They all got paid by creating value, the money is just the common agreement that makes it possible to divide the labour, making specialization possible, which again has created all of modern, tech based civilization.
I've been thinking a bit of the ossification of Bitcoin versus Hive the past days, I'll write something soon, but might need a couple of weeks to ponder on it.
My thinking in short is that Bitcoin might become digital gold for real, and with that comes problems: it simply won't be as liquid. So it won't really drive a new, alternative economy at all.
If it was destined for that there would be way more than ~5000 Bitcoin in the Lightning network, the number has even been going down a bit...
Yet it works for now, so there will be some time to rotate into Monero, physical gold, cash, stablecoins or Hive too of course!
Maybe we should do a long form conversation and slap it in one of your videos. You are a hyperthinker which, in my opinion, is the only way these thoughts get truly polished.
Thanks, yeah absolutely! I'm up for close to anything like that :-)
I'll get around to updating my contact info here, its been very messy the past years since I ended up in a bit of an impossible situation. Moving around a lot the next years will solve that, which of course leads me to actually experience a lot of things that are very relevant to this!