'Build thinkers, not followers'... I find this sign off ins…
'Build thinkers, not followers'...
I find this sign off inspiring (and infuriating)
My natural instinct is to fight back, as it happens against anything, everything and everyone
This sign off and @fiatbroke have curiously inspired me to think about building a new business and take up the challenge
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@fiatbroke I don't consider my words a "fight back" against the questions posed by you... I essentially give answers and make considerations based on my (certainly always too little) knowledge... Seasoned with my basic ideas on how things have gone since 2018... and I can say that I gave up the profits I would have made with my BTC ETH and other Crypto that I had owned since 2012, convinced by the goodness of BSV... I explained the story to relatives and friends, some listened to me, many No... I led these people to invest thousands of Euros... Effectively financing the structural development of the project... Losing not only other profits (fully accepted) but losing purchasing power by over 90% in 6 years... Thank God the best of my existence having experiences on a spiritual and dreamlike level has allowed me another type of wealth and satisfaction... For the rest I am still here channeling my attention and energy on a platform based on BSV technology, recording thousands of transactions on the Blockchain... There is who owns billions of $ and millions of BTC BCH and BSV... You can't blame the poor Christs here for the commercial failure of BSV...
That means a great deal, more than you know. That's the whole reason I write — not to tear down, but to get us thinking and building. Whatever you make, I'm rooting for it. Go well.
One honest word, because you inspired me too and I'd be a poor person not to say it.
Build, by all means — building is always good, and the technology genuinely is good, I've never said otherwise. But go in with your eyes open about one thing: building does not move the price.
I say that from experience, not theory. I've built apps that use BSV — timestamping, audit trails, minting, all written to the blockchain, all working. And none of it shifted the price a penny. If I minted a thousand things a day, it wouldn't. Because using the chain for data isn't the same as people needing the coin as money.
So build because the tech serves what you're making, and because you enjoy it. That's a great reason. Just don't build expecting it to pump the bag, because that's the disappointment that's broken a lot of good people. Build for the thing itself, not the price. Then whatever happens to the price, you've still made something real.
Go well — and I mean it, I'm rooting for whatever you make.
Build thinkers, not followers.