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 Exactly. A hobby network will not and cannot ever be adopted by the entire world. But a profitable ecosystem of network provision on top of a completely open protocol and a universal social graph you can take anywhere, will fucking destroy everything in it’s wake.

I love the way we are building & love the community ethos, but I’m here to change the fucking world. 🔥🫡 
 Linux enters the chat… 
 This post made me think of how Linus Torvalds and others made millions instead of billions and created a permanent commons critical infrastructure tool which anyone can use for free.  
 But also. Please teach me how to monetize skillz. I often sell myself cheaply.  
 Just raise your prices. It’ll be scary the first time and then you’ll realize that the market is less sensitive than you think. 😅 
 One of the challenges with a hyper capitalist economy is that most content / production on a money forward basis returns to its cost of marginal production, which is zero for ideas (and wind energy and solar energy, etc.).

How do you create a network that operates profitably if there is no defendable “moat?” 

This is why railroads are such a fascinating industry…the value of a single railroad from A-B can capture almost the entire value of the supply chain from A-B … a second railroad alongside A-B renders both almost totally worthless on a go-forward basis.

Technology (compute) has this challenge … expensive to develop upfront and then the profitability is tied to the marginal cost of production on a go forward basis (low). Same with pharmaceuticals, same with commodities, etc.

The Bit Block Boom relay I paid for went down recently … no idea why … 
 💯👏 
 Agree that most tech does asymptote to marginal cost but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t moats. 

My guess is that brand is going to be become the most important driver of business success. In a world starving of attention signal cutting through the noise is all that will matter. 
 Mais un écosystème bien détaillé surtout explicité pour tout nouveau nostriche ne venant pas de la Tech mais a des idées pour créer ou apporter des solutions (sur le plan social, économique, professionel: sociologiquement parlant tout ce qui peut être utile et aidant à tout quidam sans oublier les différents contextes socioculturels...et tous enjeux de survie de chaque espèce avec notre environnement commun. ..voire plus ailleurs sur d'autres planètes vivables pour toute espèce  
 Guy je serais intéressée d'avoir un aperçu de votre vision pour changer le Monde, et pourquoi pas faire comme sur votre note voire des questions ouvertes qui permettent de bien mûrir vos approches  
 💯💯

Me too. It’s like that old Marc Andreessen trope about software eating eating the world. 

Nostr will eat the world but we have to find the new business models to power it. 

Ads…
SaaS…
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