I'm NVK, CEO of Coinkite. AMA.
Hi everyone! I’m @nvk, Founder and CEO of Coinkite and fulltime shitposter. I learned about Bitcoin from the SlashDot release post. Coinkite is one of the oldest Bitcoin companies (renamed to CK on block 141,000). We make Bitcoin Security and Fun Devices, and focus on Bitcoiners.
You many know some of our products COLDCARD, BLOCKCLOCK, OPENDIME, SATSCARD, TAPSIGNER, SEEDPLATE, COLDPOWER and SATSCHIP (we love caps) and/or some of our websites projects like BitcoinTreasuries.net, BitcoinBinary.org, WalletsRecovery.org, Bitcoin.Holiday, BitcoinBounties.org and my newest thing the Bitcoin.Review Podcast.
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Very true. I have to admit that my first real exposure to value for value was fountain. My instinct was to hoard my sats, and I was uncomfortable paying for an episode, no matter how much I got out of it.
I know less than zero about bitcoin core development politics but what he said sounded reasonable on the surface. Like many charities, there can be a perversion of incentives over time and excessive funding without an explicit purpose in mind might create a "development industrial complex" where there is pressure to push updates for the sake of it. Extreme conservatism seems more prudent when there is now 1.3+ trillion at stake.
When bitcoiner dismiss things like other people dismiss bitcoin
But at least a small minority of people won't be able to freely print more of it and give it to themselves, their family, and their friends.
So, yeah, Bitcoin doesn't fix everything but it's still an improvement on the status quo
Even in economics, you can go a long way before encountering any serious treatment of money. In fact, you can easily go clear through the vast majority of PhD programs without ever discussing what money is. The only exceptions I know of are Chicago and George Mason.
Generally, money is just magically introduced as a unit of account into models that really don't have any monetary dynamics. Most econ programs will have electives on economic history or history of economic thought that get into serious discussions of money.
Exaggerated but the hype probably helps.
It looks like it's around ~8k daily actives: https://stats.nostr.band/