daos

cryptocurrency

I dearly miss the great art of conversation over protocols like IRC where people gathered around actual watering holes that required skill and social bonds to maintain (IRC required either hosting a server or using complex bots and other things to make shit work - any idiot can set up a Discord server) and would be populated by people who would openly challenge your ideas, call you an idiot and sign off by saying "Nobody cares. Kill yourself." before banning you.

This to be followed up by one of the grandmasters of Bitcoin saying they thought you were "absolutely endearing" - I feel a great loss when I look at the current state of web3 but maybe danielpbarron was right when he said: "Yes! Stay on irc 24/7! Forget the forum -- forget reddit; those are distractions."

In the context of DAOs - likewise to the informal IRC "powerhouse" community I am describing in the below conversation - when I was a young kid, I got into a very private IRC network filled with hardcore cypherpunks and hackers who were because of passion. Many of them went on to hold extremely high level positions and did stuff like reverse engineering and investigating malware like Stuxnet.

One problem with "web3"/cryptocurrency is that it has been become very, very "strictly corporate" - how or who is planning on building a place for the very best people in DAOs which has actual soul and activity from the best of the best and isn't build with the idea of becoming a microtransaction haven with trickle incentive programs that just end up with extreme sybil attacks and attracting low-value and noisy people?

Community Builder. I'm wandering and wondering. Interested in decentralized, cool & creative stuff. Worked on a DAO for 5 years and looking for something new.

I think it’s happening right here. What makes you believe otherwise?