101 sats \ 2 replies \ @newnym 29 Oct 2022 \ on: Why Is It So Difficult For Software Developers To Understand Bitcoin? bitcoin
You make a good point about bitcoin not being about technology.
This reminds me of a video of a lecture from an MIT computer science professor who was very anti bitcoin and blockchain in general. Twenty minutes into the presentation he makes this point about how bitcoin is oh so inefficient because there are thousands of copies of the entire blockchain around the world.
It dawn on me then that most tech people are so worried about optimizing things in a narrow sense that they completely ignore threats from "outside" of the tech sphere, like politics.
A lot of people in tech are too close to it to really understand. As I mentioned salaries are already high and people are used to following the rules and playing the game, so for the most part they have never 'needed' something like bitcoin.
The danger of a technocracy (government by technicians who are guided solely by the imperatives of this tech) is that we build the wrong technology. Arguably the challenges of the last two years have highlighted the dangers of this.
Regardless, an entire application layer will be getting built out in the coming decade upon Lightning and Bitcoin and most tech people have not really woken up to that yet. There is some huge opportunity for startups and new ventures in this space and I am actively looking for opportunities myself to become involved!
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Yes technical people building for the clowd (pun intended) are not solving the greatest problems. The best techies that actually have some pride in their creations will shun big tech's walled garden trash and build truly decentralized in the spirit of the original internet.
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