BRBitcoinapolis on Nostr: "Two Jacks and a Saylor: Are they on the same page?" Big fan of Jack Dorsey, he's ...

"Two Jacks and a Saylor: Are they on the same page?"

Big fan of Jack Dorsey, he's following Saylor's lead with Block.

I always thought Jack Dorsey (JD), Jack Mallers, and Michael Saylor were all on the same page. That's naive. I am still a superfan of all three men but Dorsey to me has the most pure intent when it comes to Satoshi's vision.

I followed the public blow up with JD and a16z. I also listened intently to JD in Portugal. He was crystal clear on why he was there, for Open Source which completely houses Bitcoin/NOSTR thus he was wearing his infamous SATOSHI shirt and NOSTR hat.

He explained how much Big Tech has TAKEN from Open Source and has never GIVEN back to Open Source efforts.

Read, no one is giving big money, other than JD, back into Open Source:

Dorsey: Bitcoin/NOSTR:
- OpenSats $21 Million Donation May 4, 2024 https://news.bitcoin.com/jack-dorsey-backed-initiative-donates-21m-to-bitcoin-nonprofit-opensats-to-bolster-development/ (Essentially $15 Million for Bitcoin and $5 Million for NOSTR)
- His company Block just announced the creation of a 3nm ASIC
- Getting into Bitcoin Home Mining kits
- He supports Ocean and supports the people rightly concerned with SPAM and keeping mining/pools/nodes truly decentralized
- Hasn't publicly supported SPAM/Ordinals/Inscriptions/Runes/Stamps
- NOSTR champion
- Buying BTC for Block's Books
- Understands the Africa/unbanked/underbanked
- BTC SOV and MoE

Mallers: Bitcoin/NOSTR:
- Massive Supporter of Bitcoin
- LN guru and visionary
- Is indifferent on SPAM/Ordinals/Inscriptions/Runes/Stamps by his comments here, basically thanking them for financially supporting the Bitcoin Network's Health https://soundcloud.com/what-bitcoin-did/nobody-understands-bitcoin-with-jack-mallers-american-hodl-alex-thorn-calle (Never mind most of the panel underwhelmed by simply thinking the attack is a 'nothing burger.)
- NOSTR basic user
- I thought he understood Africa/unbanked/underbanked, but not if SPAM isn't a threat?
-BTC is SOV and MoE

Saylor: Bitcoin/NOSTR:
- Bitcoin Chad
- Pro LN
- Supportive of SPAM/Ordinals/Inscriptions/Runes/Stamps with his Orange Checkmark work
- NOSTR, no public support, a few posts
- Bitcoin Development, rumors are he tried to shut down ARK from donating
- I heard one comment in a Lightning Round with Natalie about Saylor talking Africa
- Has Saylor ever publicly supported Ocean or given money to Open Source projects?
- BTC a SOV (I align with this: https://bitcoinapolis.blogspot.com/2022/12/bitcoin-bitcoin-as-digital-property-is.html )


I agree with 99% of what Dorsey is doing, 98% of Saylor, and about 90% of Mallers (he's still a green horn with massive mentors.)

My favorite, albeit crappy, title I achieved in my BI Corporate America career was 'Principal Solutions Engineer' (even though they never listened to me when I said it should be Principle not Principal. Coders are all about precision.)

But I do like Solutions, so what will it take? Open Source is way harder than Closed/Corporate/Legacy/FIAT. So much of it was 'organic' with TCP/IP, SMTP, VOIP, Linux, and now Bitcoin and NOSTR. There are so many ways to 'armchair quarterback' why something will fail, no different than NOSTR or Bitcoin, but you also have to plan for your success. We have to plan for Bitcoin/NOSTRs success. What does that look like? How can we help in a positive way, I can't give millions but I can donate a ton of my precious time. (Only my cancer advocacy is more important.)

Projects I would love to help:
- Decentralization of Nodes -
https://x.com/Bitcoinapolis55/status/1789627285198242153
"...so yah 77% of the UTXOs are useless and are a waste of resources."
- Decentralization of the miners/Pools
I am pro JD's Ocean, but how do we overcome the $$$$$ incentive when people go with the disingenuous because greed overrides what is right? How do we take Ocean from Minority to Majority?
- Developers: How do we make sure we are funding the 'right' projects and are not just turning into shills or supporting those developers who losers like a16z/Bitcoin Magazine support?

Once again, most pressing, elevating Ocean. If you look at our past, some of the best projects and things never made it to mass adoption. Mainly because people with the FIAT money had the best marketing and advertising.

Satoshi had a little budget, how can we get back on the right path and incentivize people to go with Ocean and Bitcoin Knots?

I can't help but think of the story of the guy who developed the Weber Grill. How many demos he had to do in order to get mass adoption. Fueled simply by passion, for his product.

How can we recapture Bitcoin and make it boring again, and move all the SPAM and other non-monetary projects like the Orange Check off the Bitcoin Base Layer onto L2+?


We capture stranded energy for Bitcoin Mining, how do we capture stranded passion for Bitcoin advocacy?

We can't simply let 2 Jacks and a Saylor do everything. There is power in numbers, not images.