twovests OP wrote on July 2, 2023 at 9:21 PM

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in bluesky exists just to push bitcoin. that's literally it. if bluesky takes off, we're all going to be using bitcoin in a few years, and that sucks by twovests

when jack announced bluesky in 2019, he cited Platforms not Protocols, and emphasized the importance of blockchain technologies

this whole project was launched after he got to be one of the earliest adopters of the bitcoin lightning network (ie a layer 2 which centralizes payments to fix usability problems with bitcoin)

he's stated that he wants to integrate lightning (ie bitcoin) into bluesky, which like, yeah.

imagine how excited the person who came up with the name bluesky felt, pondering lightning, when they came up with the name bluesky

500poundsofnothing wrote on July 2, 2023 at 9:46 PM

didn't they abandon the blockchain stuff a while ago?

twovests OP wrote on July 2, 2023 at 10:18 PM

i didn't hear about this, when was that?

they haven't added blockchain stuff yet, but it's the direction this is definitely going

500poundsofnothing wrote on July 3, 2023 at 7:30 PM

I remember reading an article about it last year that mentioned something about how they don't have plans for anything block chain related but I ought to go find that to see if I am remembering correctly.