DESIGN FOR THE LONG TERM
ARTICLES
VALUES
Just so we know where we stand. We might not agree on everything and it’s ok.
No rush
Low time preference: go slow rather than crash the car. Don't build fast and break things.
​
Best practices are more important than time-to-market.
​
For instance we believe smart contracts development should use methods inherited from C++ embedded rather than agile web2.
Digital property rights are essential
Our lives have been steadily moving towards digital/online since the 1990’s. And it’s not going to stop. There is therefore a strong need to allow individuals to own something even if it is in binary form.
The alternative is to drift towards a sleek and modern form of serfdom.
​
Bitcoin does not use enough energy
Electricity is not a perfect energy transfer medium. It struggles through space and time: indeed it doesn’t like long distances and cannot be stored at scale.
​
Because of this, there is unused capacity in the world grids in the form of
1) stranded energy that cannot be transported,
2) a mismatch between real-time production and demand.
For energy companies, the most rational thing to do with this unused capacity is to sell it to Bitcoin miners. Read more
There is an issue with our money
It’s not new and it has been the case ever since humans started using money.
If you had the ability to print money and you needed some urgently, would you print it? Of course you would. So do most governments on the planet.
Humans need a form of global neutral money where supply cannot be inflated and issuance schedule is set in stone. It doesn’t need to be used by everyone; it just needs to exist so that people can fall back to it whenever they need to.
We can accompany your project and help with the software engineering and technical aspects.
HOW WE CAN HELP
​
-
Feasibility
-
High-level product design
-
Guidance with technical architecture
-
Technical help during conversations with legal advisers, regulators, compliance
-
Research and selection of suppliers
-
UX Design (user journeys and wireframing)
-
Technical stack (tools, programming languages, libraries)
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CULTURE
The founder holds a computer engineering degree from EFREI in Paris and has 15 years of professional experience as a software developer with telecom and banking clients in the UK. He worked for 5 years with BNP Paribas Singapore as a Lean consultant and Transformation project manager.
