Not to take up all your time, but want to respond on the crypto co-opting you mention, which I also see. Someone said the most interesting thing the other day that I think you'll appreciate. He was talking about the different communities around each of the top coins that has a lot to do with how it is "mined." He said that in the BTC world there was a fierce, adversarial competition between miners. I must get to that computation before you, and only one of us can earn that BTC. Whereas in say the ETH community there is a lot of cooperation to advance the tech (or something like that, don't really remember the others that well). Main point being, there is an inherent value problem with BTC they will probably never go away. But other crypto offers much greater promise of actually being a part of the world we want to create.
In fact, I just came out of a meeting in which we discussed the possibility of our own community token that incentivizes certain behaviors related to a world awake, and creates a token economy around that. If you'd like to be kept in the loop on those developments, just let me know how to best reach you with any of that.
Sorry for the late reply @indigoocean .. I've been offline for the majority of the week so I'm just catching up on messages. Yes, I think you've made some great and valid points and I very much agree that it's the intent behind the implementation of the coin that determines the outcome. In the long term I have great hope for the future of our species, and like I alluded to in the post (if we can detach ourselves from greed and bitcoin) great hope in the power of a truly decentralised crypto space.
My concern has always been for this moment in time and (although it's always darkest before dawn) the manipulation and division that is playing out around us. This is the chaos before the perceptual shift (the shift of ages) and although (like the winter storms) this chaos will pass, the power structure will not simply relinquish their grip upon this world .. and yet from a wider and deeper perspective, they are also the ones forcing our hand, demanding that we change, driving us to create ingenious solutions to the injustices and imbalances they have brought to our socities.
Whichever way you look at it and however frustrating this world can be, we are incredibly lucky to be alive at this moment in time .. although perhaps luck doesn't come into it. ;) Thanks again my friend and yes I would love to be kept up to date with the behavioural token concept .. incredibly interesting! Are you on discord? I'm still in the middle of this house renovation (hence I'm not around as much) but I will always catch up with any messages that are left for me.