My background is point of sale, and I realized when bitcoin became legal tender in El Salvador, I could help with the transition from a dollar to a bitcoin standard there. In doing this, I built a product that can also be used in retail and b2b sales here in the states, while also orange-pilling merchants through a fully integrated business management and point of sale system that takes credit cards and bitcoin with full reporting on all payment methods. Restaurant staff can carry the app on their own devices and integrate with the main system - no more waiting for a manager who may or may not know how to work a wallet, or the cook with their bitcoin wallet to come to the table to present a QR code. Yes, both of these types of interactions have happened to me when trying to pay at a business that 'took' bitcoin. AlpacaRMS fixes this problem.

Working on bitcoin is an opportunity to advance money as we know it, and that's exciting.

I think Bitcoin as a protocol is the future of money. I love that it is by nature international and permissionless. Just like sending an email. This literally opens up the world as a single economy.

I think the best way we can help make this happen is to build with Bitcoin.

The purpose is to provide Bitcoin users with fast access to loans without needing to trade their bitcoins.

I have a background in building products and companies in FinTech and Legal Tech. I also have a bitcoin problem. More efficient to combine my bitcoin habit into my working hours, frees up a lot of space for activities.

I (Thibaud) have been earning 100% in bitcoin for almost 2 years now. That comes with a few challenges. Being a freelancer in bitcoin is awesome. That being said, finding various companies offering regular part-time gigs is hard. Invoicing clients can be time-consuming as you often bill in USD and get paid in BTC. On the flip side, if you are a bitcoin business looking for part-time talent, it's the jungle out there. Check out Upwork... lots of "crypto or blockchain" devs but bitcoin is nowhere to be seen. We experienced these two realizations and thought that we could improve on that. Also it would be awesome to allow more people to work on bitcoin part-time but who are not ready or willing to commit to it full yet as of yet.

I got tired of using my talents writing code for projects that I am not proud of. By building on Bitcoin I get to scratch an ideological itch and hopefully do my part to bring us closer to life on a Bitcoin Standard. If not me, then who energy.

Bitcoin is simply the best money that exists. But I really got here through the completely unrelated avenue of wanting a censorship-resistant social media. The fact that the only protocol really living up to the promise was the one created by bitcoiners just demonstrates how focused bitcoiners are on real solutions rather than hype.

Sound Money can fix the world.

But, people have to be able to hold onto their sound money safely :)

fix the money, fix the world. fiat is broken and we wanna play out part in fixing it, one meme at a time.

Hope! Hope for a better world on the other side of the crumbling Fiat empire. But a less hyperbolic answer: realizing that the process of achieving hyperbitcoinization will require many more new Bitcoiners to be educated in a more accessible, friendly, and less daunting way. And at a faster rate too! Usually, the process of orange-pilling yourself or others can take many years, at least it has done historically. Bitcoin education has come a long way, but it's still not quite there when you consider an Apple-like "it just works" experience. Jippi is positioned pretty well to craft some magical experiences tailored toward the average person.