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Originally Posted by LektorAJ
You're missing the bit where one merely writes a white paper and thereby wishes a piece of p2p software into existence at zero cost - it thereby works out cheaper than developing conventional software where you have to pay developers etc.
Naive perhaps, not shady.
This is what software does for us. It gives small groups or individual minds great leverage. It is what Satoshi did, whether one person or a group, and its a 100 billion dollar software now. Also it wasn't very well done they say, they say its obvious he wasn't a software engineer. Szabo, the number 1 contender for being Satoshi, also speak to the importance of this leverage.
I think we should be cautious to call me naive. I built this vision off of generalizations of some great minds and their ideas. Its difficult to get out and translate it in dialogue, but that's why we have software because we can make and observe some tangible conclusion together.
That said, Patrick is the one that has coded my vision, just by chance, but I knew that there would be at least successive attempts by different projects. His just happens to be the correct direction. We've had chats over a couple years and I've loosely helped guide his direction (some of it he is steadfast on in his own direction
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The idea is that the software basically needs less and less intense maintenance and building/growth overtime. If multiple projects are working off of the infrastructure then it wouldn't be a problem to incentivize a few hobbyists to maintain it. Bitcoin works much like this. The benefits are indirect rather than direct.
It's something I have thought of for quite sometime, and so has Patrick. If I am shady or not forthcoming, its simply that I think his project is key and the best. But its not proprietary, so I have nothing to sell. And I am clearly interested in any project that means to serve players and the game. His might only end up serve as a proof of concept, or nothing at all, and it might be a completely different next evolution that actually bootstraps.
But there is more than just naivety and wishful thinking going on. That time long passed imo. We have something to discuss now.