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Best case is if you keep all transactions in crypto, which can then be entirely managed P2P. Compromise case is P2P trading for fiat money, which may impact your rates but is better than nothing. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of the centralized exchanges that are in turn limited by compliance and regulatory considerations.
Unless the entire world suddenly decides to adopt crypto (unlikely), the fiat component will be a major challenge for greater usage.
Hope the show was good!
So at Quidli we work on enabling orgs to internally share crypto with their members as incentives using existing workflows like via web browser and Slack - online teams and communities can use crypto as digital rewards with real value to encourage participation and engagement in their objectives, missions.
We've seen solid adoption on the Slack app and so we've now pushed to prod this v1 of a Discord app. It's not yet open-source or fully on-chain, but we make it free and it offers a friendlier onboarding experience to crypto for newbies.
Super happy to answer any questions or take feedback/comments on this from the community here. Thanks!
Potentially good news for HODLers
Potentially bad news for decentralization
Not sure these guys are the brightest shooters in the game though...
The challenges in legal tech are rarely technical; it's largely in the hands of the practioners themselves to want to change and to adopt new technologies. Evenb low-hanging fruit tools like e-mail and word processors took time to catch on; while seemingly no-brainers like e-signatures are still looked upon warily. So where does that leave even more robust solutions?
And this isn't even taking into consideration clients, who have the bargaining power to also drive some of the change but are often afraid to do so because everyone likes "having a lawyer" once they're significantly large enough to be able to afford the services of one.
I once built a cloud-printing app (free printing in exchange for banner ads printed on the pages) and for an initial launch, we installed printers loaded w/ paper across a university campus. A Japanese friend recommended and even sent us paper from Japan (can't remember the brand anymore) to use because he claimed it was some of the thinnest industrial-grade available and this would help us maximize the paper capacity for each printer.
Hope you're up on like the 3rd floor or something!
Virtuous circle!
From what I understand, I can see how the operations for this kind of business model aren't ideal and so difficult to imagine scaling. But even PG has been pretty vocal about how limiting media subcription based models are...
Sorry, end of rant.
I guess for me the main question is, what do you mean by 'fluency?' Do you want to speak/be thought of as someone from an English speaking country? Or is it more a personal feeling that you want to be better?
For someone with an already high-level of English speaking and writing, I think the remaining barrier is more cultural than language. Like can you decipher common codes as someone who lives in the culture of that English-speaking country. And from my experience, a lot of that is broken up into two categories - 1. childhood identifications, things like education system, curriculum; regional, national milestone events, etc.; and 2. pop culture today, things like TV shows, current events, views on social, economics, politics, etc.
I think it's easier for the US case just because how pervasive American soft power is. But in any case, my feeling just from your post is that it's perhaps really more culture rather than language that you want to focus on.
And if anything, that leads me to look at my devices even more!
Great question. As it appears now, it seems like a case of building a product without any validation of results.
You mean like scenes shot with actors to imply certain events happening? ex. scenes protests in some city when it's actually just a bunch of actors making it look like a protest is happening?