bitcoin protocol when almost nobody else with real money would touch it, and he did it at tremendous personal and financial cost, through years of lawsuits, delistings and daily character assassination. But my view on it is that Calvin’s motivations were never only (and maybe even never largely) about who Satoshi is: I think was always mostly about the technology, and about making sure that a scalable, honest ledger exists for everyone to benefit from and to build on.
It’s up to us to build!
And the hate? Of course there was hate. Blockchains are tribal, but Calvin had seen this movie before in the early days of online gambling, which was every bit as toxic and every bit as tribal, and which left him with battle scars, thick skin and (by the way) a billion-dollar fortune.
Then there is the "Calvin controls BSV" crowd.
Calvin invested more money than anyone else in the BSV ecosystem. That affords him the control you would expect within his own companies, but little else. He has earned his influence, but he largely hears about what is happening in BSV the same way the rest of us do, and the same way he still hears about what is happening in the online gambling industry, which he retired from roughly 20 years ago.
He doesn’t control the independent development of a significant part of the ecosystem, nor the healthy distribution of hash power, but these sectors respect him anyways.
Which brings me to the trolls.
There are still anonymous accounts, and a few known figures, who spend every waking hour attacking Calvin, Craig, BSV, me and a few others! With the dedication of men who are on somebody's payroll. Why are they so concerned about what we are doing if BSV is "irrelevant"? What kind of grown man spends his entire life fixated on a "dead" coin unless he sees it as a threat?
These trolls aren’t screaming about the problems at Liquid Network or the nefarious parties we now know funded Blockstream and hijacked Bitcoin Core.
That's telling...
That is also a costly signal, and it plays out online every single day: after all the court cases, they still fear the technology. They can't stop it, so they use these tactics to slow adoption down, and it has worked so far, yes. But slowing a thing down is not stopping it.
Teranode is published for the public. The mantle has been passed to the builders. The entire focus now is building out the common, scalable infrastructure that applications need to succeed.
We will keep getting attacked, and we will not be deterred.
A man who already won his war just effectively gave his own stack over to the BSVA to separate himself from the project, and that is a costly signal too.
Why is it bullish? Because the tooling has never been better, and passing the torch to people who love bitcoin indicates that this phase of the work is done.
Now, it's time for the leadership of the new phase to rise up and carry the ball down the field!
@big_simp Yeah it was alright. A little laggy when it was first connecting on the video and voice matching but was perfect after the first couple of seconds.
I had a video conference last night on block chain. Didnt need a wallet or bsv but yet still registered on chain somewhere. Now imagine 10 yeard down the line some one says well you said this and this... i can pull up the convo and say nope listen back.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime
Give a man a bsv and he will profit for a day teach a man to use bsv and he will profit for a lifetime.
Ayre wants a lifetime not a day he wants the gold exchange not the gold.
@ChengCai47224@CalvinAyre Yes. People wont stop hating bsv until they are not here anymore. So give them what they want. Bsv isnt here but the companies that use the services of bsv are here and they will have an strategic advantage on the market. People who seek it will be rewarded by the best tech.
@CosmosStag@cryptorebel_SV I think its an investment. Hes giving something that can be very helpful to one organisation to help his other organisations provide the services for other.
@LightBSV Ofcourse but that doesnt stop other using it wrong. Im a big believer in making everything idiot proof. So when i use it right it impresses me what i have created. When i use it like how some of the customers have been it fails. But its slowly getting there 1 step forward 2 back
Calling all developers. How far can i really get on perfecing my app just with ai coding? Everytime a video does something weird i have to change the code rules slightly. Add to many rules its messes up more. Every mess up makes me feel a customer is lost. Any advice?
feeling cute.... so gonna try and put a million txts on chain tonight to see if my app can deal with the numbers of success. lol https://t.co/cIGaDNxKoa
CALLING ALL BSV BUSSINESSES!
Would you like your business protected from copyright infringement for free for life?
Would you like customers to promote your content and be payed for everytime its used?
Email [email protected]
I need you to make this work....
@MoreBigFish@collincto@Blockstream@Blockstream please do something!! We cat have this spam on the network!! Bitcoin is for blackrock and vanguard not for these plebs doing their silly little apps. Please stop this decentralized usage of the network! Arrrghhh