when i announced the pre alpha of my gateway today:
"A Federated-Blockchains-a-like Altoin, Bitcoin to Anything Paymentgateway
with cross Social Media integration and Internet-of-Things Servicebus
as a first step towards "Federated Blockchains"
In the coming years there will be a point, where we will not differentiate among ioT, apps or even users any more.
There will be just command~, data~ and validation pipes with endpoints and everything will just be an app.
For the first step, i would like to build a payment gateway provider with
ioT standart compliant servicebus, social media~, app-chains~ and third-party (payment providers, APIs ...) integration.
(They will per dedault integrate into each other anyway in the coming years).
I have choosen to use lavarel as a base framework.
... and guess what: I have a first running (alpha state) system on my test system.
It has already all the features I have hoped to achieve,
except of the last mile to Fiat, because this has to be made with a contractor. So i am currently working on some extra features.
One is also ready (but alpha),
its the integration into following services:
23andme, 37Signals, 500px, AngelList, App.net, Asana, Bit.ly, Box, Buffer, CampaignMonitor, Cheddar, Coinbase,
ConstantContact, Coursera, Dailymile, Dailymotion, Deezer, deviantART, DigitalOcean, Discord, Disqus, Douban, Dribbble, Dropbox, Envato, Etsy, Eventbrite, Everyplay,
EyeEm, Fitbit, Flickr, Foursquare, GitLab, Goodreads, Google+, Heroku, Hitbox, Human API, Imgur, Instagram, Jawbone, Jira, Kakao, LinkedIn, MailChimp, Medium, Meetup,
Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Live, Mixcloud, Moves, Naver, Paymill, PayPal, PayPal Sandbox, Pinterest, Podio, Pushbullet, QQ, Rdio, Readability, Reddit, RunKeeper,
SalesForce, Slack, SoundCloud, SharePoint, Spotify, StackExchange, Steam, StockTwits, Strava, Stripe, Trello, Tumblr, Twitch, Twitter, Uber, Venmo, VersionOne, Vimeo,
VKontakte, Weibo, Weixin, Weixin Web, WordPress, Xing, xREL, Yahoo, Yammer, Yandex, YouTube, Zendesk.
At the moment I am working on an IoT Standard Compliant Service Bus and on an integration with a new partner:
We are planning and discussing the joined development and integrating the ...... to be continued after Negotiations"
(for more see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=901605.msg16372466#msg16372466 )
... i came across the question:
If everybody and every coin can use it, where is the catch for Europecoin?
This question brought me to sharing my vision about market domination and the idea,
that represents the soul of the Europecoin project:
I am often witnessing this kind of "where is the catch moment" when it comes to Europecoin.
We are all conditioned, that market domination comes from having features while others being excluded from being able to have those features too.
Its the classical market model since hundreds, if not thousands, of years. But we (and Bitcoin) are here to change exactly that.
And we are doing it also, but not only, for unselfish reasons.
We do it because its the better, more sustainable and more powerful strategy for all: markets, us and humanity
So please give me the favour, to explain, why i think different about the question, of how to be unique or how to be in a unique market position.
Two things have been influencing me in a way that formed a different picture:
- Witnessing and living the movements and relationships of crowds during over 10 years as search-engine expert.
- The legendary book "the cathedral and the bazaar"
I am sure exclusive features are good in the short term or in terms of speculation.
But which part of IT and Software industries is ruling the planet? Though the fight around this question isn't over,
its increasingly the open software part of this economy and even open hardware is catching up quickly.
This industry has proven that even if you enable everybody, to do the same, as you are able to do,
the SOURCE is always in the leading position. And there is a reason why and there is more:
If you try to be unique through exclusion, you are forced to build barriers, that are always leading to centralisation of powers,
sooner or later and you will reach a point, where you will be forced, to defend your position through some kind of violence.
Its the essence of all problems we are having in this world.
On the other hand a house of open doors is placing itself in a kind of "soft central" position,
through being deeper interconnected than those, who are connecting to, or through, its open doors.
This form of interconnection is the real future force of market domination.
And this is what we are doing, seeking our market domination by being a gateway, as a team through collaboration
and as projects though sharing and enabling everybody around us.
And if you still think this may be wishfull thinking, ask any mathematician and he will proof me right.
The trick is not to be in the centre of the market, but to BE the market
thank you for reading
Matthias