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AllSpice does not want casual users. During their beta period, they found that paying users were much more engaged with the product than freemium users. AllSpice aims to be part of the daily workflow for hardware engineers, so they want users to commit with their credit card. As a result, they canceled the free plans.
The Experimentation Machine
Jeffrey Bussgang
And it’s because we need to solve the problem that blockchains are actually, originally, here to solve, which is provable scarcity and the double-spend problem. These “files” need to live somewhere in public state, in an environment of code that can make commitments, in order for their social meaning to make sense. “Web3” is that environment - made possible by publicly agreed-upon blockchain state - with enough group confidence in these “intermediary files” for social meaning.
Tokengated Commerce
notboring.co
Even the ancient Stoics, supposedly the masters of all emotion, conceded that we’ll have involuntary reactions. To loud noises. To uncertainty. To being attacked.
Courage Is Calling
Ryan Holiday
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