Interop with money settles arguments between visions
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if it's just pure idealism, well, then your ideal is known as on his merit may not be any better than anybody else's ideal. And you're just arguing about, you know, you're just arguing about your vision.
Episode 45: we are pressing the flesh and kissing babies. Yeah, man. It is Friday once again (approx., from transcript intro) 01:43:52 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Purely idealistic standards efforts end up like the XKCD comic: 11 standards, then 12. Dave says building on interop with Bitcoin and Lightning changes that. Success is defined by working with the system and making money sustainably, so it's not just one ideal argued against another.