BlueSky raises a $15M Series A with Blockchain Capital as lead.

My bet is that BlueSky will come home to crypto despite community pushback. Crypto is gravity.

BlueSky raises a $15M Series A with Blockchain Capital as lead.

My bet is that BlueSky will come home to crypto despite community pushback. Crypto is gravity.
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Molly's consternation here reminds me a lot of the backlash towards Uber. Some of the super-online Twitter-tankies were adamant that everyone hated Uber. Turns out no, everyone loves Uber because the alternative was Taxis which were terrible. Similar to crypto, the alternative is literally Wells Fargo & Western Union. Crypto will win over fintech-lipstick on a pig and it's not going to be close.

Molly's consternation here reminds me a lot of the backlash towards Uber. Some of the super-online Twitter-tankies were adamant that everyone hated Uber. Turns out no, everyone loves Uber because the alternative was Taxis which were terrible. Similar to crypto, the alternative is literally Wells Fargo & Western Union. Crypto will win over fintech-lipstick on a pig and it's not going to be close.
https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3l7bqwnhixq2j

The way I see it, BlueSky is a cypherpunk-libertarian crypto app in denial b/c of backlash from some users (generally Anglophone-Left [for ex. I don't think Japan/Brazil care at all]) and the team is trying to glom on to Mastodon-adjacent users and win them over. This is probably fine for bootstrapping, but ActivityPub is simply not that big and worth bending over backwards to try and stay vibe-aligned towards is likely -EV.

If I were BDFL of BSky, I would:

1. Immediately build-in an account-abstracted Ethereum Wallet
2. Upload the PLC DiD directory to Optimism
3. Upload all PDSs to @codexstorage / @ethswarm 
4. Use Web3 native adtech like @spindl & @snickerdoodle to monetize & convert users into customers.

I'd say they have more mainstream journalists who left X b/c of Elon. For the same reason, the community leans heavy left, similar to Mastodon. Content is mostly political but maybe that's because it's election season. 
Overall I like the protocol design a lot more than I like the early community, It's still very much an echo chamber like Mastodon. Can't speak to Brazil / Japanese users though, of which there are many...