I feel the same way. And I'm ever since disgusted by cryptocurrencies as I see a lot of people who I don't want to be associated with them being the driving force. Also, I believe in distributed ledgers, I respect Bitcoin as being the first, but it's the worst from a technical point of view and wastes tons of energy, which is getting ridiculous!
I would feel the same if I started Google - to build something cool like a powerful search engine just to sell ads. Ewww!
There are better and worse ways of making money. Crypto speculation and ads are the some of the worse, in my opinion. Charge for your service - it's the only honorable and clean thing to do. Don't be a sellout!
Shortly put, I do believe in the blockchain, I don't believe in Bitcoin, which is majorly driven by low-class Chinese speculators and exchanges!
I don't think the google founders started the company "just to sell ads".
It is just how they make money. What they DO is make the best search engine, host every video and livestream anyone on earth wants to upload, run the best email service on earth, run the best cloud office suite etc etc.
Maybe that was the only viable option back then. Today, more people are willing to pay for services and not be bothered by mostly irrelevant and annoying ads! Yet, Google isn't changing as we're the product!
I was an early adopter of Contributor, which got shot down in its original form! This speaks loudly about nowadays Google!
I would feel the same if I started Google - to build something cool like a powerful search engine just to sell ads. Ewww!
There are better and worse ways of making money. Crypto speculation and ads are the some of the worse, in my opinion. Charge for your service - it's the only honorable and clean thing to do. Don't be a sellout!
Shortly put, I do believe in the blockchain, I don't believe in Bitcoin, which is majorly driven by low-class Chinese speculators and exchanges!