IPv4 came before IPv6…you pick up on things quickly :) > On Jun 19, 2015, at 5:48 AM, Marcel Jamin <mar...@jamin.net> wrote: > > > At the risk of stating cliches, the Mac came before the Windows PC…Yahoo! > > came before Google…MySpace came before Facebook… > > And TCP/IP came before... oh wait... > > 2015-06-19 14:02 GMT+02:00 Eric Lombrozo <elombr...@gmail.com > <mailto:elombr...@gmail.com>>: > >> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:45 AM, Dr Adam Back <a...@cypherspace.org >> <mailto:a...@cypherspace.org>> wrote: >> >> That wont be good for the companies either, but they may not see that >> until they've killed it, many companies operate on a1 or 2 year >> time-horizon. They may say screw layer2, I have a runway and I need >> micropayments to the wazoo and I dont have the dev resources for that. > > Exactly, Adam. > > Except, I think the genie is out of the bottle - these ideas are too powerful > for them to be killed forever. They will probably survive even if this > scenario comes to pass…but in a different network under a different name…and > Bitcoin will be relegated to the history books and walls of museums. > > Most of the potential brainpower available on this Earth to make serious, > profound contributions to this movement haven’t even begun to touch it. Just > because you happen to run a Bitcoin startup right now…even if you’ve received > millions of dollars in funding…don’t think that the whole world has low > standards and is lazy! Someone WILL eventually build something better than we > can presently imagine. > > First mover advantage and the network effect are vastly overrated. At the > risk of stating cliches, the Mac came before the Windows PC…Yahoo! came > before Google…MySpace came before Facebook…Bitcoin came before <we don’t know > yet>. > > > - Eric Lombrozo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development> > >
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