Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is October 13th, 2025. I'm going to make a video to talk about a topic that has been near and dear to my heart and mind for a while now, and it's getting worse. I'd like to talk you through it. This will be a bit of a whiteboard video as well, and we can discuss why blockchain matters and how it can be a solution to a broader macro problem.
What is that broader macro problem? The internet is dying. We have this person right here, Cardano Mini, who says, "Clearly no one cares about Cardano after Charles drained ADA Treasury, and now ADA is the only coin down 75% from its all-time high." This particular account was created in April of 2025, has almost no followers, and nothing remarkable about it other than the fact that every time I post something, it comments on it. This is not remarkable; in fact, it’s a bot. There are thousands and thousands of these things, and it's made it almost unusable for posting on X.
If you click over here, I asked a very simple question: How many bots are on X? Current studies estimate that a significant proportion of X accounts are bots, but the exact percentage remains debated. Credible 2025 research suggests that between 45% to 64% of total accounts may be automated or bot-like, with figures peaking even higher during certain global events. That means out of 660 million total accounts on X, estimates from AI-driven analysis peg the bot-like presence roughly between 300 million to 420 million accounts as of late 2025. Essentially, humans are being pushed out, and bots are coming in, and the problem is getting worse.
In fact, the lovely guys over at Kjisat made a wonderful video on October 7th titled "AI Slop is Destroying the Internet." They lamented the fact that it takes them weeks to months to make a video, while now we have tons of videos being made by AI-generated content. You can see a lot of this in the Warhammer 40k community, with lore videos that are AI-narrated and AI-generated, pumping one out basically every day. They’re about 85% good and 15% made up or bad.
So, how do we get out of this? What’s going on here? Let’s go to the whiteboard and talk a little bit about it.
Okay, share screen window. There we go. So, we have a situation where, as AI capabilities advance, the number of bots on the internet is increasing, and we’re getting precariously close to 100%. The majority of internet users today are bots, and this is not going to stop; it’s not going to get better. AI, through Gen AI, is creating slop. Every picture you see, every video you see, every text comment you see has a better than 50% probability of being influenced or generated by AI. Over the next five years, the slop will get so bad that there’s going to be a better than 75% chance that what you see is a bot.
Case in point, this is another bot that has been pre-programmed. Every single time I make a video, there’s a collection of these bots that change their names and profiles because they get banned over time. They come in and try to drain the entire discourse. What does that mean? It means we are no longer interacting with humans.
Let’s say we have Alice. She goes online and wants to engage with some sort of event or story, and she’s looking for Bob to talk to. The probability that it’s actually Bob and not Robo Bob is going to approach zero by 2030. Effectively, the internet has become dead. There’s nothing living on it. My generation was the last to have grown up in a predominantly human experience where every person you talked to was real. The next generation will be used to never seeing actual Bob; it’s always just Robo Bob.
So, why is this relevant to the cryptocurrency space? In the cryptocurrency space, we came up with a concept called DIDs, decentralized identifiers. These DIDs allow you to assign an ID to a person, and then you can prove properties about that person, such as attributes like age and address. You can verify those, but you can also verify humanity. There are many people working on proof of humanity.
Let me show you a few that are on the list. We have proof of human from the Claros people. We wrote a paper with Hongchang way back in 2016, long before the Agentic AI revolution, which discusses proof of human. There are even some inspirations from Quantum Hosky, a company called Arctop, where it turns out your brain actually has a unique fingerprint. You can use your brain for proof of human because we’re building a brain-computer interface right now for Quantum Hosky, which allows you to play the game with your mind. This enables you to have a proof of human identifier inside the system.
A lot of people are working on this, and if you do some literature reviews for proof of human, you’ll find hundreds of papers and initiatives. There’s a technique where you can issue a DID and verify humanity. Just like that, when you look at content, you will have a marketplace for non-slop, i.e., content made by humans. Verified content made by humans can be associated with an NFT, signed with a verified proof of human origin.
What does this mean? Here’s my prediction for 2030. This is the internet: we’ll have bots plus agents, which we’ll call slop land. It’s basically the internet by and for artificial intelligence. Then you’ll have a different area, which will be human land. We’re effectively going to create an invitation-only second internet, and that invitation-only second internet will be the only place humans are allowed to go. The rest will gradually become inhospitable.
Everything is changing. If you look at ads right now, they’re made for humans, so they’re going to human land. But if the majority of traffic is bots and agents, how do you influence their behavior with Google AdSense or with meta ads or Facebook or YouTube ads? Humans aren’t there to watch them or get influenced by them; they have different search parameters, so they don’t care about the advertisement. A whole multi-trillion dollar industry is going to be disrupted because ads no longer work the way we want them to; they’re no longer made for humans.
There’s also agent-agent commerce happening. You have protocols like MCP and Ato, and they create a web of connections for payments and communication to occur for agents to autonomously perform tasks. What will happen from human land is that nobody will go to a web browser anymore. They’ll go to an agent interface, and comment is an example of this from Perplexity, but there are others being invented.
In that agent interface, they’ll tell the agent what they want. For example, they might say, "I want to buy a hat." A swarm of agents will then go into slop land, have protocols to buy stuff, and communicate with each other and services. They’ll come back with an outcome. The human will no longer venture into the internet; humanity will be gone from all of that.
What about all these social experiences? I go to X not to have 40,000 bots accost me and attack me every day. What’s the point? You know, just to be abused? Social networks don’t work well in this paradigm. The purpose of a social network is for Alice to talk to Bob, to listen to Bob’s ideas, not to talk to Robo Bob or read AI-generated slop. I want genuine stuff and genuine human connections and conversations.
Blockchain has a huge role here because it creates the ledger for humanity. It’s the place where the DIDs live, where proofs can be checked, and where NFTs verifying genuine content exist. It’s the regulating layer for all of this. At the same time, blockchain can be the ledger for AI agents. Every one of these agents sent to look for something in slop land has to be programmed to know you.
We have terms for that, like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or fine-tuning. The basic concept is that the LLM has to be parameterized in a way with enough context, either by adapting the model itself or injecting context. For example, let’s say Alice wants to buy a dress. If her favorite color is blue, she probably wants a blue dress. That’s a nice little fact, but how does the agent know that? You have to inject that in.
So, what’s the marketplace for agents that know you and agents that are subject matter experts? For example, if I want to buy a hat because I’m going to the jungle, where do I find an agent that knows a lot about hats and the jungle? I could build the world’s best hat database myself, or I could pay $2.99 to Uncle Bob’s agent shop and buy a pre-parameterized agent model specifically for hat buying. It’s the world’s best hat expert, and I can tell that magic hatbot what I want.
Now, where does that marketplace live? Is it on Microsoft servers? Is it on Google servers? What if that marketplace lives on an AI ledger? This is what people in the Near community are discussing. This is what Patrick Tobler is talking about with his venture and a few others: a place where agents live, and you can buy custom agents and settings for them. If none are tuned, you can pay bounties to tune them.
As for RAG, the more the agent knows about you, the more effective it is, but also the higher the risk. That’s why we created Midnight, a platform where you can share without sharing, keeping your personal data protected while ensuring the semantical value of the RAG for the task can be insured.
The internet is going to cleave into two. You’ll have two blockchains as the backbone of it. One will regulate agentic relationships, commercial understandings, parameterizations, tuning, and purchases. This will be the next-gen browser as the interface. The other will be the social web, which will have a humanity blockchain behind it. This will predominantly consist of NFTs and DIDs to identify people with proof of humanity and NFTs to verify that the content you’re looking at has been human-made and corrected.
You’ll have a layer of applications for truth and knowledge. For truth, prediction markets will put a value on getting something right. Who won the Super Bowl? Who won the election? What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa? You can put a prediction market on top of it. Studies show that over time, with enough participants, you get a more accurate answer for that event.
You also have veracity marketplaces and veracity bonds. I’ve mentioned these before, where if something turns out not to be true, someone loses money. I think all media should be here. For example, Cointelegraph, one of the biggest purveyors of AI slop, dishonesty, and unethical behavior, would go broke quickly if they were willing to put a million-dollar veracity bond behind their stories. Every time one of their stories turns out to be inaccurate, they’d lose money.
People will get pre-trained when they look at something and start going through an epistemological funnel. This funnel means there’s a series of tests a person will run to get to a point of belief. Instead of just looking at something and believing it at face value, each step will have a series of checks. Some checks will be automated, some economic, and some vouching-based.
You’ll ask questions like, "What are the consequences if this is wrong? Does someone lose money or gain money?" They’ll have AI check it to ensure it’s not AI-generated. They’ll look for that authenticity NFT that exists there. As you go through the funnel, you’ll reach the end and say, "Okay, now I believe it’s real." Gone is the era of seeing something with your own two eyes and therefore believing it. Now we have an epistemic funnel.
In the human web, we talk about a blockchain for humanity, a ledger for humanity. You also need tools, applications, and cognitive tools to help you organize and determine whether something is real. On the knowledge side, this is what Perplexity is effectively doing. You have a desire to learn something or acquire an idea or skill. Education used to be pre-packaged into standardized models of delivery, but that breaks actual learning.
The best way to learn is through deliberate practice, which is the best method for skill acquisition. Pre-packaged content isn’t as effective. You’ll have special-purpose agents. Just like those agents can help you buy a hat, you’ll have agents come together that you can buy for a certain amount of money. You’ll adapt the skill you want to learn or the idea you want to vet.
You’ll run through an epistemic funnel, get to a point where you want to know something, and then say, "Hey agent, I need to get all this sorted out." You’ll pay a certain fee, and the agent will do a bunch of work for you and give you back a bespoke answer that meets your level of comfort. There will be applications for truth and knowledge, and a ledger system for humanity and agents.
The backbone of the new internet will be NFTs and DIDs, and it’s really a question of whether you are human or not. The vast majority of all internet commerce is already AI slop; it’s already automated, and that’s going to continue getting worse. There will be protocols built up in this area for massive disruption.
People often ask me, "What is the next Google? How do I build the next Google?" It’s going to be an agentic commerce company. The person who figures out how Alice is going to buy that blue dress or how I’m going to buy my hat for the jungle will disrupt AdSense, and whoever figures it out at scale for a billion people will be a multi-trillion dollar company.
There’s a lot of money to be made in building applications that enforce epistemic hygiene and enable veracity bonds and prediction markets. The idea of tuning learning and having custom agents constructed to be companions for your learning is going to be a big deal. It’s an extension of a personal knowledge management system, putting economic agency and agents behind that.
This is where the world is going. The big winners of the prior generation—Meta, YouTube, Google—have to adapt and change. YouTube isn’t fun if everything on it is generated by a bot and is hollow and vacuous. What’s the point of watching a concert pianist perform an amazing piece if it’s just an AI-generated video? There’s no human skill or shared experience in that.
Social networks don’t make sense if 100% of your comments are bots. What’s the point of checking the comments section? It’s either positive or negative stuff or advertising, but it has no value to me. There’s no social connection or bond with any of these things. These companies have to change, and the good news is blockchain is front and center for all of this.
This ledger for humanity concept, this ledger for AI concept, this orchestration layer to create economic agency behind the bots is crucial. Agents will have to buy things as they search for repositories of information. The old models of content distribution, where you pay a subscription, will change. Instead, every article will have a toll price. If you want to check out a copy to summarize and bring back, you’ll have to pay a small fee.
As agents search the web, they’ll negotiate deals and haggle with other agents. That’s what the X.42 and ATA protocols are about; they create the ability to check out content as an object for agent consumption, whether to train, learn, or report back to a human with a custom report.
What’s really cool is that when you look at the core of it, you realize we’re searching for objective reality. We want to know that what we’re looking at is the actual truth. We want to ensure that the knowledge we have is not adulterated or contaminated in any way. We want to know that the person we’re talking to is real and not a bot.
Blockchains create a shared space for a synthetic objective reality. It may not actually be reality, but it’s a consensus reality. Most of human experience is a consensus reality. If you don’t believe me, think about history. How many people watching this have a firsthand account of Ulysses S. Grant, a U.S. president and great general during the Civil War? How many of you really know him? No one. Every single person that personally interacted with Grant is dead.
There’s not a single person alive today who can provide a firsthand account of him. We have historical documents and records, but those are often biased by people’s opinions. History creates a synthetic version of Grant, a representative sample of all the letters, witnesses, and firsthand accounts that were contemporary.
There’s a vigorous debate about whether Grant was an alcoholic. Some say yes, some say no. To what extent did that alcoholism impact his ability to do his job? Hard to say. If you knew him in person, you’d have a strong opinion about that. But history has lost quite a bit of that, and we can only speculate on certain things.
Another example is George Washington. Did he have an affair with Sally Fairfax? We don’t know. There are many opinions, but we really don’t know. The consensus is maybe not, but there’s definitely some possibility that it happened. History has lost that, so we don’t have George Washington anymore; we have a synthetic version of him.
History turns everything into consensus events, evolving and changing based on the revelation of new facts and knowledge. It’s a living target rather than a static one. For social systems, objective reality is the best we can get. But you need a place to put those records that is immutable, timestamped, and auditable, where you can create economic agency to get closer to objective truth. That’s effectively what blockchains do.
The internet reflects humanity. For economic reasons, we’ve turned it into a giant repository of bots and AI slop, and now we’re trying to reclaim our humanity. The value of reclaiming our humanity is in the trillions of dollars. At the end of the day, we’re a social species. We want to talk to humans, and the instruments to do that are NFTs and DIDs along with cryptographic protocols.
The place where those will live is on blockchain technology. There’s no other place for them. Otherwise, one company will control which humans get to use the internet, and I don’t think we should live in a world where one company decides your experience on the web. That doesn’t make sense to me; it’s a bad situation for everyone involved.
It’s really important that we reach a point where we have open protocols and systems, and we get AI to work for us. Those are just some thoughts on what IO’s role is
They think, "Oh, well, that's not manly. I don’t crochet, but maybe a friend of mine does, and they don’t want to be outed as a crochet person." So they want to join Crocheters Anonymous and have that conversation with other real crocheters. You see, these micro longtail communities can also create micro markets as well. It's pretty cool stuff, and I'm happy overall that we finally got to a point where we have the base technology for all of it. We just have to pull all the strings together and get it done. Blockchain is an indispensable component of all of that.
In recent events where everything got liquidated, a lot of people are running around saying the sky is falling, blockchain's done, we can't do this anymore, we're all dead. You have to stop and take a moment to ask, why are you here? Do you fundamentally understand the value proposition of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology? Honestly speaking, if you think it's just token go up, token go down, and that's your only care, you're a useless person. You really are because you've thrown away the future of humanity.
I'd like to have an internet where everybody I talk with and deal with is a human being. I'd like to have an internet where bots and agents work for me; I don't work for them. They're part of some goal that I have, whether to learn something, do something, or buy something. We work together on that goal. The only path to get there is with blockchain technology. That's it. There's no other way we can get there without inadvertently handing the keys to the entire internet to a small group of monopolies who will then use that against us when it’s to their value and convenience.
So blockchain technology exists as a way to liberate humanity. That's worth a lot more than token go up 20%, token go down 20% in a single day. But you're stuck there because you're trapped in a dream where you believe that by participating in this economy, you're going to become a millionaire and that the millions of dollars you make will somehow liberate you from the toils of day-to-day life. You'll drive a nice car, live in a great apartment or house, and have a beautiful wife. Life-changing money—that's what you believe. Somehow, someway, you'll be a better person. You'll be healthier, smarter, more handsome, and more capable.
What you'll find is that even if you somehow magically get there, it's purgatory because you don’t fundamentally change as a person. If you can’t have happiness now in your current state of affairs, money won’t magically make you better or happier. But you live in a capitalist society, so you've been sold this lie that happiness equals wealth, freedom equals wealth. No, it just means you're a slave in a slightly bigger room. You have to transcend all of that.
The whole reason this industry exists, at its core philosophically, is to liberate humanity's economic, political, and social systems. We need to have real debates about governance, synthetic reality, and ultimately the nature of wealth in modern society. That's the point of this. This is meta to all of that. Once you realize that these ups and downs in the market really don’t mean anything, what matters is whether we are making progress toward that new reality. Are we pushing in that particular direction? Are we getting it done?
Once you get there and realize that, every day is pretty happy because you feel like you have a purpose and a goal. You're liberating humanity from a very bad situation that’s driving everybody insane, robbing people of meaning and hope, destroying our day-to-day lives, relationships, and the very fabric of truth in society as a whole. Everybody's so angry all the time. Everybody's so caustic all the time. Everybody's just existing in a perpetual state of one set of outrage to the next. It's where the term "Karen" comes from. Everybody's become a Karen; they just don’t know it yet.
This is because the way the economy is structured, the way our political systems are structured, and the way we socialize with each other is bankrupt. We need a better system. You can either choose to hand it all to one faith, one governance structure, one corporation, and whatever they tell you is truth and reality, or we can liberate ourselves and give it to a different structure. Blockchains are the best invention for that because they’re decentralized, resilient, self-evolving, and ultimately allow you to solve all the problems of society. You can implement payment systems, voting systems, and have an objective reality.
I just gave you a solution to AI slop. It's the single biggest problem that every content creator on the web is thinking about. It's the single biggest problem every government is thinking about right now on the internet: how do we get back to objective reality? Everybody's going insane over the fact that now half or more of their interactions are artificial, and it’s heading to 100% by 2030. That’s bad. I just gave you a solution for it in a 30-minute video right there. That's what blockchain does. That's why we're here. That's why this exists.
When the markets go down a little bit, it's nice to remind people that there’s a floor there, and there’s going up and going down. Even just asking the question, why did this mass liquidation event happen? If we had good epistemic tools and good knowledge agents, we could create a marketplace to figure out the root cause of why that happened. Was it a flaw in the markets? Was it a flaw in centralized exchanges? Was it malicious conduct? If so, by whom? What if we could figure that out in 24 to 48 hours?
What if you could buy an insurance policy collectively that whenever these black swan events happen and destroy this kind of value, you could put one or two percent down to fund a multi-billion dollar campaign to find out who’s responsible for this, turn over all the evidence to the authorities, and throw them in prison? Would you pay it? How many people would actually manipulate the markets if they knew there’d be a global campaign to find them after they’ve done that and throw them in prison? Not many.
That’s the power of truth marketplaces. That’s the power of objective reality. That’s the power of protocols. That’s the power of getting rid of centralization and creating decentralization. That’s the power of self-corrective mechanisms.
Now, there are always going to be carnival barkers. Like the Paul Baron Network just posted a 30-second clip of me talking about Jed, as if somehow I’ve lied to people when I freely said that it depends. But the story wasn’t the de-pegging; the story was the recovery. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the time, it’s traded in a band of plus or minus 3% for over two years. When these black swan events happen, it gets knocked out, but then it recovers. That’s pretty remarkable if you think about it—a self-correcting decentralized application. It doesn’t require some sort of central bank to come in and bail people out as a lender of last resort. It has built into the algorithm some capability of doing that.
Wouldn’t you like a self-correcting governance system? Wouldn’t you like a self-correcting economic system, a self-correcting social system? If some vast piece of misinformation comes in, the system is able to resolve it quickly. If people manipulate markets, the system can discover the origin and self-correct it. If people manipulate votes, you’re able to discover that and correct the election. That is what you have at a base level in the blockchain space.
What’s nice is that with identities, when you’re talking to humans, you also have reputations. When people manipulate, violate, and lie, their social credit in the system goes down. Their reputations go to the toilet. They suddenly realize that behaving badly creates problems in a social network. They realize there are consequences to what they say and do.
You might say, "Oh, what about freedom of speech?" Of course, there’s freedom of speech, but that’s not freedom from consequences of speech. Everybody who cries for these things wants the freedom to say and do whatever they want but doesn’t realize they live in a broader society, in a broader network of interlocking people. If you go and break up a marriage by lying, or if you lie about something that creates grievous harm to somebody economically or physically—like if you’re in a movie theater and shout fire, causing a stampede—you can’t just say, "Well, yeah, you know, free society, freedom of speech." You live with the consequences of the fact that something you’ve done has harmed somebody, and there’s going to be recourse for all of that.
That’s just the way it is. That’s what a free society requires. You have the freedom to do it, but you have to accept the consequences of it. How about we make that a little bit easier to regulate? When you share information, for example, and there’s an epistemic funnel, wouldn’t you like the option of sharing unverified information that presents differently in the network versus sharing it with your reputation on it?
Think about that. In a new Facebook or new Twitter, you retweet something, but you retweet unverified. You say, "I just saw this. I don’t know if it’s real or not. I’m not vouching for it. I’m just sharing it because I want to know more about it, and I want you guys to know more about it." If it turns out to be false, okay. Well, you told us upfront you’re not vouching for it versus sharing it and saying, "I personally saw this. I’m putting my name on this. If this turns out to be false, I’m going to have a brand and reputational hit."
Would you verify that more? Let’s say there’s a very credible organization or person who shares it this way. You would look at that and say, "Okay, well, I think it might be more true." What if 5,000 people shared it and put their reputation on it? If they keep doing that and it keeps turning out to be false, you know they have a tendency to vouch for things that aren’t true. Call it the Alex Jones effect. He’s never found something he couldn’t turn into a conspiracy theory. Every now and then he gets something right, but then he gets something wrong, and it creates grievous harm and consequences to people—like in the Sandy Hook situation where the parents of the kids were called crisis actors, and they were threatened with violence after their children had been shot. He doesn’t take any accountability for it; he just says, "Well, it’s a terrible thing. We just have to move on."
For the rest of his career, we know he did that. Every time he says something, we also have to weigh it against the preponderance of these things and ask, is there some path where he can verify it more? At this point, the only path for me with Jones would be if he’s willing to put real money on the table that if he’s proven wrong, he loses that money. Everything from Infowars has to have a veracity bond behind it. It can’t be "trust me, bro." He lost that right.
The next generation of social networks will have these capabilities. They’ll have tools for the epistemic funnel, tools to share both verified and unverified information, tools to interact with agents versus humans, and tools to go anonymous and have aliases. Everybody can be a Satoshi Nakamoto if they want to be and live that way. These tools will help us get to an objectively constructed reality.
In the next ten years, all kinds of new things are coming online. We’re going to have synthetic biology. I’m personally participating in that, and some of the things we have in our labs are unbelievable. They’re magic. They’re absolute magic. You guys will see that pretty soon, and it’s going to blow people’s minds. You’ll just be like, "This can’t be reality." And it is. It blows my mind when I see it. I’m like, "Where are the cameras? This can’t be real."
By 2025 and in the next five to ten years, it’s going to be reality plus. The same goes for quantum computers. We are precariously close to actually having quantum computers at scale. If you look at IBM’s progress, Google’s progress, Microsoft’s progress, and others, someone’s going to crack it. They’re getting very close to cracking it. We’re right at that inflection point.
With things like Matter Gen, you can literally program reality with quantum computers. You’ll have a quantum internet and quantum communication. It’s pretty trippy. When you look at AI, AGI, and ASI, it’s inevitable. I’d say by about 2027 to 2032, certainly within the next ten years, we will have it, and we will be interacting with things that have at their command the totality of all knowledge of humanity and the context behind all of that. Basically, everybody gets to talk to Einstein and know all of these things.
When we look at the nanotechnology side and the material science side of things, all of that is growing exponentially. We’re gaining capabilities where we’re literally going to be able to use these next-generation materials to rebuild everything around us, including micro-robots that will be integrated into our bodies. First for therapeutic reasons and then later on for augmentation. It’s going to happen. People just want it.
You work in a place with a lot of silica or coal, and you get messed up lungs. It used to be, well, you have shredded lungs, you have asbestosis, you have coal lung—congratulations, nothing we can do for you. You might as well just retire and be on oxygen. Now it’s like, well, the robots will just clean and repair your lungs. The same goes for cardiovascular problems. Oh, your heart’s all clogged up. Yeah, we put a stent in, but sorry about it. Just eat out all the cholesterol now and repair the membranes. That’s literally coming. The first therapeutic applications will be on the market before 2035 for these things.
That’s scary. Why is it scary? Because you don’t trust people. You look at all the wonder, but you say, "Oh, well, all those things will be under the control of a small group of people who will use them to hurt me." You believe that after COVID; I believe it too. Holy [__]. So how do we get out of it? Because it’s going to happen whether you like it or not. It’s going to happen because it’s going to make trillionaires, and we live in a capitalist society. People will spend unlimited hours and unlimited time to pursue these ends. They want the money.
I’m betting on people’s greed. It’s going to happen. It’s not a question of whether it’s going to happen; it’s a question of what we’re going to do about it. We have blockchain. We now have a place for objective reality. We have a place for a common set of rules. We have a place for human rights to exist. We can program these exponential technologies to follow that and prevent them from falling into the hands of being misused by governments and large corporations against all of us.
How much is that worth? Can you put a dollar value on that? You can’t because it’s literally every day of your life. It’s literally your experience as a human being. It’s literally what it means to be a human being. That’s why I don’t focus too much on the price, guys. Dollar go up, dollar go down, token go up, token go down. What does that mean? When you look at all these capabilities, whether you live in a dystopian hellscape panopticon or in a society that respects freedom and where your human rights are preserved and protected, this is the challenge of our time.
What do we do with the hyper-abundance of technology? What do we do with exponential technologies that have the ability to change every dimension of your life, including your body and what goes into it? Your genes—what goes into them? Every dimension. I have gout, which is why I sometimes walk with a limp because I’ve had a lot of damage to my right foot from it. I take allopurinol and tart cherry and other stuff to treat my gout and high uric acid levels. What if I can make a plasmid that produces uricase? Humans don’t make that. It would digest the uric acid, and you’d pee it out like vitamin C. Then I wouldn’t have gout anymore. My uric acid levels would plummet.
The technology for that is almost there; it’s called mini-circle. We’ve already talked to the company about potentially doing a clinical trial with them. I could cure my own gout. How about that? One injection a year, and I wouldn’t have to take medicine. It works better, and I’m just like all of you. It’s pretty remarkable, and that’s the beginning of elective gene therapies. That’s the beginning of this new industry.
Again, how do we regulate it? How do we view it? How do we build a framework around the whole thing and gain a better understanding of all these things? It’s challenging, and I’m a big believer that the most foundational technology is the blockchain. I believe that the things we invent here as an industry, if we build them the right way, will give us a toolset to regulate reality in a way where no one is left behind, and we all have basic human rights and trust can be restored.
If we don’t do that, the next ten years are going to be very bad and very problematic. This is the last era of peace that we have. It’s your choice, and ultimately, you have to think it through. In this video, we covered the future of the internet and how to get agents in the internet, and also made another case for why blockchain is so indispensable. Don’t forget it. Thanks for listening.
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