great thoughtful discussion here - and thank you for saying kind words and putting my name next to legendary madex! It's good to shift focus from short term to long term and project out what may be left as the culture artifacts of bitcoin emerging alongside us. Impressive how you laid it out here, I'll have to think more on this. In the short term, I genuinely hide my interest in bitcoin from people I might want to become friends with because the optics are so bad. That sucks! And since tech isn't my interest, I often don't know how making art in this space makes any sense for me at all. But then there's the other thing, there's no home for my art in the broader culture either. As you point out:

Stacker News fixes this, honestly. Here I can use the tool that I'm enthusiastic to use and the content isn't limited, it is not taking the tool to be the all-encompassing subject. Some may be disgruntled about it, but it is incredible how SN is slowly transforming but remains stubborn enough to demand excellence outside of bitcoin topics. I love freedom.