An overview of key business considerations for developers, including early revenue generation, co-opetition, and leveraging micropayments.
Businesses should generate revenue even in the alpha stage by paying themselves in outputs and using vanity addresses for on-chain advertising.
Using services like Dom Lee allows developers to monetize their specialized knowledge and create an additional income stream by charging for consultations.
On-chain feature pages allow users to crowdfund development priorities, providing a clear roadmap and holding businesses accountable for delivery.
Integrating with existing services is crucial to avoid duplicating work, learn from others, and provide users with a richer ecosystem of tools.
Co-opetition, where businesses copy and improve upon each other's successful ideas, drives innovation and benefits the entire ecosystem.
Businesses can use Tonic Pow to create marketing offers where users are paid in Bitcoin to share links, effectively expanding reach on social media.
Micropayments can replace complex and insecure legacy internet protocols like OAuth, as paying for access is a more direct and secure form of validation.
Bitcoin wallet signatures provide a superior alternative to traditional logins and CAPTCHAs, offering better security and user experience without collecting personal data.
Using micropayments eliminates the need to collect and store sensitive user data, which significantly reduces security costs, storage needs, and business liability.
Key recommendations for developers include leveraging existing tools and paying in outputs, while avoiding building custom wallets or running a full node.
A discussion on practical toolchains, improving the new user onboarding experience, and the role of off-chain identity in a Bitcoin-based system.
An analysis of the differentiating features and limitations of Planaria and Run tools, plus a look at the practice of paying employees in outputs.
A discussion on conceptualizing off-chain data as objects that can be pushed on-chain later, touching on mutability and malleability use cases.
42:37Rafa Jiménez
1:16:37Jimmy Nguyen & Steve Shadders
33:37Jack Davies & Alessio Pagani
39:53Brendan Lee
47:58Brenton Gunning
41:09Evan Freeman
29:20Jad Wahab
37:28Matej Trampuš & Steve Shadders
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Saby Company Page
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Speech Processing Solutions
Vienna, Austria
Head-on Solutions GmbH
Nürnberg, Germany
