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Attention and incentives · 7 Jan 2026

Effort and quality do not guarantee anything anymore. And that realisation fits this space perfectly.

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This is not giving up. Our project will be fine.

But I am losing hope here.

And I am losing hope in what I am doing.

This is my own reflection. A loud way of thinking.

The real problem is that I do not want to accept this reality.

Effort and quality do not guarantee anything anymore. And that realisation fits this space perfectly.

I am seriously thinking about pulling back my energy, my knowledge, my fight, and my time here and just becoming part of the same bullshit instead.

140 people opened the expanded version of the last article I wrote. Maybe 20 made it to the end. That alone shows how useless my work is in this environment.

What actually attracts attention is not substance.
Not effort. Not truth. Not long, consistent work.

It is only a rising market cap. Even if there is absolutely nothing behind it. No product. No vision. No integrity. No responsibility.

That is the brutal reality for me.

People here do not follow ideas anymore.

If they are afraid of getting rugged, they are happy to take your token check or your warning.
And then they are gone.

They do not follow builders.
They do not help builders.
They do not follow conviction.

They follow green numbers. They chase hype. They worship the illusion of easy money.
They come to you, drain you for information, take whatever they can extract, and disappear the second someone else shouts louder buzzwords into the void.

The moment something else starts pumping, loyalty collapses.
Principles disappear.
Suddenly everyone has a new belief, a new narrative, a new excuse.

Nothing will change.

This space has turned into a casino. Not by accident. By user choice and by active pushing from those who profit from it.

And it will remain one.

You can build. You can explain. You can warn. You can educate. You can deliver value every single day.

It does not matter. As long as the number goes up, everything else is irrelevant.

And do not tell me I lack conviction. Not to me.

I started from 0. Everything here.

We have been delivering for 2 years. Consistently. High quality. Real knowledge. Practical, tangible, uncomfortable truths. Not marketing fluff. Not empty promises. Real work.

But apparently none of that matters here.

And at this point, that leaves only 3 possibilities:
-Either I am doing everything wrong.
-Or there is simply no real demand for substance at all.
-Or what I am doing is bullshit.

All I should have done was throw a few dollars into the chart, push the price, manufacture momentum, and suddenly everyone would listen and call it a movement.

That is the truth and I am aware of it.

No crying in the casino.

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Thanks for the many replies. I read all of them, even the ones from people who think I’m full of shit 😉

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I will continue to block disrespectful people who post hateful and unconstructive comments or who shill their stuff unsolicited. I will especially block those who have never built anything themselves and who spread bullshit about builders or only show up to tear others down. Bye bye.

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