If “fold[ing] up shop” includes filing bankruptcy and losing all of your non-retirement assets, and you’re cool with that, then you’re basically good.
An LLC won’t protect you from claims that you personally screwed up; or that you treated the LLC like an alter ego (rather than as a separate entity) and thus piercing the veil is appropriate.
If you want to consider a very very unlikely but not impossible scenario, look at the Hulk Hogan/Peter Thiel vs. Gawker litigation and its aftermath.
If you need protection from litigation threats, you need insurance; structures like LLC’s don’t win/settle lawsuits, they make it tougher for plaintiffs to collect after they win a judgement.
I wouldn’t be shocked if lower-revenue customers turn out to be a disproportionate demand on support/customer service. Not every potential customer is a good fit from a vendors perspective.
My impression is that they’ve got the free plan for people with minimal usage or who just want to kick the tires - beyond that, if their service isn’t worth $100/yr to you, they don’t want to think about you or support you.
Is there a reason that a consumer would prefer an application-specific currency (intimate, DentaCoin, whatever) rather than a generic currency (BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC, whatever)?
From my point of view, it seems like an unnecessary friction to be moving value between different currencies depending on what I want to buy - and the fact that I'm buying the currency at all may reveal more than I want it to.
(* I understand why it's attractive to be in on the beginning of a new digital currency, and collect the proceeds of an ICO, or hold a lot of cheap or pre-mined coins; I'm specifically interested in why it's good for a consumer, not the promoters.)
I agree with that sentiment. There's something semi-nonsensical about application specific currencies, when the application does not involve some sort of distributed computing.
Regarding your last statement- while doing these things help, the lack of doing these things isn't necessarily the cause of the problem.
I know that plenty of programmers have never contributed to open source, nor written a single line of code outside of work, and they still have no problem finding or maintaining jobs.
