Although it may sound like it, it's not exactly ecology-friendly. But I wish you luck anyway!

I remember there was one more language (besides Solidity and Bitcoin script) for writing Bitcoin smart contracts. They often referred to it when Solidity came. Can't for the life of me recall the name or even find it anywhere but it was some sort of 3-letter acronym. Does anyone know?

What would you say is the main reason that it's harder to do international business than a local one (speaking of digital business era)?

I agree. There are some regulations that are good, amongst others.

From my experience these are exactly the things that doesn't really work. If you run a business in established market, you'll most likely fail regardless of whether the competition sucks or not, they were first. That's the most important thing. The only reliable business is to be first to provide some service or sell some product. The problem with a new idea evaluation is that you never know the reason why it doesn't already exist. Is it because it's a genius idea and only you can provide it, or is it because there's no demant for it.

No, they won't fight Bitcoin and cryptocurrency when it becomes a threat. They will fight it when it becomes personally beneficial for them to do so (regardless of it being a threat or not). That's the problem.

The real question is why any government needs a weapon against its own citizens.

I agree, but the problem with government regulation in general is that they don't have to answer to anyone. Some amount of regulation is generally good but who draws the line? The people who benefit from it. Banks. All kinds of institutions connected to governments. And these institutions don't want regulations to be good for people, they want regulations to be good for themselves. But this is no secret, everyone knows how these things work. That's why someone tried to create technology layer to prevent it. But technology alone can't do this. I guess our only option is to educate people. Because so far people don't care what the government is doing as long as they have enough to bring the food on the table.

What about people with ideas and strong programming backgrounds (but not exactly having that kind of money)?

Just out of curiosity, what would probably be your first choice if you were to start the project now? Would it be Go, Java, something else, ...?

What I meant was that for ordinary people wanting to use Bitcoin as a payment instrument, the $100 laptop seems overly expensive. You wouldn't pay $100 just to have your payment card working. Or maybe you would - depends on the part of the world you live in.
(I myself run several nodes, two of them are full nodes, one of them serves as a backend for LN node. But that's not how majority of people would use Bitcoin, so..)


That's another possible attack vector from governments. I would say they have a lot of options now.


You all are right, Bitcoin didn't literally promise anything. But we all had the same expectations, hadn't we?

Governments can issue regulations as they please. No doubt about it.
The promise of Bitcoin was to leave governments unable to enforce any kind of regulations using technology and decentralization.
The problem with that promise is that it is enormously expensive for consumers to run Bitcoin nodes. Therefore everyone uses third parties, there's not that many of them and there's absolutely no way for them to stay resistent to regulations.

So as I see it, there was a time when governments couldn't enforce their regulations to decentralized currency. Now they can.

What do you think? Is the Bitcoin promise broken?

There is a lot of games like this already implemented on Ethereum and other networks. The mechanism is called smart contracts and can be programmed with Solidity language (in the case of Eth). Not sure if Bitcoin blockchain in its current state is ready for it, but if it is, Miniscript would probably be the way to go.

Imho you'll probably need a website at least to give some info about how to play.

Thanks for feedback.

I'm not really looking for free ideas but rather some more or less effective ways to find them, I've edited the original post.

I'd like you to take a moment to think about the way in which you explore new opportunities in crypto world. I'm sure there's a lot of concepts one can use to bring a new business to crypto.

I'd like to open a discussion that might inspire others to look at places they never even knew existed.

Edit:
Although it may sound like it, I'm not actually looking for a concrete ideas for my own business. Sorry if I made it sound like it. What interests me (and I hope others as well) are general strategies to find one, particularly in crypto. E.g. In what way is it best to look for some emerging trends that might be good to explore?