1. Segwit was/is a major reason for Bitcoins price rise, remember we faught a 2 year war for Segwit and finally won after the UASF, and thus with Segwit an entirely new Bitcoin protocol was born, allowing all k8nds of new things.

2. Bitcoin 0.16.0 is about to launch which is called The Segwit Wallet, and Coinbase is implementing Segwit as lLocal Bitcoins and Bitstamp already have. This will be an impetus for other wallets to follow suit or be left behind (yep you Mycelium)

3. Segwit allows Lightning. He more devs working with the the Segwit infrastructure  drastically encourages Lightning understanding and Lightning development.

4. Lightning has already done multi path atomic swaps, and other emergent properties will emerge.

5. If Segwit let price run so high, just imagine what will happen with Lightning. Just the name Lightning sells itself, but the tech is just incredible, not to mention it’s a smart contract which the media will figure out can be associated to Mimble Wimble and ever ICO could be done on the Bitcoin protocol.

6. Developers working out of a labor of love, which is not really found in any other coin. Sure there are paid devs in the bitcoin ecosystem but nowhere else has so many people working wothout pay out of sheer passion.

7. The recent price surge has creat3d a surge of job growth in the entire sector and we are a few months away from not being able to lose those high pay high skill jobs and tertiary jobs....maybe we already have such a big impact on the job market and overal economy that any wise govt will support this change or be left behind.

8.In history no one has ever lost money by holding long enough, the price always has come back higher than the previous high.

9. Devs are becoming revered with almost rock star status. Resumes are not required when a dev can show work from GitHub on the Bitcoin protocol, thus devs are being drawn into this, for personal ideals and extrinsic motivators.

I know the Bitcoin scene is huge in Montreal but where are the meetups?


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