Scoring Bitcoin Points Like Digital Airline Miles

To je uredniško mnenje avtorja Michael Rhee, the founder of Wavlake and a contributor at Bitcoin Magazine.

Vsakdo ima rad beleženje rezultatov. Od všečkov in omemb v družabnih omrežjih do letalskih milj in nagrad Starbucks, točke nam natančno povedo, kje smo v komercialnem svetu. Na platformah družbenih medijev lahko pomenijo več oči in občutek potrditve. V svetu letalskih družb in kavarn lahko pomenijo več brezplačnih potovanj in frappuccinov.

Danes vsaka od teh partitur živi v obzidanem vrtu. Tako kot darilno kartico za vašo najljubšo trgovino je tudi te točke mogoče unovčiti samo na enem mestu in so zaklenjene v omejenem kontekstu. Všečkov svojih tvitov ne morem pretvoriti v brezplačne kave. Prav tako ne morem spremeniti ogledov svojih videoposnetkov v YouTubu v znižana bivanja v hotelih.

Ampak to ni nujno tako.

Predstavljajte si točkovni sistem na internetu, ki bi ga uporabljali vsi in bi lahko prosto prečkal različne platforme in aplikacije ter zagotavljal enotno definicijo vrednosti za vse.

If visions of the coming metaverse are true, then this kind of interoperability will be the fabric that weaves it all together. I believe that bitcoin has a key role to play in building a more unified commercial world — both on and off the internet — serving as a single, shared measure of value that can move across real and virtual borders with no friction.

Kot ustanovitelj Wavlake poskušam zgraditi ta svet. Wavlake is a way for music listeners to directly support the artists they love, using bitcoin micropayments. It is part of a larger ecosystem of internet services that run on an open, interoperable standard for bitcoin payments. We’re witnessing the early stages of this dramatic change already. On Stacker News, users reward each other for posts and comments they like using small amounts of bitcoin. Commenters can then withdraw that bitcoin from the site and use it to tip musicians on Wavlake. Those same musicians can use their awarded bitcoin to stream podcasts on pay-by-the-minute players like Breez or Fountain. Podcasters can then take that same bitcoin and convert it into U.S. dollars using Cash App, or turn it into a gift card with Bitrefill.

To create this same unified experience with dollars would require careful coordination and cooperation between every closed payment network in the world. That means Venmo would have to work with Zelle and vice-versa, along with every other dollar-based payment app in existence. In contrast, Bitcoin’s open standards and permissionless nature uniquely enable any service to seamlessly integrate with every other Bitcoin service imaginable, without planning or mandate.

These unified commercial worlds are still small and experimental, but hold huge potential for our society and economy. As bitcoin adoption continues to grow, we will gradually close the loop and create a truly global, commercial system. Naysayers will finally be able to buy — or get a free — cup of coffee using bitcoin, throwing away the notion that it’s a useless and frivolous technology. This is the point at which Bitcoin fades into the background and becomes invisible, like the electricity powering your desk lamp.

Zaradi tega možnega prihodnjega stanja se sprašujem: morda ni treba vsem razumeti avstrijske ekonomije ali trostavnega računovodstva ali problema bizantinskih generalov ali delovanja centralnega bančništva oz. WTF se je zgodil leta 1971 — or any of the other, myriad frameworks for explaining this complex system we call the economy. Maybe most people don’t need any of this to “get” Bitcoin, in the same way I don’t need to know how to build every component of a phone in order to understand its value.

At some point in the future, bitcoin becomes the measure of our world. It will be just like airline miles, but for everything.

To je gostujoča objava avtorja Michael Rhee. Izražena mnenja so v celoti njihova lastna in ne odražajo nujno mnenj BTC Inc. ali Bitcoin Magazine.