Re: Coverage on BadVoltage

On 29 July 2014 22:48, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> Bad Voltage recently did a piece on the Web Payments work:
>
> http://www.badvoltage.org/2014/07/25/1x21/
>
> The Web Payments bits start at around 40'20" in. Thanks to Bruce Lawson
> for the tip that our work was covered over there.
>
> Here's an in-depth response to the piece, a response from Stuart
> Langridge (Ubuntu One), and Bruce Lawson (Opera Evangelist and
> "Introducing HTML5" author):
>
>
> http://community.badvoltage.org/t/1x21-everything-old-is-old-again/2053/27?u=msporny
>
> If those of you in the group are wondering about the strategic aspects
> of the work we're doing, the post above might help explain the approach
> we're currently taking.
>

Nice comments from both you and Stuart.

I think Stuart raises a very good point.  And that is that disruption is
not only hard, but unlikely, in an incumbent dominated space.

The c. 10,000 developers working on bitcoin *might* make a difference.
Time will tell on that one.

I do like your point that there are many unintended consequences to the
work that gets done.  I think those could be very beneficial side effects
of all that's going on in the payments space.


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