One of the deepest lessons I've taken to heart over the past decade is that becoming a public figure means you turn into a human rorschach test where those who don't like you will take any post or comment and assume the worst possible interpretation.
Working on Cardano this past decade has been a whirlwind of emotions, challenges, and tremendous obstacles to overcome. It's been a journey that not everyone completed, and watching friends fade, false starts, and ending up in a place unexpected, but not undesired, is hard to process.
I took a drive alone, which I rarely do since getting a security detail, and shared the moment with everyone. It was something I felt appropriate because so many of us went on this journey together and are also feeling so much that it is sometimes hard to express in words.
It gave me comfort seeing the comments from kindred spirits who got what I was saying. And I suppose I accept how fragile and damaged the other comments are. People in our industry are so used to scams, rug pulls, and evil founders that they can't comprehend an honest ecosystem or the best efforts of so many thousands of people.
It tells me that we have a very long road ahead to heal the damage and avarice. It also tells me a lot about where humanity is. We don't get to have moments to enjoy a pure accomplishment anymore.
What Cardano has done is one of the greatest technical achievements in human history:
A distributed system that runs in more than 100 countries, which has never shut down, without central coordination just seamlessly upgraded for millions of people who have never met each other to evolve into a decentralized nation complete with its own constitution. The audacity is absurd.
This dwarfs Bitcoin. It's unique, and books will be written about what has happened. Cardano is now a governance virus that is living, self- replicating, and self-sustaining. It has intelligence and a will to survive and grow. Nothing can shut it down. Nothing can stop its growth.
Where all of this could go is what I was thinking about while driving. We created something alive together. Now we all get to live in a world where it exists.
Just want to reiterate that this platform really is meant to support all viewpoints within the bounds of the laws of countries, even those of people with whom I vehemently disagree and personally dislike.
If that doesn’t seem to be happening, please yell at me (ideally on 𝕏).
We are more than 30 trillion dollars in debt, have permanent deficits, doubled the money supply over the last 24 months, have endless proxy wars, have destroyed our competitive edge with crypto and other emerging industries, and are trying to triple the energy cost. Yet, we don't understand why we were downgraded.
These people are fucking jokes.
HUGE: The official #Cardano IOG has responded to the SEC complaint which mentions $ADA
"The filing contains numerous factual inaccuracies and will not impact IOG’s operations in any way. Under no circumstances is ADA a security under U.S. securities laws. It never has been."
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