Its easy to say that while completely ignoring the lopsided economic incentives of launching your own thing
If there is a single 1 incompatible thing then the team and network wont let you launch on their network, wont give you any of the partner tokens or subsidies
And you did all that when you could have just used your clout to launch your own thing collecting literally 8, 9 or 10 figures of USD and the majority ownership of a precreated asset you granted yourself.
50 years of salary, taxed way lower, for any software engineering founder.
If you’re ignoring this just because “crypto”, while working on someone else’s adtech has-been, you are doing yourself a disservice.
The issuer side of all markets is heavily misunderstood. But especially in crypto markets. People view the whole concept from the speculator’s side.
With that said, I'm optimistic as all signs seem to point to the fact that security and privacy are going to become more and more critical. Facebook Libra is a great example. Even FB wants to enter this space and rightly so. They have the userbase and are trying to build a decentralized (well federated really) network. Blockstack is open vs. permissioned (Libra). We've done 4+ years of R&D work and are now in the developer traction phase. We want thousands of experiments to happen and organic usage of apps to emerge.
Thanks
Our hope is that the work we've done (and the $1.8M legal and accounting fees that we've paid!) helps other projects as well. That would take some sting out of the legal/accounting costs of doing this :-)