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fate speaks in riddles

[eichen @Eichenkundiger]

good morning europe

[Judith Dada @DadaJudith]

Most of Europe has not yet absorbed what AI is about to do to us. The few who have are not saying it loudly enough.

We wrote Europe 2031: a five-year scenario of the continent's slide into irrelevance, how AI is driving it, and what can still be done to change course.

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@crypto_condom @niccruzpatane this is only true for the old m3‘s

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@jacksondahl @kylascan

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@kylascan „Spectacle is the solution, because seriousness requires accountability and accountability requires consequences and consequences require institutions that are willing to enforce them. That just doesn’t seem to exist at the moment.“

so true! great article

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@aerugoettinea milady

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the more i think about it the more obvi it seems that if you believe in an ai post-scarcity world, the best thing you can do today is to look inwards and find out who you really are

if there is abundance everywhere arnd you,
you are left only with yourself

prepare for it today

[eichen @Eichenkundiger]

and so it came to pass that those who trafficked in shadows saw their craft made vulgar. when all embraced the dark, none could claim mastery. defeated by their own teachings, they whispered of quitting the realm.

believe in something

[Evanss6 @Evan_ss6]

https://t.co/zUG0vs7hG7

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san benedetto w espresso >>>>

[goodalexander @goodalexander]

Europeans are like “we could win the whole reserve currency thing or we could go to le beach for the summer”

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if everything is part of the plan, nothing can be held to account

and over time, 4D chess often turns out to be just reacting

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@setanimals I think, in reality, sadly, this isn't that unpopular

men REALLY fear women w rights ....

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the beauty about selling airdrops is that if they are good you will fomo in back higher

[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

culture starts at the top and I want to build a culture that rewards and celebrates long term actors

if you want to sell, do it. covering taxes and paying bills are particularly good reasons to do so.

but we should not confuse selling with supporting and participating. the goal is to play long term games with long term people.

[eichen @Eichenkundiger]

I think what ethereum managed to do (and still does) for me and many of my friends is that it lets us dream.

While making money is fun, there is a bigger picture that I cant fully grasp but can feel. I have never felt similarly about any other project. feeling seems prevalent.

[_gabrielShapir0 @lex_node]

A lot of good people are crashing out on and off the timeline right now, some who got rich from crypto, some who never made it after years in the industry (both versions are represented in the screenshots below). For all the ones you see on the timeline, there are even more in my private chats and DMs--some who would really surprise you in terms of their prominence in the industry and how much $ they probably have made and/or could still make in the industry, but are having an existential crisis over it because at this point they feel like they are not actually doing anything good for the world anymore.

Ironically just at the point of finally being 'legalized' and going mainstream, the industry feels like it's succumbed almost completely to unsustainable zero-sum financial nihilism and bloodthirsty competition instead of taking the opportunity to build toward cypherpunk ideals or really any other ideals than Moloch/Mammon/getting rich. For myself, I've done 'okay' financially in crypto but dramatically underperformed most of the other paths that were open to me (both pre-crypto paths and more cynical paths within crypto). And this is despite not totally lacking in business or investment acumen and staying active in looking for opportunities in all dimensions--just never really managed to hit anything big. So I can relate a lot to ZachXBT and some others like him where you just really wonder why you have been doing this when it's neither the most lucrative path you could've taken nor feels like something idealistically satisfying.

I was here for cypherpunk stuff and it's really weird to me to see guys like ZachXBT (even though he blocked me probably for calling him self-righteous or something) and Roman Storm get such little support from a very wealthy & degen community, as well as true cypherpunk / privacy projects mostly get ignored/maligned in the space as uninvestable while basically centralized structured finance products labeled "DeFi" as well as even dumber/more unsustainable stuff get shilled & supported nonstop.

It also really sucks to see Ethereum just descend into the totally ineffectual mess that it is on the social layer today. It's the one non-Bitcoin ecosystem where a lot of the design decisions felt like they were maximizing for decentralization and censorship resistance and social revolution, but somehow the leadership refuses to fully embrace these sorts of narratives, and is even outright hostile to the more 'money' narratives and thus has ended up alienating literally everyone in crypto, both the money-degen financial nihilists and the cypherpunks, while going off on a bunch of out-of-touch 'public goods' larks that even include funding a total no-coiner and Warrenite like Angela Walch.

All that being said, I just still find this stuff more intellectually interesting to work on than anything else I could be doing, and I think probably most of you should too, and should stick around. I see real (and still largely underappreciated) opportunity in lex cybernetica & in the power of this tech to catalyze radical changes within the most change-resistant industry on earth--law. I also consider Echo and Legion (I helped a lot to incubate the latter) as examples of this with real pmf already. And I see major potential in the tech itself as 'can't be evil' technology and know that the more nihilism accelerates, the closer we are to pmf for 'can't be evil tech as well, despite few really caring at the moment.

So, in the immortal phrase--"I'm not fucking leaving". I am sticking this out no matter what, even as I descend into middle age without health insurance or other security net and shrinking options for alternative careers if I ever wanted to bail.

But I do feel kind of tribeless within the broader crypto community. Like Eric, with ETH having become a lulcow as an asset and the most prominent Ethereum 'leaders' just seeming totally clueless on the issues, I'm no longer really ETH-aligned and felt like a semi-outsider in Ethereum even on the best of days anyway. I can see some cool stuff in Solana-land but I just really do not relate to most of their goals at all--I cannot excited about the mission of building faster rails for Wall Street running nodes in data centers and giving privileged internet lines to a specific blockchain system b/c the guy with the internet infra company also holds a lot of SOL. Or frankly jumping on the timeline every day to just see endless fairly disingenuous oppositional marketing and bragging and flexing. I can see the virtues of their tech and the talent it takes to build it, but this ethos is just not enough to motivate me.

I guess MetaLeX, cybernetic law, cybernetic economy, cyber/acc (repped by @cyberfund and @Lomashuk ) are my communities now, and I'll help them on whatever chains they're on and try my best to get this recognized as one of the major tribes/cults of crypto and to build it much bigger, much faster. Many nations started with a diaspora. Probably many of you should do the same--instead of trying to be "Ethereum" or "Solana" you should focus in on what you truly care about and are uniquely positioned to make happen in the space, and join or refine that tribe or launch that tribe. Yes, that means the tribe must have its own coins for people to rally around. At this point, no "chain" will ever be big enough or coherent enough for most really meaningful missions that could change the world--you need to join a real movement that's trying to change things. Ironically this is what "believe in something" really means--not baghold some stupid memecoin because you "believe" its number will go up, but believe in a real cause and buy & hold the tokens that express & embody that cause and hope to win with all your friends and colleagues because you *deserved* it because you actually *achieved something*.

Also, you all need to start listening to your 'better angels'. Have that conversation with your potential competitor, help out people who are doing good shit even if there's no angle in it for you. Stop letting lawyers and their NDAs and VCs and their fear of 'value leakage' ruin everything and block collaboration. That's up to founders and not anyone else. I've seen so much ridiculous shit on the legal side behind the scene where founders let themselves totally be run by lawyers and VCs despite talking a big cypherpunk game on socials--and you know who you are.

In other words--Wake the fuck up and *really* believe in something, some mission to try to make the world really better, before it's too late, or crypto will die or turn into something even more sinister than what it was trying to replace. I'm still gonna be here trying to break through with something.

[Chris Burniske @cburniske]

the ticker is $TIA

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dua lipa radical optimism vs peter thiel human agency

earth girls vs tech bros

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crypto credit cards becoming the next tiktok

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me right after cheating on ETH by selling it for some SOL

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one of the things we take too much for granted
we have the best UX ever

[Solid Intel 📡 @solidintel_x]

INTEL: It has now been 90 minutes since the market opened, and users at Schwab, Vanguard, Fidelity, Ameritrade, and E-Trade still cannot access their accounts

[eichen @Eichenkundiger]

people log into twitter every day to post 10 tweets about their favourite ticker up 100x and they never had a bag because they were afraid to buy into the initial 30% pump

real talk

[eichen @Eichenkundiger]

@Taaa_raa thank you :)

[eichen @Eichenkundiger]

have written my first article (I forgot to bring a book to the beach).

about bear market, current events, my beliefs & how not to turn too crazy. lmk what you think

https://t.co/IOonlDHGXY

[eichen @Eichenkundiger]

lower attention spans
increased environmental awareness
increased online activity
increased entrepreneurial spirit

my ETH thesis