Just returned from the London Blockchain Conference, and I can't stop thinking about the massive disconnect I witnessed. On one side, we have the veterans - people who've been in Bitcoin for years, exhausted and cynical. "It's dead," they say. "It's never going to work."
And then there are the newcomers - wide-eyed, energized, and seeing possibilities everywhere.
Both are missing something critical.
What struck me most wasn't about trading or price predictions. It was about consulting. Not everyone has capital, technical skills, or time - the usual entrepreneurship prerequisites. But right now, there's an enormous opportunity for anyone who can understand BRC 100 and Metanet well enough to explain their business applications.
I met teenagers skipping college to pursue this path. They're not becoming engineers - they're becoming consultants who can:
The key innovation enabling this is the vendor-neutral wallet infrastructure. Previously, when wallet services like Money Button shut down, users faced complex recovery processes. The BRC 100 standard solves this through interoperability - if one provider closes, your assets remain accessible through the standardized protocol.
We're essentially in 1992 internet years - the early Netscape browser days. Just as few people understood what "browsing the internet" meant then, we're at a similar stage with "browsing Bitcoin."
This won't make anyone rich overnight. But remember what followed the browser revolution? Two decades of exponential growth and opportunity.
For entrepreneurs looking to capitalize:
The most successful people won't be chasing quick gains on speculative tokens but building infrastructure and services for Bitcoin's next evolution phase.
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