0 sats \ 3 replies \ @benthecarman 12 Jun 2023 \ on: My trust is going to 0% on companies bitcoin
I have faith in strike and lots of different bitcoin companies.
If bitcoin is going to succeed then there will have to be companies that build things using it. I agree that adoption should come from grassroots movements but lots of companies are founded this way. Strike was founded by Jack Mallers who was a well respected open source dev in the community for years until we later went and built strike with a team of engineers he had met in FOSS.
Big company gets corrupted @benthecarman, it's the history that tells this, not me.
Anyway I hope you're right, but Mallers it's just a person like anybody else, give him a lot of fiat and he will obey.
Just the fact that Strike is basically a service that converts to fiat for payment implies that they will have to obey to compliance rules. Not good at all imo.
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Yes, but this will be something normies want and I'd rather him build it than Brian Armstrong
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I think that's fine. We need to try everything and see what sticks. Bitcoin becomes stronger as businesses try stuff and either succeed or fail.
Would much rather see we explore a bunch of avenues than pigeonhole ourselves and don't dig for new possibilities. Maybe one day an automated, free version of strike will somehow be created
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