“B*tcoin can’t be censored or stopped by governments”
Um, block port 8333 at ISP level? Packet sniff for Bitcoin RPC and block it? Shut off the Internet?
Or the old standby, directly or indirectly legislate it out of existence.
Elasticsearch I think is doing a good job of reminding all of us who build products: if you take a dependency you own it. Your customers do not care whether your dependency was authored by you, and as we have seen, open source can become closed leaving you holding the bag.
The number of people I’ve seen move differently once they see a W:
- Closing the first client
- Seeing the first wire
- Making the first sale
Start walking with their chest out more.
Texting with more caps.
Palpable energy shift.
The inception of a future savage.
STACK EM.