Oceans of Wisdom

and if so, great, I have a busy life, I could just watch and enjoy and support from the sidelines

and was planning to do this

looking to see if anyone else understood this

in NFT twitter

and I spent 6 months lurking

I just knew that it could be done

i did not know *exactly* how it could be done

and they still kindof do

and literally every single crypto OG (through my work I know almost all of them personally) looked at me like I had lost my mind

and I said "ah, oh shit, ha ha ha ha ha, we can do it all now, this is the way"

Jan 2021 to summer 2021, I played around with NFTs enough

if I arbitrarily said we are going to i dunno post our vacation days as hashes in OP_RETURN in BTC using a domain specific language to do so, sure you can literally do it, but it is stupid, it is worse in every way than "write them to MySQL"

but "how to do it in a way that a rational person or organization would voluntarily want to do it"

and to be clear, i do not mean "could I not figure out how to FORCE it in"

and i could not figure out how to do it

wanting to do more decentralization stuff

here i was hyper decentralization maxi

1 year later neither the fairly large audience nor I had any ideas

so we are using BTC to do more things

and I challenge the audience to bring me ideas by next year

and the nature of the speech was something like "i love BTC, I use it for payments in my organizations (can accept and send) though of course few people actually do this" but in any case I obviously want to use it to do many more things because everything else we do is using Oracle

i gave a speech

was somewhere back in 2017

the true true true root of 6529

people like that make better long-term decisions and if you make better long term decisions and have the fortitude to stick with them, then it is hard for the short-term profit maximizers to compete

i think he is in it for the love of the game

btw side note I think this is something bullish re vitalik too

he wants to go to mars, he is in it for the love of the game

elon for example has good and bad characteristics but he is very clearly not working nonstop because wants to make more money

most people in it for the money can't push through, will get 'outcompeted" by people who are in it for the love of the game

it is a combination of a lot of correct ideas and hard work and ability to take pain

making things work is very hard

I think it generally does not work

to put it more succinctly if you go around saying "I want to make money, now I just need an idea"

it ends up following ideas that have value

and very broadly speaking in a open enough economy

that it is an information processing system

i think elon's view of money is kindof in a similar direction

you need to make sure that when all is said and done the money math is ok otherwise you end up broke and the thing you want to do does not happen

just like "you need to make sure the thing you are doing is legal"

I view finance and accounting as a functional tool like for example "legal"

and in that context "do the economics go around and work" is kindof like a tool

I do not start by thinking "how can I make money", I start by thinking "can this be better"

fwiw the way i generally work is I wake up go around my day and think "wait, why isn't this like this?" or "why isn't this possible?" or "why does this work this way, seems wrong?" literally all that is going through my head at all times and then some small subset of those things I work on because due to circumstances, time, resources, interest etc I think it makes sense

RDS right now ;)

on the list

yes amazingly there are a lot of healthcare people in the maxis

lolololololol - the decentralized metaverse never sleeps ;)

on the short-term road map now

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