Mallers strikes me as a bright guy, Bitcoin enthusiast, and one who is contributing a lot to the Bitcoin ecosystem, so to speak. He has played an essential role in El Salvador. But it doesn't seem to excite people on the forum very much. At the time I opened a thread about their app and got almost no responses.
For me personally a very irritating presentation that I spent about 20 minutes on and I felt like I was watching a tennis match considering Jack was moving left and right around the stage all the time like he had worms or something
I didn't know how old he was, but considering the vocabulary he used (f*ck this, f*ck that) he looked to me like some teenager who drank a little more alcohol than he should have.
This is what sells now to the masses.
The technical aspect of the real advantages are not making views, are not getting followers, you need to go full extremist, it was throwing a bunch of bills last day I'm afraid next time you're going to see some burning on the stage followed by gunfire for the "liberation".
Fox is cashing the rewards after that fiasco yesterday which some consider was a marvelous speech.
Huge? I don't believe this is any significant news given that a very small percentage of people use Bitcoin as a currency. Most investors buy Bitcoin for completely different reasons than to use it to pay for anything - without or with Mallers innovation, things will not change dramatically.
I'm disappointed in this thing about usage too but, what can someone do about it?
It's irritating to the core, first we had no services to buy with coins, now we can almost buy everything (by using a third party, acknowledged) but nobody wants to buy stuff anymore, 99% of the holders want Amazon to accept bitcoin but not to use it, they are waiting for a 5x increase in price.
I think the best way to deal with this is to fully admit bitcoin is a tool, and everyone is free to use it as it deems fits, I'm pretty sure everyone thinks the internet has better uses than sharing porn but if that's what people want to do, it's their choice. Let's wait and see, I don't believe in an overnight change nor in a year-long one but maybe people realize that it's the same thing, you spend money if you think bitcoin will go up just you fiat, convert it to
BTC and spend it this way instead of normal cash. It might be troublesome in some countries but with the possibilities, we have in the EU and North America there are no excuses.