The Power of Community

Last week was a monumental moment in Po.et history: we launched on Bitcoin mainnet. As I mentioned in my “Mainnet Means Maturity” post, success for Po.et is defined as growth in the usage of everything we build. We don’t want to put in artificial and unnecessary barriers to bring increased value to your applications, projects and content. We want to be extremely mindful of the incentives we create and the culture we build, while quickly modeling and exploring what those incentives should look like. Therefore, success is really measured in maturity and how much people trust the protocols and applications we’re all in charge of building through Po.et.

That time has arrived. We are here and we are excited. Now it’s time to move forward.

This is the last time you’ll hear me use the word “mainnet” as a milestone indicator. We achieved it, and now it is in the past (stamped on the Po.et Network). The future is about adoption, collaboration and utility to the protocol and that’s where 100% of the team’s efforts are going: Making blockchain, and the Po.et protocol an applicable value to the entire world.

When we set out to build Po.et, we wanted to make blockchain technology accessible and valuable to everyone. This comes from the incentives and overall motivations for the community and our partners to build the next wave of applications for the better web. Po.et is broad by design, in that we believe that the future products built on the protocol will be built outside of the core development team. Our commitment is to maintain and strengthen the foundations set for everyone to structure on top of. And now the protocol is open for you all to build upon.

It took little time for someone to get started. Just today, Bryan Isbell of the Po.et community created an Alexa hook so that anyone can vocally stamp proof of existence on the Po.et Network.

Over the next few weeks, there will be more activity and work being done on top of the protocol as well as partnerships to help fuel move this effort forward (more to come on that soon). We’re going to keep this brief, as we have a lot in the works and more to share with you soon. In the meantime, start building; we’re here to support and will be grinding away on new applications to push forward with the rest of this incredible community.

Let’s go POE.

JD