From 944367494e88b21f2ac5fcc739946d72ae5e86c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brandon Lovejoy Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:11:17 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Minor corrections spelling and minor grammar corrections --- _posts/2015-12-29-Why-Vision-Matters.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2015-12-29-Why-Vision-Matters.md b/_posts/2015-12-29-Why-Vision-Matters.md index 5da11f8..d796000 100644 --- a/_posts/2015-12-29-Why-Vision-Matters.md +++ b/_posts/2015-12-29-Why-Vision-Matters.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Why Vision Matters" categories: update author: "Daniel Larimer" --- -My prior blog post created quite a contraversy among many in the BitShares community. I cast a vision for BitShares as an +My prior blog post created quite a controversy among many in the BitShares community. I cast a vision for BitShares as an an non-violent alternative to government. These ideas are considered niche and a distraction by some. Today I am going to justify the raw business benefits of a vision. @@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ I suggest everyone read his full article for a bit more depth on each of those r ## Vision vs Strategy -Creating a well ordered society governed in a manner compatiable with the NAP is a vision +Creating a well ordered society governed in a manner compatible with the NAP is a vision that is as open ended and universally desirable as calling for "world peace". I don't know about you, but I don't know anyone who *likes* to pay taxes or *likes* to be bothered by -beurocratic regulations that are impossible to follow but might just land you in jail. +bureaucratic regulations that are impossible to follow but might just land you in jail. I set out a vision that is inclusive of everyone. In my vision there is universal health care, unemployment insurance, and welfare to take care of those unable to help themselves. In my @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ system finally implodes under its own weight it will once again fall to private ### Go Fund me -[Gofundme.com](http://gofundme.com) is personal crowdfunding platform that has raised over $1 billion +[Gofundme.com](http://gofundme.com) is a personal crowdfunding platform that has raised over $1 billion dollars to help individuals. They have created a community of giving and that community has given more than twice the combined daily volume of all non-bitcoin trades for a year. They charge a fee of 5% plus credit card (3%) on every dollar given. In total they have earned $50 million dollars from @@ -73,14 +73,14 @@ capturing 100% of the non-bitcoin exchange volume. Gofundme recently sold for $600M dollars. -## Perspecitve +## Perspective It is easy for those of us in the cryptocurrency industry to lose perspective on how small our industry is. No one has actually created anything that is gaining real traction. Sure, it looks like Ripple, Ethereum or Doge are gaining traction but they are insignificant. The reason they are all insigificant is because like BitShares today, they are technological solutions to real problems but still fail to serve the average Joe. -Lets have a bigger vision with a focus on helping other people. A vision that the average Joe can benefit from and +Let's have a bigger vision with a focus on helping other people. A vision that the average Joe can benefit from and get behind. A blockchain is a means to an end, it isn't an end in itself. While everyone else is busy creating advanced "smart contracts" and new "privacy solutions" and attempting to partner with banks that want nothing to do with them we can actually start helping people.