@bsvdripon X · 2026-10-05
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That being said, if I fail, then I fail on my own terms. If I go bankrupt, then at least I will know I took the risk, learned something along the way, and refused to sit on the sidelines waiting for someone else to build the future I wanted to see. At the very least, I tried to give BSV a fighting chance. There is something fundamentally different between criticizing from the sidelines and putting your own time, money, reputation, and energy into building something. It is easy to tell someone what they should build when you are not the one paying the bills, writing the code, fixing the failures, answering the users, or carrying the consequences. You can spend day after day complaining about what BSV lacks, or you can spend day after day trying to build what you believe it needs. I chose the latter. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe some of these ideas will fail. Maybe the market will prove me wrong in ways I cannot predict. I can accept that. What I cannot accept is the idea that failure should be avoided simply because someone else might disapprove of the attempt. Satoshi did not give us a guarantee of success. He gave us an experiment. That experiment only matters if people are willing to continue experimenting. If I succeed, then I do not believe I succeed alone. I succeed alongside every user who supported the infrastructure, every builder who contributed an idea, every person who actually used what was created, and ultimately the ecosystem itself. If LocalBSV becomes something meaningful, then BSV benefits from it. More utility, more users, more transactions, more experimentation, and more reasons for people to actually use the network. That is the part people seem to forget. I am not building against BSV. I am building because I believe BSV is worth building on. So make it make sense. You can spend years explaining why nothing can work, or you can spend years trying to make something work. I already made my choice. If I fall, I will get back up. If I fail, I will learn. If I lose everything, at least I will know I tried. And if I succeed, then maybe all of us get to see what was possible when someone simply refused to stop believing in a better world for everyone.
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