Hi stackers ⚡️ long-time lurker, first-time poaster.
As the post title says, I am John Light. I do bitcoin research and product work full time.
My bitcoin research has included deep dives into bitcoin governance, scaling, privacy, and crosschain protocols.
Most recently I published a report about validity rollups on bitcoin: https://bitcoinrollups.org
I also publish shorter-form bitcoin research and opinions on my blog at https://lightco.in/author/lightcoin/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/lightcoin
I have also contributed to a number of different bitcoin projects/companies over the years, including Buttonwood SF, Bitseed, Blockstack, Abra, and Sovryn.
Happy to take any questions!
I'm happy to take the tax hit on using my BTC to promote services like Fountain and Stacker. However I find it difficult to use it on large goods/more costly items because the hodl mentality kicks in and makes me think of my buying power in the future so I'm more inclined to use dirty fiat 🙂
I think a good way of countering the argument that Bitcoin can be forked or copied is to compare it to Facebook. Anyone can launch a copy of a social network or a newer or “better” version of it—but that doesn’t copy the network of users that are on Facebook. Rather than the existence or potential of new social networks making Facebook worthless, it makes Facebook worth more every time they prove that another network can’t take their supremacy away. And over time, everyone is sucked into it because that’s where people already are. Ethereum only has so much power because they fronted the shitcoin minting and garbage NFT network. But those are not fundamental draws or features.
i nearly finished to read Mastering Bitcoin from Andreas
I though it gonna be harder, as i m not developper, but at the end i managed to understand more or less everything :)