My fellow retards,
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The “something” that those few people did was mostly to take everyone around them’s stuff. Zoomed out history is just a study of demographics over time…whose kids outcompeted whose, which tribe was able to break their counterparts and subjugate them, how long such extractive and tributive relationships could be maintained before being severed or reversed…
In 2008 Satoshi gifted the world something great: To the masses who slave away in mindless cubicles, or behind some counter, servicing the elite in one way or another, Satoshi revealed an alternate path—not predicated on destroying the previous, but constructed alongside the existing system.
Perhaps in time humanity will come to say that the real genius of Satoshi was that peaceful revolution could arise once the people had opted out of exploitive legacy platforms. Satoshi understood that money is central to the way humans interact, even in situations where no money changes hands.
Money in the hands of the state will always result in a specific type of society, one comprised of elites and of servants. Everything else is an implementation detail.
Money in the hands of the people has never been tried at scale. It likely holds together in communities that align with Dunbar’s number, but beyond a certain point it falls apart. Too much trust to outsource to a faceless, unaccountable system. The working solution is to outsource that trust to a faceless, unaccountable system, then elect people to blame when it fails. Those people discovered they could appoint people to run that faceless, unaccountable system and then throw them under the bus when it fails. Brilliant. People get the marginal benefits of standardized currency, elites get to pull the levers and run it to their liking, occasionally chucking a few sacrificial lambs as the masses grow progressively more impoverished.
Bitcoin gave us the blueprint for a new way of life: Trust in maths and open source code instead of in man. Begin to do this and man’s ability to subject you to his whim fades a little. It was NEVER meant to be the endpoint, though it is a most incredible inception. Early devs knew it was not digital money alone, but the structures built atop it that would lift the yoke of financial oppression.
Bitcoin was imagined as a base layer with complex contractual systems, multisigs, global coordination games built above the bitcoin foundation. While all of it is theoretically possible, it is impractical. Building on bitcoin is just too damn hard. Bitcoin scrypt is limited in scope. It’s akin to building a social media platform from the ground up in binary. Maybe you can do it, if given hundreds of years, but by then the wheel of time will have squashed us all.
Vitalik, in the early days, was a dreamer. He imagined different systems which would serve a niche that bitcoin couldn’t. Some of his dreams we now ignore because we like to imagine him as infallible, but phon/ongod remembers…
Needless to say, V’s imagination at the time did not fit fully into the cornucopia that had been instantiated. Ethereum did give us new territory to chart—it allowed for what the early bitcointalk forum dreamers suggested would be built on bitcoin. Defi wasn’t a new idea with Ethereum—entire stacks were built to tackle this realm pre-EVM. Go research bitshares, it was ahead of Ethereum, but failed where Ethereum impressively succeeded.
Early on there were some dreamers, some people building, and there were many many many many sitting on the sidelines educating themselves and prospering from the work of these builders. If you defied the zeitgeist at the time that suggested bitcoin is just for drug dealers, you probably did very well for yourself. Phon/ongod feels similar now with the building of Phonon. This is a new stack…a new primitive. It is not ancillary, it doesn’t not try to slightly improve a previous idea, it is not some L2 fighting all the other L2s and arguing over tiny implementation details that makes one better for xyz than the other.
Phonon is groundbreaking, and at ground level. The expanse ahead is so hard to imagine because nearly everyone in the crypto space thinks only of software. Phonon Protocol takes the difficult route of leveraging hardware for security, instead of software structures and social games. Phonon gives us a private-channel payment system and it plugs into nearly all blockchains (secp256k1, secp256r1, ed25519 compatible curves). No twisted edwards curve yet–sorry monero bros.
Phonon is a primitive. That is how we must approach it. It is such early days that you, right now, can choose to sit on the sideline while history is written. Plow your field. Slave away in that cubicle. It is fine and valid to aspire to be a part of history’s bucket brigade, passing water or fiat bucks down the line ad infinitum.
Just realize that is a choice.
The spores have been planted. Something new will grow upon and around the beast of a system we now inhabit, and you can be a part of it.
Sorry to put that on you, dear retard, but now you know the truth. You can shape the system. You can write the code, you can build the memes—spread viral vitality—be part of the next great turn in human history. Get involved. Grow adoption. CREATE A FUTURE YOU WANT TO LIVE IN.
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Targets for the marketcap of PHONON DAO remain:
$1b by Q2 2022, $12b by EOY.
On the high end, $300b marketcap in 3 years.