To me, my friend > Exxon, but my trading partners should not matter to you either. It's just an example.
The problem with focusing on existing businesses is that they need to get customers: Exxon may be an important trading partner for you, but do you carry the same importance to them? You're not their peer.
Therefore if you want to make it worth Exxon's time & money to accept Bitcoin, you need to make sure that there are more customers for them that want to pay in Bitcoin than just you. Since Bitcoin is permissionless and optional, making it a mandatory MoE like the failed move in .sv is detrimental. It directly negates Bitcoin's strengths to lobby politicians and governments, and to some extent, big businesses: they aren't your peers. If Bitcoin is to not be government controlled money, adoption must be bottom-up, not top-down, and therefore starting with the low hanging fruit will have the most impact in the long run.
The future is still p2p, but if you really want that, you have to change the world one habit at a time.
To me, my friend > Exxon, but my trading partners should not matter to you either. It's just an example.
The problem with focusing on existing businesses is that they need to get customers: Exxon may be an important trading partner for you, but do you carry the same importance to them? You're not their
peer.Therefore if you want to make it worth Exxon's time & money to accept Bitcoin, you need to make sure that there are more customers for them that want to pay in Bitcoin than just you. Since Bitcoin is permissionless and optional, making it a mandatory MoE like the failed move in
.svis detrimental. It directly negates Bitcoin's strengths to lobby politicians and governments, and to some extent, big businesses: they aren't yourpeers. If Bitcoin is to not be government controlled money, adoption must be bottom-up, not top-down, and therefore starting with the low hanging fruit will have the most impact in the long run.The future is still p2p, but if you really want that, you have to change the world one habit at a time.
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