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Yo. I'd make a video. This might sound like I'm in a helicopter. I do have Elena in the background. You might hear a loud orange cat give her input from time to time. And just kind of a different video. I know, um, a lot of people are going through a rough time right now. I understand it. L understands it. You know, nobody's immune to that, and everyone's got their problems. But right now, I understand the crypto market's really been brutal. There's been a lot of change going on in the world, a lot of wars, a lot of, you know, we got AI coming out of nowhere, a lot of things changing, right? and with all the opportunity, I also see all the struggle, because there's nothing that's going to fry you more. There's nothing that's going to get under that house more and make you either die or thrive than being in the struggle amidst the opportunity, right? When you can see it, you can feel it, you can taste it, but you can't yet grab it, and you're struggling. I know that all too well. And I understand that there's a lot of people who are going through that. Because with Hive, there's a lot of soldiers out there. There's a lot of good people. A lot of strong, smart, and they're in it for the mission. They know what it's about. And a lot of them are unsung heroes. A lot of Hive community out there has had my back, has been there for me, has gone out of their way. Like, these are good people that you don't just find. You don't just find these type of people. And it makes me feel a type of way when I see these type of people who are going through or who are struggling, these good people. And with what we have, I understand, there's a lot going on. Hives not perfect. The community is very strong and the opportunity is stronger than ever. And it's not, I've always said, it's not about focusing on the price. It's about focusing on the mission. The mission has always been a parallel economy, a way to have control over your communication, over your future. As we progress to the Internet age, decentralization, the powers that be have only gotten stronger and stronger and stronger, and the foothold is now we are close to the point of no return. You can't play with fire this long and not get burned. And I feel it now. You always have yin and yang. Period. There's always a balance, even to the words we create. You create a word called centralized to describe a behavioral pattern. That behavioral pattern is going to have an opposite. Light always has dark. There's always two sides of the coin. If there is a behavioral centralization, there's going to be a behavioral decentralization no matter what, it has to exist. And I see the manifestation. Now, the light might be real bright and the dark might be real small or vice versa. The dark might be real big and the light. But you can't have one without the other. There's going to be some of it somewhere. There might be imbalance. But the universe always brings back balance naturally. It's like water filling a cup. It's always going to find its level. Always. It always does that. Good eventually crumbles and bad eventually crumbles in turns the good and good eventually crumbles in turns the bad. There's always something. There's always some way. You know, the animal dies the ground, eats it, then the other animal eats the ground. Like, this shit's always always going to be what you get in the end. And what I'm trying to get at is, I see the emergence, finally, of the light that's been so dim for so long, that decentralization with... With crypto, blockchain, this technology, this is pivotal. This is step one. Without this, we got nothing. We're fucked. It is very important. Now, it's not the all-end-all be -all by any means. It is the foundation, the framework, the connection. It is the step one. The step two is that what you can do with blockchain is now incentivize and articulate and organize off-chain and do things. that you couldn't, if you didn't have the blockchain, have governance and all that. And now you can have off-chain. With off-chain, that goes into the new world, AI, everything else. And with crypto at first, the biggest problem, what was the biggest problem? You already know, people weren't running their own infrastructure. It was hard to get people to run their own infrastructure. I took that to another level, making it easy, making it social, one of the most distributed technologies in the world. But it wasn't enough in terms of getting enough people running it, that hardware. Because this is all led to something, right? You got into blockchain thinking, oh, this is led to the blockchain, and I'll be on. But no, no, no, then you start peeking to the off chain. What you can do off-chain, what we identified as the Speed Network, that's just a name. Off-chain is this whole other realm of what this technology does. and unlocks, and it's a stepping stone, it's blockchain to off-chain, off-chain to AI. That is what this is all about. The AI is close to the end game, of what, the pinnacle of everything, of economies, ascending value, of governance, of reput- everything ties into AI, and our collective brain, our knowledge, where we get our answers, where we store our data, the transparency, all of that is... These companies are going to be the biggest loss leaders in the world, but the most powerful. Make Facebook like a little fiddle compared to an electric guitar. You have no idea how much more powerful these things are than what we have seen before. If you thought Twitter and Facebook and all that were these big behemic lives, you have nothing. on a crooked centralized AI that has the world by the boss. You have nothing. You have no idea how powerful this shit is, and how if we don't have a countermeasure to this, we are screwed. It was people, oh, we don't have a countermeasure to, like, centralized dollars were screwed. Oh, if we don't have a countermeasure to, censorship, we're screwed. It's like, all of that is true, and it's stepping stones, too. If we don't have a countermeasure to collective intelligence, we are absolutely, it's not just a two-tier system. Because everyone right now, yeah, there's information out there that people are privileged to, that we don't have. But there is a chance for us to dig it out and leaks and all that. But once there's a true two-tier intelligence, because there already is, there's an elite intelligence out there, the AIs, that you don't. know and you won't see. But there's still a middle tier now. There's a middle class. And whatever a middle class, you have the opportunity to go from middle class to rise above, to make something incredible. When you wipe out the middle class, you just have poverty and rich, it makes it almost impossible. Very difficult to go from that bottom to that top. It's just so difficult to get there. That's why the middle class has always been to target no matter what. System, economy, world you're in, the middle class has always been the biggest threat to those who want power. The middle class are the ones that can spring above. And right now the middle class has AI, but people keep bitching to degrading, the things are going to rise, their rates are getting lower, like that's just the crumbs to come. They build it on the shoulders of everyone's data. Once they don't need you anymore, of course they don't even care what you think. You get the slow, burnt-out model while the rich get more and more intelligence. This is where we're headed. It's not a conspiracy theory. This is what's happening. That's the end game. And what we absolutely need is a countermeasure. And the Hive community has always been a pivot. has always been a cornerstone for me in terms of if some technology comes out, I feel like I have a band of brothers who are going to run some nodes and get some things done. And with the new AI, what I was getting at about the other side of the coin, I see decentralization rising up because everyone's running their own local models now. Everyone's running local models. Everyone's getting into that infrastructure game on the local infrastructure. I've never seen anything like it, and it's the most amazing thing I've ever seen, because these are the people that can join us, that really solidify what this decentralized system can become. And that's, you know, what I've been building with the AI, bring your own model type system where all these people can now come together. You have an incentive system with Hive to incentivize and connect and get people cohesive to actually be uniformed with this AI and putting data on it and coming together and organizing. And I just wanted to give a shout out, because I understand there's a lot of people out there. that deserve credit that they don't get, and they don't go seeking it. They don't go seeking it. I can't name all the names, but you got an Eddie, you got Enrique, you got a meno, you got a lot of people out there that punch way above, that do so much work. And there's so many out there, and I can keep naming names and names for days and days, but you have to understand what we have here. a group of people who are really solid and really make a difference. And we can't let just these basic hard times, because I look out right now and I see it's a little bit cloudy. And if I was to live in that cloudy forever, of course, I'm going to have a bad outlook. But one of the things that I've learned is when you're going through hard times, especially in the midst of an opportunity, Here we are at the pinnacle of it all, the crossroads, what are we going to do, and then fighting the inner battles. And one thing I've found, I can't speak for everybody because I'm not everybody, but I can't speak on things that I haven't done, because that would be fraud. I can tell you what I've lived and how I've gotten through it. A lot of people don't understand. I got... I've had deep mental anguish in my entire life. When I was five years old, since, five years old, I wake up for like the world's ended. My close friends, family, they notice about me. I don't talk about this shit. I had some, you call autism, you call 80, I had all that shit. Like, I didn't speak until I was five. I had some really rough, rough early childhood trauma. A lot of shit, man. I don't get into what I don't talk about, and everyone has their own problems. But what I've gotten through, What I've figured out, because there's going to be days where you just can't do it. You feel like I got to stay in bed, I'm going to whatever. But there's a magic power. And the thing I can tell you that will kickstart this stronger and everything is working out. Because that is the first step to when you're tired and you're like, no, we're going to do it. That's the first step of you controlling your mind. Because believe it or not, you control your mind. And the mind controls the body. That's how it works. Now, the mind can trick you and act like it's in control and say, no, this is what we're going to do, and we're going to be lazy, we're not going to get anything done, or you can find that override switch. You have a fucking switch in you. Everyone does. There's a switch in there, and you can say, fuck it, I'm flipping it on. I don't care how I feel today. A feeling is a cloud. It's raining. Oh, boo-hoo. I don't care. I'm still working. What I've found is you work out, that gets you in control of your mind. Not your body, your mind. Because if you can tell your, if you can get your mind to tell your body, this is what we're going to do, and this is how we're going to do it, that's the first step. Then it's going to come those days where you don't feel like it. And this is where depression and anxiety. can either engulf you and destroy you, because I've been destroyed. I've been broken where you had to pick your pieces up, and I actually believe it's better to break completely than crack. Because when you crack, you didn't give it your all. You kind of clenched. You kind of shielded yourself, right? And you live with that crack, and you kind of hump. But when you are willing to put it all on the line, and you fucking break. Every fucking piece, and you have to put it back together. That's where you find out what you're fucking made out of. That's where you find out if you're really in it or you're not. What are you really made out of? Who are you? What are you? You think you have a name. You think you know all this about you, but you don't know until your backs against the wall, and you're picking up your own pieces, and you don't know what's going to happen, and you don't know what tomorrow brings. That's when you find out what it's all about. And it's not about running from that. And it's not about, oh, I only want to get cracked. No, you don't. You want to go through it all. You want to feel the fucking burn. You want to feel and ingrain that shit in your memory. And you know what? The strongest thing you can do in that moment, this is your changing moment. This is what's going to change you forever. It's changed me to a point where the switch can't be flipped. I didn't flip it. I broke it. I broke the damn thing, it's always on. There's no off now. And how you instill that is on that moment. When you're on your knees, and you're picking up the pieces, and you got your fucking hammer in the other hand, and you're working, and you're clinking, and you're fucking clanking, and it's raining, and it's thunder, and you're sick, and you don't feel like it, and no one believes in you, and you're the one putting your own pieces on, duct-taping your rib, gluing your fucking ear on, you're doing everything you fucking can. But you're still grinding. You're still... doing it. And when you wake up that next day and you look back and you say, man, I went through it yesterday, but look at the work I got done. I don't have two times the work today. I'm not in a hole today. I'm on a hill. Do you see? It's in those moments when you put the hammer down and you start focusing on the pieces and crying and getting in yourself and saying, I can't do it. That's when you wake up the next day and you're in a hole. And when you're in a hole, you're like, oh, I'm in a hole. And you wake up the next day, and the hole is bigger, and the hole is bigger. And you get into this mind fuck, and that's where people get lost, and there's no return, and they break the switch, but in the opposite way. They live cracked forever until they roll over. Those are your options. I've been through there. I understand I've had to do it multiple times. It's scary. It's not fun. But it's needed. And it's not optional. Not if you want to really get your true self. So it's during those moments when you press on, regardless of what the fuck the world's throwing at you. Because the funny thing about the universe is, a lot of people don't know, is you can do it. You can just do it. You can just fucking do it. That hole you created in your mind is a whole you created in your mind. It's gone. You're on a flat surface now. Pick the fucking hammer up, and tomorrow you'll be on a hill. It's that quick. You don't need years of this and that. You can do it right now. You can flip the switch right now. You hear me, L agrees. You can flip the fucking switch right now. And forever, keep waking up on a hill, and then you'll be on a mountain. Then you'll be fucking in the clouds. It doesn't matter if it's snow and if it's rain. It becomes, it doesn't, you enjoy it because it's different. You enjoy the process so much that if something's challenging, you don't look at it as a challenge, you look at it as more data input, a way to grow stronger, a way to get better. So I'm telling you, there's times where you just, your mind, it's just going to play tricks on you, your body's going to feel like it's giving up on you, and what do you do? What do you do then? You go to the switch. Because at the end of the day, it's you. It's not your mind, it's not your body, it's you. It doesn't matter how you feel. It's matter what you do. It doesn't matter how you feel, it matters what you do. And what you do day in and day out is what's going to make the difference. Because it doesn't rain forever, it doesn't snow forever, it's not always going to be cold and chilly. There's going to be a day when the sun starts shining. And if you've been putting into fucking work that whole time, you can finally hit a sprint and you'll go to the next levels you never see. And that's why a lot of people don't ever see that side of themselves because they quit in the dark. They quit in the cold. And when the sun comes, they don't even know. But there's a difference for those who've been grinding through it all, you can spot the sunshine from a mile away, and boy, are you going to take care of it, boy, you're going to do everything you can when you have the opportunity, because that's what the opportunity is. It's the sunshine that's going to come. So we can look at this, we can look at that, or we can say, hey, we got a band of brothers, we got a group of people, we're distributed, we got a lot of shit done, we got problems, but we can overcome them, we can keep on building. And that's what I've been doing day in, day out. This is the web version of DAI, by the way. It's fucking ridiculous. I spent 10 hours a day every single day. You give somebody like me the ability to build, and I'm going to build you something you've never fucking seen before. This has Speed Network, everything riled, wrapped up all into this perfect, beautiful bow, constantly being worked on. It's going to be out very, very soon. It's going to make a very big difference. It's going to be a big opportunity for everybody involved, and it is really going to also help Hive. So, you know, but the power is not in my hand. The power is in this community. It's time to wake up. Count our blessings. Take advantage of the opportunity we have now. Gather the people who are real and really want to do something, and let's go forward. Because the opportunity is now, brothers. We'll kill here. Cheers, peace.