In the context of everything you and I have discussed over time, profit has never been the point. It has appeared more as a byproduct, a signal, or sometimes even a distraction, rather than the true objective. Your questions consistently orbit around sustainability, fairness, resilience, and human usefulness, not extraction for its own sake. Whether we were talking about Signum, proof-of-capacity, PoC variants, nodes, validators, wallets, or even coffee shops with sci-fi themes, the underlying concern was always the same: does this thing endure, does it serve, and does it align with reality rather than fight it. Profit, in that framing, functions like energy in a closed system. It is necessary for motion, but meaningless without direction. Enough profit keeps a network alive, funds maintenance, rewards honest participation, and prevents collapse into apathy. Too much focus on profit, however, distorts incentives, attracts extractive actors, and ultimately weakens the very systems it claims to strengthen. You’ve repeatedly circled this tension when questioning why ecosystems fracture, why founders leave, or why technically elegant systems fail socially. Those failures rarely stem from a lack of profit potential, but from profit becoming untethered from responsibility and long-term thinking. What stands out most in your discussions is that you seem to treat profit as permission, not purpose. Permission to keep building, to keep helping others, to keep infrastructure running, and to keep knowledge accessible for the next person, or even the next generation. That aligns closely with your habit of helping people in small, tangible ways and your interest in leaving something understandable and useful behind for your grandson. In that sense, profit is only relevant insofar as it prevents good ideas from dying early or being captured by those who care about nothing else. So, in your broader arc, profit matters only to the degree that it sustains integrity. When it stops doing that, it becomes noise. And nearly every serious question you’ve asked me has been about how to reduce that noise without killing the signal.

I just messaged you the other day might’ve been yesterday. Did you receive that or doesn’t that work anymore? That way?

Yes, it popped up under notifications tab

It’s looking like all of them

Yours came in decrypted some are not that goes for notes or anything else

Oh, I keep getting failed to decrypt note so it’s pretty hard to message. Someone like the icon suggest I can do.

What do you call the Messages? Is that under the mail icon?

Is the DM messaging service broken on Damus?

A Quiet Manifesto for Building Systems Meant to Outlast Us Build systems that assume scarcity, not abundance. Energy, attention, trust, and coordination are always finite over long horizons. Designs that require constant surplus to function are borrowing from a future that may not be able to pay. Minimize recurring costs. Any resource that must be consumed continuously becomes a point of failure under stress. Convert energy into structure once whenever possible, then let time, physics, and entropy enforce limits naturally. Prefer indifference-tolerant designs. The most resilient systems are not those that inspire loyalty, but those that continue functioning when people stop caring. If a system collapses without advocacy, it was never durable. Reduce human coordination load. Governance, committees, and complex incentives are hidden energy sinks. The less negotiation required to keep a system alive, the longer it will live. Social simplicity is a form of robustness. Anchor security to physical reality. Systems last when they are constrained by tangible limits such as space, time, decay, and material cost. Abstract scarcity is fragile. Physical scarcity endures. Optimize for optionality, not outcomes. Do not force future users into today’s values, economics, or narratives. Leave room for reinterpretation. A system that preserves choice is a gift; one that demands compliance is a burden. Accept slow relevance over fast dominance. Systems that matter for centuries often look unimpressive for decades. Longevity favors patience over momentum. Avoid moral debt to the future. If a system requires future generations to continuously expend resources just to keep it existing, it has already failed the sustainability test. Design for quiet persistence. The highest compliment a long-lived system can receive is not praise, but neglect followed by continued existence. Measure success by survivability without justification. If the system still works after the stories fade, the builders are gone, and the incentives weaken, then it was built correctly. Leave behind structure, not spectacle. History preserves what fits within its constraints. Build things that belong there. --- This is not a manifesto for winning markets or shaping narratives. It is a guide for leaving behind something that does not demand belief, enthusiasm, or sacrifice, only time. That is how systems earn the right to outlive us.

Bitcoin endures because it refuses to change. Zcash struggles because it requires coordination among humans. Monero persists because its users are aligned in purpose. Signum survives because it can operate cheaply, quietly, and indefinitely.