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"The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology."
the common drag in crypto, generally, is the short-term predator mentality capitalizing on a coveted prize which many others were accruing for "attention/momentum/belief" or mass in the abstract. mechanically, a publicly traded corporation answers to shareholders, and the stock market has been glacial firesale for a few generations, so their horizon is only frothy commons in need of shovel stands.
actual dedication to craft is arduous, sometimes fatalistically successive. as John Adams put it, "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." the inverse of this is the cutthroat snobbiness which currently broadcasts anthropocentric cope.
ultimately, every scene needs rejuvenated ardor, selfless love for the recreation, sometimes bitterly recognizing unfit, facile "leadership".
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