I am a believer in Natural Law. I am a believer in Karma. I am a believer in Humans. I am a believer in innovation. I am a believer in 'open source development'. And I am a believer in what we are building here, community, friendship, fun and games.
I have certain set of skills, skills developed over a 'long' career in crypto. Recently this has made me somewhat sought-after. Join our team, give us some advice. Advice I used to give somewhat freely, now gets me invited into a discord role. This has rarely, but with increasing frequency, created some friction in my life. I am still figuring it all out.
One of the things that I am not good at is throwing shade. I hate it, I prefer to just walk away. Privately I share concerns and criticisms that I don't post publically. Anyone who has had a disagreement with me privately probably knows that I do not generally take that 'on chain' or into public. I do however often have strong opinions about things.
There was some issue recently with @the-singularity - nothing to write home about, I tried to help and left a few days later. @enginewitty was there, he knows what happened, @bitcoinman and @thecrazygm too. Not every disagreement needs to be made public - I truly believe this.
Reputation is everything.
I run the INCOME synergy Fund. The founding principle is helping small, active projects - I have developed quite a nice list of best practices and have had some really nice successes by 'helping' my investments grow instead of just buying tokens and waiting.
Sometimes people listen to my advice, sometimes they don't. In my experience it usually goes better for projects to stand on the shoulders of those who have come before and avoid reinventing the wheel.
I believe in both numbers and people, but numbers really matter to me, they can make the difference between success and failure. @stickupboys has criticized me before about this, mostly privately but recently a bit publically. It is what it is, everyone can speak their mind. If I really 'only' cared about numbers, his comments would not hurt as much, methinks.
Reputation is earned, by each one of us. In a 'trustless' environment, reputation is enormously valuable. Its hard to earn and easy to lose.
Psyber-X Team
I was brought onto the PsyberX team in October of 2021, because I had reached out to jboss offering advice around that time. This is literally what I do, will do and always have done.
I have never had an official title, I have been advisor, business development and even project management. I was just trying to help. The project had not managed its money well, it had not managed the development of hive-engine integration well, and there were already integration problems appearing on the horizon.
Some of my simple suggestions appeared to be implemented. But as I dove into the development side, several of my recommendations were not heeded. I had recommended rebuilding the hive-engine NFTs with the NFTmart team. This was rejected by jboss and klye, they would 'build through' the problems.
Its been another year at least. Maybe they are close to building through these problems?
But from that point, I stepped back once again to "advisor".
There have always been plenty of good ideas to go around. I still, even now, have a lot of hope for the project, the 'universe' that is being built, albeit slowly. When there was a chance at developing on Myria - instead of putting more things on the list of already swamped Klye, I handled it with thecrazygm, launching the @psybersects account in the process. This account is completely controlled by me. We also took the opportunity to launch MYRIANODE token, which has gone really well.
@psybersects has funds in the Swap.Hive:LVL pool. These funds will remain there unless I publically announce further. I will be locking this down for now. Most of these funds came from ETH sales on Myria of Psyber-NFT passes.
DBLN
At some point, Serfdom and Sorcery was launched. There was pushback, there always has been - this is the role of advisor. But really, its another game in the 'universe', and we were all waiting for Klye to 'build-through' all the problems that we had known about from the beginning. Decks soon. We still are believing this to this day.
At some point there was a sale of something, and I was chosen to run the 'buyback fund'. I might have insisted. One issue from the beginning has been the management of funds, and I am a big believer that corporate pools of money, if they are not raided, can be a constant and continuous boon to any project.
I was selected to run the buyback fund, which I still do, on @multi.polar account. I was given 9500 swap.hive. This never was 50% of the sales as was announced. I pushed back, but these are the funds I got to manage, and manage them I have.
When jboss needed to raid the buyback fund to pay V-tec, I made him send me the equivalent of DBLN. He bought them back he told me. I still run this buyback fund. These funds will continue to support the project.
Serfdom and Sorcery continues to undergo development, there is a new developer and he is working magic. Many people like the game, some don't. Like any game, its not for everyone, but some people like this style of game and I believe it continues to have potential. Time will tell.
PsyberX
PsyberX as a game was made, but not connected to HIVE. We need PsyberDecks to do that, stuck in development hell due in no small part to decisions that were made more than 2 years ago to make the hive-engine NFTs without following the best practices.
This is sad, but reality. Is it all a scam? I don't think so, haven't thought so for two years. Have there been red flags? Yes. Not of the games, or the intentions of people to build games. The biggest red flag for me has been jboss's inability to manage his personal finances.
From what I understand he lives in California with a huge cost of living. I recommended several times he move to Colombia and be able to live comfortably on WAY LESS money. He hasn't, but who can fault him for that - I have made this same recommendation to many and no one yet has taken me up on the offer.
Personally, I think the NFT image usage rights issue is silly and a non-starter. I think the marcus wahl case is a silly disagreement between client and developer, from what I know (which isn't much), its completely the client's fault as I have personally seen several deliverables for that job. These things don't really worry me.
But I am awfully tired of lackluster or nonexistent rebuttles as defense, endlessly slow development, new things to sell and always needing more money. These things weigh on me, even more than a simple comment from @stickupboys about how I don't care about people. I do care, a lot.
Retiring from 'the team'.
I feel a bit silly saying this, since the only things I do now - managing @psybersects and @multi.polar - I will still be doing. But nonetheless, I have a lot of other things to work on, a lot of other places to put my precious time and energy. This position is not paid, I don't make any money - I just get a fancy discord role. I don't control any keys (other than the ones mentioned in this post), and as such I have very limited influence in how money is managed or spent.
I wish the project the best. I have some personal funds invested, and I don't plan to dump. I believe in the universe they are building, despite the people involved being flawed human beings. We are all flawed. I have flaws as well, although I try to structure my life to take advantage of my strengths and have people covering for my weaknesses.
I don't think its a scam, although I do think building stuff is hard. Its even harder if you depend on what you are building for income, and even harder if you need that income to be up to first-world, california, most expensive places in the world to live, levels.
I want it to work, but I need to clarify my role. I'm a buyback fund manager, nothing more. I freely give advice, when I have time, because I manage a fund based on the principles of Synergy.
There is among the community right now appearing some blowback for the PsyberX project. It is not my intention to add to this, if you think it is then re-read this post; I hope to bring these claims back down to reality. This post is really my attempt at an honest and open defense of the project, before I throw in the towel.
It has come to my attention that there is an intention to find a way to 'nail this project to the wall'. I don't know what will come of it, maybe the situation is worse than I ever imagined. Or maybe it is exactly like I suspected, still suspect, imperfect humans doing their best to do something interesting.
But neither can I stand in the way of it. People will investigate what they will, and come to conclusions with or without information. In my eyes, the challenges faced by PsyberX are not that different from the challenges faced by many projects, even well respected projects, in our beloved HIVE community. But I too am fallible, if for no other reason than I want to believe in people.