vinceko

비트코인을 쓰게 하려다가 그냥 공짜로 주기로 결정했습니다 올해 초에 코페이 서비스를 처음 런칭했을 때 저의 기대는 비트코인 스탠다드를 앞당기는 것이었습니다. 비트코인을 실생활에서 결제 수단으로 쉽게 쓸 수 있다면 화폐로써 자연스럽게 많이 쓰이지 않을까 단순하게 생각했습니다. 그런데 막상 운영해보니 지속적으로 비트코인을 쓰려는 분은 생각보다 많지 않았습니다. 아직 스탠다드가 오지 않은 시대라 쓰기보단 오히려 더 모으려는 욕망이 훨씬 강하니까요. 그레샴의 법칙을 체감했습니다. 그때부터 방향을 바꿔 고민하기 시작했습니다. 대중화를 하려면 어떻게 해야할까. 비트코인을 잘 모르는 사람도 자연스럽게 관심을 가지게 할 가장 쉬운 유인동기가 뭘까. 공짜로 비트코인을 주면 어떨까 싶었습니다. 그런데 그럴 만한 재원이 없었습니다. 지속 가능하게 공짜로 줄 수 있는 방법이 있을까 계속 고민했습니다. 고민 끝에 코페이패스를 만들기 시작했습니다. 프랜차이즈 브랜드 가맹점에서 오프라인 결제할 수 있는 시스템이고, 가맹점으로부터 받는 제휴 수수료를 비트코인으로 돌려드립니다. 이 가설이 생각한 대로 될지는 모르겠습니다. 그래도 희망을 가지고 있습니다. 많은 사람이 조금이라도 쉽게 비트코인을 소유하고, 모으는 경험을 하고, 구매력이 올라가는 걸 직접 느끼고, 더 깊은 관심을 갖게 된다면 비트코인 스탠다드를 앞당길 수 있지 않을까 생각하고 있습니다. 생각보다 이해관계자가 많았고, 규제도 복잡했습니다. 처음엔 불가능하다고 생각했는데, 지금은 거의 다 왔습니다. 앞으로 만들어가는 과정 계속 공유하겠습니다.

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I'm not the greatest homemaker by a long shot, but I have trouble remembering what life was like before I retired from my job to be at home. The core tasks I primarily handle are laundry, home maintenance, yard work, budgeting, household and grocery shopping, meal prep, and kid logistics / transport. When we were both working, we would basically have to fit all of that into weekends and evenings, leaving so, so little time to just enjoy family life and have the down time that is so critical to sanity. While I make some great family dinners, I'm not as good at other homemaker talks like house cleaning and interior decorating. We splurge on a cleaning lady who comes every other week for a few hours to do the deeper cleaning of bathrooms and floors and such, and I do my best to keep with the rest. I also fit in SeedSigner stuff, which includes running my online shop, shitposting about the project, helping support users, doing light repo maintainer work, finding time to travel a few times a year for bitcoin events, and whatever else needs to be done for the project. Why am I sharing all of this? In what I think are the most important ways I am living my best life. That does not mean that things are always easy or stress free, but it does mean that my wife and I generally have time to focus on the **most important** stuff, which is family life and building relationships with our kids. I know what it's like to be one of two working parents and to be basically trying to get through life one day at a time. To blow up on the kids in the morning and feel bad about it for the rest of the day. To have to drop them off at day care and worry about what their day will be like. To be exhausted when you get home from work and still have a million things to do. To spend what would be productive evening and weekend time running them to and from sports events. To get up dead tired and have to do it all over again. We're blessed to have my wife's salary but we've also made a lot of sacrifices to make this arrangement possible: driving cars for as long as possible, scaling back vacations, our kids generally don't wear name brand stuff, I shop at Aldi for most of our groceries, we limit how much we eat out, we don't go overboard on Christmas or birthdays, all of that kind of stuff. So TLDR: if you are intentfully planning your life, have kids or want to have kids, and can pull off just one parent working, I cannot recommend it more strongly. One parent may be more self-managed or may have skills that make them a better option. One parent may have better career prospects and earning potential. But if you have to scale back on what is your dream house, or move to a smaller house in another county with lower taxes and a lower cost of living, or change careers, open a small business, or do some of the cost cutting things we've had to do... or if you have to do all of it, I'm here to tell you that it's worth it. My only regret is not being able to pull it off sooner -- if you plan for it, you can get there too. Society and corporate America have tried to trick us all into thinking that both parents in a family should have careers, and they've made it really hard to pull off with inflation and the cost of raising a family. But the stronger the why, the easer the how, and the "why" of having the best family life possible is worth it and something you won't regret when you're old and looking back on how things actually were or what they could have been. Thankfully bitcoin will continue to make some of the financial stuff easier. But again, my only regret is not putting our family at the forefront sooner.