Change can often seem like it comes out of nowhere. Yet, rarely is it really so sudden. Often, change is something that goes on quietly, unnoticed sometimes for years. The explosion of change usually only happens when someone notices what has been going on and tries to stop it. Take the American Revolution. The change in American attitudes towards the British Empire didn’t suddenly start in 1776, it had been slowly going on for decades before the king finally noticed and tried to change something that had already happened.
The data and decentralization movement is like that. Things have been moving in the direction of decentralization for at least a decade now, probably longer. The changes have been happening all around us, yet it doesn’t seem readily apparent to many outside the movement. Decentralization hasn’t burst into the mainstream yet, it’s still waiting for that flurry of opposition that will serve as the galvanizing force that thrusts the movement out into the open.
That also makes it difficult for those already in the movement, both for organizations like TARTLE that try to grow it and the people who sign up for the early services and buy the early projects. The downsides of being at the forefront are easy to see. You are always taking a risk that the organization will never get off the ground, or the product may never materialize. And if it does, you get to have the…experience of helping work out all the kinks that everyone who hops on the bandwagon later on will never even know about. Early adopting is risky and often frustrating. However, the benefits can be far greater than any risk.
How so? Let’s take the more mercenary reason first – return on investment. If you are getting in on the ground floor of a company and it takes off, you get to reap a lot of financial reward for that. Think of the people that first bought Apple stock back in the day. Perhaps the best recent example of this is Bitcoin. Years ago, there were just a few people willing to take a chance on this crazy concept known as cryptocurrency. Almost everyone back then was saying that Bitcoin would never amount to anything and that it was totally worthless. Well, the first people who chose not to listen risked a few dollars and as of this writing, it is currently worth almost $56,000 per coin. At eight cents each back in 2010, if someone spent just $10 then and held onto their bitcoin, that person would now be a multimillionaire. That’s one heck of a return.
Beyond mere financial concerns, the early adopter gets to help drive the change forward, to take an idea and make it a reality. A TARTLE early adopter gets to join us in promoting decentralization and respecting individual data rights. This is a movement that will change the world, in many ways it already has. The more people who follow the lead of the earliest adopters the better able we will be to attract others to the cause, sellers as well as buyers. Yes, it can be a frustrating process in the meantime. We recognize that there will likely be many thousands of sellers before there are more than a handful of buyers. After all, the buyers need to have enough data sets available to buy them in the first place. In the meantime, you get to be part of the community that will shape the data sharing world for the foreseeable future, showing the buyers what kinds of things they should be looking for and helping to entice them to buy data through TARTLE.
The revolution does take time, but take heart in the fact that it is happening, one seller, one buyer at a time.
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Change can often seem like it comes out of nowhere. Yet, rarely is it really so sudden. Often, change is something that goes on quietly, unnoticed sometimes for years. The explosion of change usually only happens when someone notices what has been going on and tries to stop it.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to TARTLE-Cast, with your hosts, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby, where humanity steps into the future and source data defines the path.
Jason Rigby (00:23):
Alex.
Alexander McCaig (00:24):
Jason.
Jason Rigby (00:25):
I want to talk about something real quick before we get into this. So, you were just looking at St. Petersburg.
Alexander McCaig (00:28):
Yeah, Russia.
Jason Rigby (00:28):
Which is absolutely amazing, and we get a lot of people from the "USSR" ...
Alexander McCaig (00:33):
Yeah, shout out to Russia.
Jason Rigby (00:34):
... on looking at organically-
Alexander McCaig (00:36):
The USSR ...
Jason Rigby (00:36):
Isn't there a song for that? Who sang that, Bruce Springsteen?
Alexander McCaig (00:42):
Yeah, but those days are over.
Jason Rigby (00:44):
I know, I know. That's why I was just like ... It was like in 1986-
Alexander McCaig (00:47):
"Ah, the good old days of the Cold War."
Jason Rigby (00:48):
"Let's talk about East Germany."
Alexander McCaig (00:49):
Yeah. "The good old days of the Cold War."
Jason Rigby (00:52):
No, but whenever we look at anything that has to do with Russia and their artistic ability, I just want to give a shout out. I was telling you off-air, Germany, Berlin, you look at all these different areas, and Norway, and you start seeing this. But the artistic ability of ... I'm just so drawn to the art that's coming out of Russia right now.
Alexander McCaig (01:15):
I know. But art transcends borders. It can be interpreted so many different ways depending on who the person is observing it. It's a great way to bring people together. It's a great way to challenge things, challenge the status quo. But an artist, for the most of them, great masterpieces, they weren't just in a second. Even, just give the Sistine Chapel, right? Or any sort of marble sculpture. That thing took time. Did it not?
Jason Rigby (01:42):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (01:43):
It took someone to look at that artist and be like, "I will commission you to do this, and I know it's going to be awhile. But I'll be patient in that process, because the outcome of this is going to be phenomenal, something that unifies." That's what's so cool about that art, and from a deep level of respect for that art, the Russians, they love it. They're all about it. There's a huge pinpoint of creativity, and almost this edginess that translates very well.
Jason Rigby (02:16):
I know where you're going with this with TARTLE, but I want to throw this in there.
Alexander McCaig (02:19):
Of course you do.
Jason Rigby (02:21):
I've been to Moscow, and when you go to Moscow, everything is gray, and ... Thanks to Stalin. Everything is gray, and just bleak, and all the buildings kind of look industrialized the same. Did that environment, just that gray, bleak environment, did that environment make these people so creative?
Alexander McCaig (02:42):
No.
Jason Rigby (02:43):
Or, what is in these beautiful people to make such amazing art?
Alexander McCaig (02:50):
It's those thoughts, it's those emotions, and that world of Moscow was not representative of what the Russian people really are. The Russian people are a strong culture, okay? They're a critical-thinking culture. They are beautiful people, in a real sense. They have really great genetics, and now they've had the chance where you've moved out of this communist, gray world, and, "We want to now say that we can have our art, our culture, our creativity shine through these other places." It can be seen, you just have to look for it.
Jason Rigby (03:34):
So, whenever you take something that's not representative of what they view as reality now, but it's not the true reality ... Yeah, it may look gray and bleak, and kind of, "Eh," like our world looks now with everything that's going on. And then you look at what's truly in the heart and the intent of the people. And then you get these people collectively coming together and making this amazing art. Whenever we look at TARTLE, and we look at people signing up and early adopters, and we've had people say, "Hey, we haven't got any money yet. We're kind of waiting. What's going on?" And we send them an email to let people know, "What is an early adopter?"
Alexander McCaig (04:11):
I don't know if this is a good metaphor, but I'll use it. Most paintings, famous paintings, are only famous after the artist dies. It took a lot of time for people to see that value. Now, in a digital world, we can accelerate how people see that value much faster than any time before. So, if you're an early adopter on TARTLE, you're a part of that rich, unifying culture that is trying to gear this world towards a brighter future. Focusing on these causes, economically uplifting ourselves, taking responsibility for things, and being patient.
Alexander McCaig (04:49):
Because as more of us come together as these early adopters, we're showing these resource holders, these data buyers, that we want to take a stance for this. This is what we want our future to look like. You have to show these people that you care about your data, that you really, truly know at the core that you've put in your blood, sweat, and tears into your thoughts and how you interact and everything you do day-in and day-out, and there's value to it. And you hold that value, and that they should ask you for that value.
Alexander McCaig (05:19):
But they won't pay attention as quick as you want them to, unless we all come together, unless we share with other people the good on this mission that is trying to happen, with targeting these Big Seven items that face humanity right now. That early adopter is moving towards being that data champion. They are patient, and they understand the value of collective unity, of us shining bright internally regardless of how sterile and bland our environment around us may look.
Alexander McCaig (05:49):
But we have to come together, because us as a unifying force of our data, taking that sort of revolutionary step will make these other people wake up and be like, "You know what? Let's start paying these people," and that option is there. But you've got to be that patient early adopter that really sees the future as much as we do. You have to feel it internally. Not witness it in a cold, gray world, but see it internally, look deep down about what you want, what you really care about, and share those things you care about. Prove to people that you have the responsibility to take hold of what is yours.
Jason Rigby (06:22):
Yeah, number four on our Big Seven is global peace. When we look at TARTLE, and we look at that being no borders ... People are anonymous on the system. So ...
Alexander McCaig (06:33):
It's a borderless, anonymous system.
Jason Rigby (06:35):
So, it's just data, which is agnostic. But I want to get into TARTLE and global peace, because I think this is important for being an early adopter. Whenever we begin to have influence in a sense of a decentralized world, and we have a system of something that everybody is using, and that's their data, when we bring that together, what begins to happen?
Alexander McCaig (07:02):
What you have is, you have a collective effort defining their future. For so long, the world has lacked this sort of decentralization. But it's becoming decentralized, and that forces us as human beings to be responsible for ourselves and everything we interact with. We have, for many, many years let a very selective amount of people decide for us what our future looks like, and that has not gone well. We've given up that power. We've given up that path. We have not come together collectively to focus on things that are really important.
Alexander McCaig (07:36):
Now, through data, through this tool, we can define our peace. We can define our future. We can come together borderless in a unifying effort of all of our thoughts, all of our data, to say, "This is how we define ourselves, and this is how we define what a world we see in the future." We want you, the resource holders, to respect our vision, to respect our needs and wants, because there are seven billion of us. Seven billion, and only a couple hundred thousand of you.
Alexander McCaig (08:09):
So, we need you to wake up and pay attention to the revolution that's happening here with these early adopters, what we're doing with our data. Because we want a peaceful world. We want a truthful world, and that will happen when we openly share between one another and begin to understand who we are at that deep, core level. Much like our Russian friends understand who they are, and then express that creatively through art. Everybody needs to have that sort of expression. They have a right to that expression, and that will be respected through their data.
Jason Rigby (08:36):
When we look at the industrial 4.0 ... That's what everyone's talking about, this new world that we're coming into, this new decentralized world. At the forefront of it all, the catalyst-
Alexander McCaig (08:48):
For all of it.
Jason Rigby (08:49):
The fuel, let's say the fuel. It's not steam, it's not electricity, it's not nuclear power. The energy, what fuels the 4.0 industrial revolution, what's fueling this world is data.
Alexander McCaig (09:01):
Yeah, and that data is fueled by one person. You. You're the one that drives that future. All these resource holders, all these people at these Davos conferences, whatever, these big think tanks, they're thinking about the future. But what needs to be respected is that you're the one that really is driving it. You're behind the wheel. They're just analyzing where that path is going, and then talking about it.
Alexander McCaig (09:24):
So, why don't you have them talk a new story? Be that early adopter. I want you to write the news. I want you to write your own history book, and not have a written for you. I want all of these people to be those data champions and say, "This is our world. This is what we're going to stand for. This is my data, and this is how we're going to change things for the better. Hands-down, this is how we want to evolve."
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Thank you for listening to TARTLE-Cast with your hosts, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby, where humanity steps into the future, and source data defines the path. What's your data worth?
