lumannnn

For me, one of the biggest value points of Ash lies in removing the boilerplate without locking you in.

The devs of Ash cleverly use Elixir itself and other big names of the Elixir eco system. By doing that, they have created a framework that helps you moving more quickly as you don't have to write the same code over and over again (i.e. remove boilerplate) while still giving you the flexibility to escape if something out of the box doesn't fit right away (that's because of how Elixir works and how they just re-use the other big names, e.g. Ecto, Absinthe,...).

I've tried to write about all of this here if you are interested in reading more:

https://www.lukasender.at/ash-the-hidden-champion-of-low-cod...

In the end, it's hard to only write and read about this. You can only "feel" how things change when you actually work with it.

The learning curve is a little step at first, though (in my opinion). But the docs got a lot better over time.

All in all, I'm still happy with how things turned out and would use it again for future projects.

"The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Sasa Juric"

Really one of the best presentations to show what you may get out of adopting Elixir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE

It's a so called "layer 2" network (Bitcoin network being the layer 1).

Everyone can run a Lightning Network Node on e.g. a RaspberryPi.

One opens "Channels" to other Nodes. Multiple nodes and channels build a network and can transfer Bitcoin/Satoshis for relatively little costs from A to B.

Network nodes can charge a fee for routing payments (or data more generally speaking).

There are different implementations of a Lightning Network node. LND is probably the most used one today. But there is also C-Lightning.

Once adoption and implementation spreads, you'll realize you can open multiple channels with one on-chain transaction.

This is an evolving space and scaling happens already.

But sure, you can stick to the traditional monetary system where only a select few control the rules.

You are free to adopt Bitcoin. No one will force you :)

Likewise, not everyone needs to create their own Visa or MasterCard. They may have their MySQL/PostgreSQL implementation where they scale and allow for many TX/s. But they don't settle all these transactions in real time. That's also done on a different, slower layer.

Number of nodes is rising, number of wallets is rising, number of hash-power is rising.

Also, please look into the "Lightning Network". It's the second layer on top of Bitcoin and that's where the whole ecosystem scales (in terms of numbers of transactions per second). Cheap, scalable and fast transactions.

Adoption is happening in many places.

- "Bitcoin & Renewable Energy Transition - Bitcoin Incentivizes Green Energy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SX1eCqwd3Q

- "Can Bitcoin Mining Save the Environment? with Troy Cross" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFYKq5Qe1Bs

- "This Machine Greens" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7dMVcVWgc