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Rather than trying to person radical that they privation bitcoin, investors are looking for products that usage Bitcoin to conscionable radical wherever they are.
This is simply a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Alyse Killeen to speech astir what is happening successful the VC abstraction successful narration to Bitcoin and what hidden gems are ripe for concern close now.
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Alyse Killeen: I'm funny with truthful overmuch going on, however you each deliberation astir the important things to wage attraction to successful the innovation space. We talked a small spot astir Swan's acquisition, which is breathtaking due to the fact that it's a institution that has maintained specified a committedness to their community, truthful I’m excited to spot them grow.
We talked astir Taro and what that does for adoption. I wonderment however you each deliberation astir it. So from Stillmark's perspective, conscionable to pb with an reply here, from Stillmark's perspective, what we similar to bash is look astatine wherever the protocols are going and past to expect what that means for entrepreneurs and infrastructure and apps.
I gave the illustration of talking astir seeing Segwit activate successful 2017, and knowing what that meant for Lightning Network oregon for entrepreneurship and innovation successful absent infrastructure that would beryllium built connected apical of Lightning Network. So we spot it successful that benignant of progressive buildup, but I'm funny from your perspective, however things emergence to the apical of your database successful presumption of what's important and exciting.
P: Man, that is simply a fantastic question. I'll springiness my thoughts and I'd emotion to perceive Q’s arsenic well. I think, arsenic I mentioned earlier, 1 of the astir important challenges that we look successful the Bitcoin abstraction is the UX problem. How tin we summation the mean person's quality to follow bitcoin?
In the U.S., we person a level of fiscal privilege, fixed that we beryllium wrong the state that is presently the world's reserve currency, but successful truthful galore different places that is not the case. I deliberation technologies similar Fedimint and things that marque it casual for radical who aren't funny successful bitcoin for the wide reasons that we each are, to follow it and instantly spot those positives — radical that are operating successful oppressive fiscal regimes, radical that are trying to fig retired however they tin support and persist the worth that they've earned implicit clip and abstraction due to the fact that they person real, lived acquisition of their governments confiscating that wealth. I deliberation those are the astir absorbing technologies to me.
Second, I would accidental technologies that let america to much efficaciously sphere our fiscal privateness and state successful developed countries. We've been talking a batch astir CBDCs (central slope integer currencies). We talked yesterday with Natalie Smolinski, who's gonna beryllium testifying successful a legislature proceeding time astir however CBDCs are a income funnel for Satan.
I deliberation technologies that let the mean idiosyncratic — who isn't by default fixated connected fiscal privateness — technologies that let them to follow that truly easy and natively are gonna go much and much important arsenic the challenges that we look successful the satellite proceed to vigor up.
Those are the things that are astir absorbing to me.
Killeen: So P, I was conscionable going to accidental that we spot things likewise here, and what 1 of the things that Stillmark does is look astatine however the exertion tin beryllium utilized to conscionable radical wherever they are successful presumption of some adopting BTC, the asset, and Bitcoin, the protocol.
So I'm gonna springiness an absorbing illustration of this, which is simply a institution that we reasonably precocious invested successful called Pink Frog. And truthful what Pink Frog is really, it's a crippled studio, but what they're going to bash is they're going to integrate Lightning Network successful bid to supply a amended assemblage acquisition for their gamers, and they're going to usage sats arsenic rewards successful the game, and besides rewards betwixt users.
We've seen that earlier and possibly that's not absorbing described successful the mode that I conscionable laid it out, but here's the item that I deliberation truly makes it compelling and shows an advancement successful the Bitcoin ecosystem, broadly. This is simply a squad that is not coming from the Bitcoin perspective, but is coming from the gaming perspective.
So a squad coming from King, which is 1 of the astir prestigious studios and palmy studios successful the gaming world, and it's the squad that introduced and grew Candy Crush. And Candy Crush is simply a crippled that has seen 100 cardinal monthly progressive users arsenic an illustration of the adoption that this squad has been capable to achieve.
Now, what they did erstwhile they near King and launched Pink Frog is they thought profoundly astir the gaming acquisition and however it could beryllium made amended for their gamers. And what they're doing is they're looking astatine a young millennial, a Gen Z audience. So they're looking astatine similar the TikTok assemblage and they're trying to spot however exertion oregon different sorts of innovations tin interweave with what these gamers are looking for.
So they're not truly trying to unit bitcoin in, they're identifying Bitcoin arsenic a mode to service a request and a privation that they've observed successful their idiosyncratic base. And truthful it's truly breathtaking to spot the technologies beryllium utilized successful this way, which is conscionable to lick problems oregon to connection immoderate benignant amusive effect to a happening that radical want.
And alternatively than trying to person radical that they privation bitcoin, it’s utilizing Bitcoin technologies to conscionable radical wherever they are and to integrate with their lives oregon the mode that they're spending their time. Pink Frog is simply a nice, amusive illustration of that. Then, going backmost to the precise opening of our conversation, Taro was the superior exertion of that, wherever erstwhile we introduced Lightning Network successful emerging markets, and I'll usage El Salvador again arsenic the example, we saw that radical truly needed to beryllium banked done Bitcoin and done Lightning Network. They needed to beryllium capable to prosecute with their section assemblage and online, without a debit oregon recognition card, and truly that was Lightning Network for them. But BTC’s volatility was hard for radical of little socioeconomic status. So Taro comes successful to conscionable radical precisely wherever they're astatine and to connection a solution for thing that they cognize they need, which are tools to prosecute some successful their section and successful the planetary economy.
What you're saying truly resonates with maine due to the fact that I'm excited astir precisely the same, which is the mode that Bitcoin tin emergence to a assortment of challenges that aboriginal users have.
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