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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?
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My experience crossing paths with Mircea Popescu was immortalized on his blog here: http://trilema.com/2015/a-sjsqd-walks-into-a-pub/ An absolutely fascinating character and despite whatever immense controversy his attitude, presence, ideas and personality may have shown and caused people to immensely dislike him, he spoke his own truth and was an embodiment of the "real internet" and not the very "strictly corporate" personalities that have since taken over cryptocurrency and the internet. Very sad that he passed away. I met many people like Mircea (albeit generally less controversial) through my travels on the internet who also spoke their own truth - it is a great loss to the world that IRC and self-hosted blogs/websites have largely been replaced by Discord/X/Twitter and highly corporate, slickly branded shit which is devoid of actual soul.
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The hardest thing seems to be to build something and find the end result doesn't actually work. You can personally realize and admit to failure and ask hard questions of others who are unable to answer them... One of the reasons I got into web3 and DAOs was because of transparency and accessibility - so many great minds get swallowed up by the tech industry and work in silence. Being able to openly talk about failure is valuable but it seems that few people want to embrace it and have kept that mindset from the start which means never being able to meaningfully pause, take stock of things and change course so as to avoid complete failure in the first place. The biggest decision is whether to tell the story of failure so the world can learn from the experience or to walk away for your own sake... If you can tell a story of failure it means you give back value to the world and provide a free guide on how someone else might avoid failure.
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