Bitcoin still is an experiment:
The First Guy Through the Wall Always Gets Bloody....
I know youve taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall he always gets bloody. Always. Its the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds, its threatening the game. But really what its threatening is their livelihoods.Its threatening their jobs. Its threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether its the government or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins have their hands on the switch they go batshit crazy. Anyone who is not tearing their team right now and rebuilding it, using your model, theyre dinosaurs
Boston Red Sox owner John Henry from the movie Moneyball.
The quote above is from the highly recommended movie Moneyball about Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane.
Quote on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Jjf1O4jMqeM?t=2m34s"Building Something New is easier than Changing Something Old.
So many companies are on the brink of extinction. The worse thing is that they know they are. Even with this, institutionalised by bureacracy, politics and nest feathering in order to maintain the status quo and safeguard their positions in the organisation they block change and they block innovators and change agents.
The worst of them do this in full knowledge that they will sink their own ship and sometimes contribute to sinking entire industries."
"I love this (almost entirely) true story. The reason I love it is that it exposes the real issues blocking business transformation and even industry transformation. "
https://medium.com/thethursdaythought/the-first-guy-through-the-wall-always-gets-bloody-873fcf7eb832