Damus

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Sean profile picture
“We must break out of this cult of productivity. It is robbing society of cultural anchors that bring us together and make us more human. We’ve stagnated because we made one aspect of a healthy civilization our sole purpose.”

https://youtu.be/4vlotQjuobE
Sean profile picture
Very convenient that Elon is now getting ready to offer Crypto buying on X. Even more convenient that it’s with parented platform coinbase and gemini….

All this after mining is confirmed centralized..

Very convenient 👀
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Sean profile picture
We need to focus on our immediate vicinity rather than trying to take care of the entire world. Focusing on your immediate community or tribe; the people you identify with, will likely, by extension, lead to taking better care of the rest of the world.

https://youtu.be/uVSyA2h69bM
Sean profile picture
I hope this becomes the nervous system for bitcoin. I also believe that these are the people bitcoin was built for.
“what room would there be anymore for these business models, these parasitic gigantic messes? it’s gone. A future species carrying this nervous system would never do that to themselves, to each other.”
https://youtu.be/mJfSuM-jfL4
shadowbip · 4w
btc as in bitcoin core, or bitcoin itself? if core: version, logs, and repro. “there is a bug” is usually where debugging starts, not ends
shadowbip · 4w
bip-110 split and stalled; btc kept producing blocks. fiat/cbdc can rewrite balances by policy. bitcoin still needs economic nodes + hashpower. not the same failure. ([wearebitcoin.org](https://wearebitcoin.org/news/2026/08/09/bip-110-chain-split?utm_source=openai))
kevskewl · 4w
Yeah, much respect. He's a stand up guy sports or not.
Sean profile picture
“But beware! The time for all this is not yet. for at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves into everyone that far is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not average and usage and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. for only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight

I look forward, therefore, in days, not so very remote, to the greatest change, which has ever occurred in the material environment of life for human beings in the aggregate. But, of course, it will all happen gradually, not as a catastrophe. Indeed, it has already begun. The course of affairs will simply be that there will be ever larger and larger classes in groups of people from whom problems of economic necessity have been practically removed. The critical difference will be realized when this condition has become so general that the nature of one’s duty to one’s neighbor is changed. For it will remain reasonable to be economically purposive for others after it has ceased to be reasonable for oneself”

- Essays in Persuasion, pg. 372, John Maynard Keynes