Tribute to Peter Bushnell
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Hello friends,
If you like feel free to add your own nice words in this thread.
Here is mine
I want to say thank you to Bushstar for creating FTC.
By that he created all of us (our virtual presence here).
He created great coin, and I am very happy he did.
Thank you for giving me chance to be part of Feathercoin, coin with great future!
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Yes :
I am grateful for the work and contribution to our entire community.
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Agree all, we will continue.
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Thanks Peter for everything you’ve done for Feathercoin!
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Yes, it has been a great experience since 2013. Thanks.
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Thank you!
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+100 Perfect!
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I already know how much work Peter has done to make FTC a “thing”. Cheers mate…
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I wish I was around for the ealy days. Peter had a great vision of the future. It far exceeds the limits we have imposed on the technology since the excitement wore off.
There was a brilliant quotes on CoinDesk
He was describing ideas for Feathercoin as part of asset Exchanges as early as June 2013.
“We’d hope that eventually this would become something that’s fit for the mass public,” Bushnell says. “For consumers to use. The major problem is getting sort of cash into it. Getting real world money into bitcoins, which has made this whole thing live around with the techies more than anything else. You have to try quite hard. But there will be services that will be coming out that will make this whole thing much easier. There is a lot of money in it.”
In the same article, ideas that sound like a precursor to Counter Party asset tokens as a service.
With the wide variety of digital currencies appearing, we asked Bushnell how he saw the future unfolding and how these currencies might relate to one another.
“I see room for lots of cryptocurrencies,” he says. "We just need the correct solutions in place to support them well … You could have much more niche coins, which I think would be fantastic. A small group of people could drum up their own coin for changing between themselves with a root to an exchange. As long as you have some volume – as long as you’ve got some value – you have a viable currency.
“There is room for a lot more, but people aren’t really prepared to see a lot more. There is room for a lot of fun coins. You could have a Pokémon coin, a color collectible, or that sort of thing. There is a lot of room for coins in games as well … We had Linden dollars in the past with Second Life.”
He was a pioneer, and explorer in uncharted territory and what Peter did was very brave. He stood up and said, we can do this better and I’m not listening to the people who have preconceived ideas of what is and isn’t the ‘done’ thing.
I hope if there’s one thing you guys take from Peter’s history it’s that without being bold and brave and without a vision of the future that flies in the face of convention, that Feathercoin wouldn’t have happened and that Feathercoin can’t continue to have a future.
We could have seen Peter’s grand vision exist, of asset exchanges, broad appeal as real world currency, and counter party tokens, if it wasn’t for the ‘it’s not feathercoin police’ that popup when exciting pioneering ideas get proposed, who have chased off anyone who would dream a little larger like Peter did in 2013.
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Amazing picture!
