The story of my life is like the story of a little boy named Billy Breaker stuck inside an Arnold Attic. The origin of my life can be traced back to my birth in 1985 in Oregon. I grew up in a ghetto. I was homeschooled. I lived in Hawaii. I taught English in Vietnam.

12:21 PM
Discord talking to a founder of Bear Shares. I was talking to him the last few days or so.
Competing against Hive Blog, Steemit, Dream Shares, Blurt World, etc, is tough. I thought you looked familiar. I know Bear Shares since I was on it. I was trying to compete with Facebook with a website called Mea Omnia back in 2011. I know it can be hard. So, can Bear Shares compete? Is Bear Shares special enough, unique enough, different enough? Well, Bear Shares does not have to be different or very different. It is good there are these different websites or blockchains. Making money and expanding is one thing. I like to keep backups and copies of my blog on different sites. So, I like to post on different blockchains if I can and I don't totally care if each one is the same or different except that each one really is a blockchain and can keep a backup of my work forever.
So, like I said, making money and expanding a company is important.
But at the same time, what I want in a blockchain like Hive, Steemit, etc, is the ability to run a node or server or witness or Bitcoin Miner on different computers. I want as many miners or witnesses for a blockchain, the more the better.
I have not studied blockchain code yet and don't know how much hard drive space (gigabytes of storage), RAM, CPU, Internet bandwidth, cache, bus speeds on the motherboard, etc, that is required to run a blockchain node, a witness server, a Bitcoin miner, etc. I guess it depends on the blockchain, the network, the code, the structure, the system, the protocols.
I would compare blockchain to Bit Torrent, IPFS, file sharing programs. I know blockchain may be different in some ways. But I like that many people can use Bit Torrent for sharing files. So, in some ways, each user is his or her own node.
There is one social media network website called Mastodon and I don't know exactly what it is. Well, I don't think it is blockchain but I think the system is perhaps decentralized and might be similar to IPFS or other things.
I would try to start with a bare minimum, a foundation, for Bear Shares, as a starting point, before trying to reach out to more and more investors, etc, to expand.
But I don't really know how much money it costs to run Bear Shares. I know that my old website would sometimes cost hundreds of dollars a year or more. I've been studying some of this the past few years, like how to run a website, how much money and everything else that is required.
I would want Bear Shares to find ways to survive even if there were only a few witnesses running nodes for it. I would want that to be the bare minimum.
That would be the foundation as a starting point or as a base level.
I would try to pitch my ideas for Bear Shares or new ideas on Hive Blog, Steemit, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
I would try to reach out to witnesses on Steemit, Hive Blog, Blurt, etc, and encourage them to run Bear Share nodes or at least to start out a conversation with them.
I see Bear Shares is online and that is good.
At the moment, I don't know any investors. But in some ways, witnesses are like investors meaning in some ways the more witnesses you have the more the investors. And in other ways, each user on Bear Share is or can be like an investor too. The more people use Bear Shares, the more it can show up in Google search results. And therefore, as it grows that way, then more and more people begin to invest into it. And so in some ways, that might be a way to gain investors assuming that each user can be a form of an investor or if each witness can be like an investor or better yet if each user could be like a witness like Mastodon or maybe Discord or Bit Torrent or IPFS.

08:25 PM
Witnesses and app developers are potential investors if you're looking for nodes or money. Also, I've made some money via auto-voting on Steemit and Hive Blog.

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