When Failure Becomes Ordinary

When Failure Becomes Ordinary

There's a particular kind of exhaustion settling into the bones of our civilization right now. Not the exhaustion of working too hard, but ...

Money is important, but it's just one type of information with special properties. Content - ideas, discoveries, creative works, evidence, records - is the substrate of everything else: Money flows from proven value creation Laws depend on verified facts Science builds on verified observations Justice requires verified evidence Reputation reflects verified behavior If Bitcoin at 0.4% causes this much disruption to ONE domain (finance), what happens when verification infrastructure exists for ALL domains? I've spec'd out SatSwap - a modification of IPFS BitSwap that trades file fragments for Bitcoin/Lightning payment invoices instead of favor-tracking. The specification is documented, the economic model is strong, and this could do for content verification what Bitcoin did for money. I need someone who can build a proof-of-concept that proves the core idea works. In exchange: co-founder equity in whatever emerges from this, your name on foundational infrastructure, and the satisfaction of building verification infrastructure for the future of human civilization. Interested?

When a civilization’s primary representation of capital loses value over time, it forces all coordination into the present; reversing that reopens the future as a place where structure, trust, and resilience can exist.

People find the debt-cage at the suffering they can't ignore. They escape it at the moment they're willing to build differently.