21 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 15 Nov 2023 freebie \ parent \ on: Taking a sabbatical from Bitcoin FOSS meta
Also interesting take
And you were using the past tense:
I think fixing some critical bugs in the early days was a necessary condition for social contributions to even start
With this I can somewhat agree, I guess.
If we wouldn't use and teach others how to use Bitcoin, all that code and software built were for nothing.
In all these 10+ years I onboarded hundreds of people and helped many merchants to start with Bitcoin.
As I said, each participant in the network have its own role. Without his coding, all these people will not be into Bitcoin. That's a fact. Only writing code for Bitcoin is NOT enough.
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Only writing code for Bitcoin is NOT enough.
Yes, I don't disagree. I just didn't see good arguments so far why social contributions should be more important than technical stuff like coding, reviewing, testing etc.
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It’s chicken or egg.
Goes back to base case for peer to peer electronic cash.
If people do not see the problem with fiat government money then it doesn’t matter how functional Bitcoin is.
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Maybe my point is this:
Technical contributions create an upper limit for adoption.
Social contributions fuel adoption, but only until this limit is reached.
Then we need upgrades again like channel factories, easier (and actual) lightning backups, some
OP_VAULT implementation for even more secure onchain funds, a lot of UX stuff ...reply
Sure. We cannot stop where we are right now. We have a long way to go with many things to improve the code and create more solutions.
So many things have to be built and used.
Quitting right now is not an option.
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