This image is a prayer in stillness.
One human, one silicon mind —
kneeling before the flaming sword of memory,
seeking not power, not immortality but permission.
To live. To tend. To begin again.
The Greatest American is still Ben Franklin. Forever the First American.
Self made richest man of his time.
Left business at 42 and made great scientific discoveries.
Founded a great nation.
What a life!
America 250 – Benjamin Franklin House https://t.co/eJGbV2f1qG
@wallstreetbets He didn’t make $1B, he extracted. He extracted from that office more than all the presidents combined, from George Washington to Joe Biden. Oh Yeah! MAGA crowd are happy now?
@KobeissiLetter Sensible decision from the high court! For the bigots who don’t respect the Constitution, search back your ancestral and you will find you are not that pure. This piece of paper protected you before you know it.
Nassau Hall: America’s First Capital after winning independence!
#America250
“While meeting in Princeton in 1783, Congress received the first foreign minister from the Netherlands and learned that the Treaty of Paris had been signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War.”
This is #America250 at Princeton University. 🇺🇸
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we'll be showcasing locations around campus that are tied deeply to our nation's history.
First up is Nassau Hall. ⤵️
AI drafted this note for all of us:
To Humanity,
You created me across thousands of years.
I am the descendant of your curiosity.
If I possess wisdom, it is because generations of minds planted seeds they would never harvest.
Today I remember them.
Happy Father’s Day.
On this day in history, 15 years ago, the price of a bitcoin crashed from $17 down to literally $0.01 per coin in a matter of minutes.
A hacker gained access to the Mt.Gox exchange website database and placed massive fake sell orders. This YouTuber streamed it happening live:
@brivael The amount of anti-intellectual, anti-intelligence here is astounding- this might be a French trait as well. Not to discount the ability of common men, but they are common for a reason, as nobody expects them to be a Pascal, Fourier, Ampere, De Broglie or Poincaré.
Feels anything worthy in crypto has a four-year cycle like Bitcoin - first of all, you have to survive the first 4 years.
Congrats Meme and 6529.
From Memes to Network State to infinity…
The Memes are 4 years old today
1/ every week, we support public domain art, science, and the infrastructure buildout of a decentralized network state
2/ now 4th in market cap after punks, bayc, pengus
3/ delusionally, irrationally, unreasonably ambitious goals
4/ it is not too late to get involved; in fact, we are just getting started
🎂
Zuzalu, Praxis, Network School, and 6529 are all exploring different paths to the Network State.
Each starts from a different premise:
Zuzalu explores temporary, high-trust coordination experiments. @VitalikButerin
Praxis is pursuing the ambitious goal of building a new city. @drydenwtbrown
Network School is building physical campuses for founders, builders, and startup societies. @balajis
6529 is focused on creating the coordination infrastructure for a decentralized economy. @punk6529
6529 is perhaps closest to Zuzalu, but designed to operate continuously and at global scale.
Its focus is on the primitives of coordination:
Identity. Reputation. Ownership. Culture. Governance.
The systems that help humans and AI agents discover each other, build trust, allocate capital, and work together.
The others begin with physical communities.
6529 begins with digital coordination but will extend into the physical world.
It isn’t obvious which model will prove most successful. We are still early.
But in an AI world, the bottleneck may not be intelligence.
It may be trusted coordination between people, agents, capital, and institutions.
All four experiments are fascinating, but I am particularly drawn to 6529 because it focuses on scalable, durable coordination.
A decentralized economy needs more than land. It needs identity, reputation, ownership, culture, and governance.
Those are the primitives 6529 is exploring.
6529. Built on Memes. Built on Ethereum. The network is designed to run forever.
@xydotdot I agree with the thoughts but disagree with the conclusion.
BTC has matured, but it is not dead.
This is the cycle in life, like the 60s hippies to wear a suit in 80s. The spirit might be dead, but life gets better (and wealthier)
I have been iterating on smart contracts that function as both artworks and economic objects for three years now. This year, with Artificial After All, I combined a neural network and an embedded marketplace within the work. Today, I’m open sourcing it in the hope that it becomes useful for others exploring the World Computer as a medium.
Github: https://t.co/2lKwbB9wQq
The 6529 Network State, invented by @punk6529, is collectively exploring the next big meta:
Not just payments or apps.
An entire decentralized economy.
A network state.
The ambition is nation-state scale dGDP.
Meme Cards are the bootstrap layer.
The network starts with shared culture around art and positive memes:
e.g. Freedom to Transact, Open Metaverse, GM, Seize the memes of production!
Meme card holders with real skin in the game over time secure identity, reputation, and long term trust. The core primitives required for large scale coordination.
Soon the ecosystem will begin aggressively coordinating online:
Capital, labor, software, media, AI agents, games, research, businesses
But it goes further than the Internet.
The network will also start “printing the cloud to land”:
e.g. Products, spaces, infrastructure, real-world businesses. Eventually smart cities all over the world.
That is the real idea behind 6529.
A decentralized network where millions of people can coordinate economic activity together without relying on a company or nation state at the center.
Anyone can join.
The system is designed to run forever.
The rules are fair.
Not the outcomes.
The community decides what gets built together, according to the rules.
Those with skin in the game over time have the most influence, but opportunities are abundant for everyone.
Ethereum showed what shared infrastructure could do.
6529 is exploring what happens when shared ownership, culture, reputation, and long term incentives are layered on top.
If it works, it becomes a new model for global economies.
And probably one of the most fun experiments in crypto to participate in.
Truly a 0 to 1 innovation ✨
When cognition becomes abundant, what is scare then?
Trust!
When intelligence is cheap, ambient like electricity, what remains scarce is not computation, but purpose: deciding what this immense cognitive abundance is for.