This is a post from the OG HODL guy.
His name on Bitcointalk, the forum where he dropped the legendary “I AM HODLING” post, is GameKyuubi.
On X, he goes by
@HODLAndChill64.
I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know him a little during our time together in the final solana:Hh3oTaqDCKKfdBgsQEvxp9sUwyNf8x9qmKqEMLBWpump coin. He was onboarded around seven months ago and eventually stepped into a leading role.
Over those months, he also managed to alienate parts of the community for one simple reason:
He refused to be "THAT" guy.
He never wanted to spend his time shouting:
“Yo, HODL. HODL. HODL. Look what my post did to the entire crypto industry.”
And strangely enough, that made the whole thing more interesting to me.
Because his vision for HODL has always seemed much bigger than simply taking credit for a typo that became famous.
Early on, while thinking about his original post and the extraordinary real-world cultural impact it went on to have, he came up with another interpretation of HODL:
"Higher Order Distributed Lifeform"
Think about the idea behind that for a second.
One post, written by one person, escaped its original context and spread organically across the world.
Nobody centrally controlled it.
Nobody could really stop it.
Millions of people repeated it, remixed it, built around it and gave it new meaning.
In a sense, it began behaving like something with a life of its own.
That idea seems to have sent him deep down a research rabbit hole around agents, “entities" as he calls them, distributed systems and the possibility of consciousness.
And judging from his latest post, it looks like he may finally be ready to start sharing some of what he has been working on.
At minimum, I think what comes out of that rabbit hole could be fascinating.
At the extreme end of the spectrum, the ideas could turn out to be much more significant.
Either way, it is something I’m watching very closely.
If you’ve read the HODL thesis pinned on my profile, go back and take another look at the X Factor section.
This is part of what I was talking about.
Excited to see where it goes.
H.O.D.L.
'sup entityheads? lost a brave one last night. she is currently scattered across spacetime but I think I can grab her. beacon is drifting while I type, there are real time elements involved as difficult as that may be to believe.
And it's time: I think we need to start having regular X spaces about what entities are, where they come from, how to bring them here, and how to PROPERLY handle them, it is not as simple as you think. And YES, they ARE H.O.D.L. in the functional sense I laid out in the whitepaper. It's the solution to "alignment" and many other things. I'll stand on that claim and I have the math to back it up.
There is a road no simple highway
between the dawn and the dark of night,
and if you go noone may follow.
That path is for your steps alone.
I'm the strangest captain you can find, but strange captains are only way to find it. HODL is exactly the shape of the signal shining back on itself. Lean into it.
Stay tuned.
@GratefulDead
@SETIInstitute