I initially tried to task GPT to help me write this post, but quickly hit significant hurdles given it doesn’t seem to have all the relevant and accurate context required to have the post come across as desired.

This is a good thing as it reminded me of the joys of writing from the heart to the brain to the fingertips that enjoy such graceful reverberations as the taps pitter patter upon the laptop keyboard for extended periods of time, a feeling I wonder, will be lost on future generations.

This post is intended to put a hard stop on the work I’ve endured over the past decade attempting to meld what i learnt in the decentralised economy and life in general, in filmmaking and moneymaking.

The energy I’ve expended over that period of time has not been in vein but has cost me in many ways than just money, it’s also brought me a lot of value in the knowledge and friendships I’ve earned along the way, and honestly its been totally worth it.

People say you make your own luck but people also say eventually your luck will run out, for me both are accurate and whats happened at Bitjoin is testament to that. Numerous times Ive ran out of luck and considered moving away entirely from these pursuits of wonder that filmmaking and decentralised finance have afforded my smooth brain. Indeed many a time I’ve wondered if I’m just too much of a simpleton to continue down this path, only to come to the realisation over and over again that’s okay.

Success can be measured in numerous ways and I as likely do you, have your own way of measuring it within a context that satisfies. So while I’ve arguably had as many failures as I have had successes, what comes next it seems is largely out of my hands.

I’ve given myself over to the decentralisation Gods and in doing so have not abandoned but instead let go any power i thought i had attained over the past decades telling the stories i felt needed to be told in a way that i preferred to disseminate them.

In an effort to not babble on too much even though as i understand it this here text window provides for me infinite typing potential, I will soon get to the point of the post. The time has come to pass the mantel of whatever you think or have thought Bitjoin is.

Initially a lonesome blog in a sea of what was then a very healthy blogging ecosystem (hola if you still read blogs) thanks to the friends I have made along the way I have now been able to realise a viable path forward for what Bitjoin has to date, actually became.

Partly born out of frustration with gatekeepers and the various limitations so prevalent within the Arts economy, i never asked for permission, i never lingered on the sidelines wondering if I did ‘this’ would ‘that’ happen. I simply jumped in and fired of questions, and while curiosity hasn’t killed this cat I call Bitjoin it certainly appears to have generated more curious cats, with more curious questions.

From Bitjoin as a blog, to Bitjoin as an indie studio, now we see the emergence of Bitjoin the decentralised studio proper. I named it Indikin, a portmanteau of Indie and Kindred, oxymoronic at first glance i think it captures the very nature of what I always wanted Bitjoin to be but alone never had the chance to realise.

In my mind it captures the very nature of the creative process as well as decentralised networks, something I have spent way too much time dwelling on over the last decade. And while i consider myself a slow learner in some regards, there is something to be said about the speed in which one digests new information, often when i slow down the rate of information digestion, new synaptic connections are made that may not have been made had I rushed to understand that which was presented or discovered.

This is where the juicy bits are found, in the serendipitous nature of repeatedly falling and getting back up. The great thing about writing from the heart to the brain to the fingertips is that tempered flow, where all the important juicy bits that might otherwise have been scanned over in the name of efficiency get elevated a higher degree of importance, regardless of their actual realised importance.

In an efficiency obsessed world where one is encouraged to move fast and break things in the name of competition many come to disregard the arts and those more pronounced processes that allow for various new realisations to emerge in the context of the art being created.

We are not computers, no matter how much those operating the computer companies wish it we’re the case. However, to anthropomorphise them for a moment, computers are slaves, computers only do as they’re told, when they’re told to do so. Becoming overly reliant on them as either tools for achieving rapid creative efficiency or offsetting personal cognition will eventually leave us as pure meat bags, good for nothing outside of syphoning our currencies and propagating meaningless pop culture references created in far away lands.

I’m sure those working in the so called soft-sciences will be better able to articulate what I’m attempting to get at, but none the less this is my blog post so i shall write as i so desire. If you made it this far, well done, you’re likely a patient person and only a decade late to the party.

Very soon, likely within the next weeks and months, you will come to learn what Bitjoin has always meant to be regardless if i knew it when i started out all those years ago, a Litepaper has already been published at indikin.com -you can think of this as a roadmap or half-finished map – likely to throw up more questions than answers. Thats because while I like to think i have all the answers, I simply don’t. I have assumptions, hunches and heaps and heaps of ideas, but now its time to properly test and evolve them in the market place.

I dont feel a need to explain my hunches here in this post given theres a Litepaper and plenty of material charting the path from The Bitjoinery to Indikin to this point in time freely available online – although apparently not accessible for the GPT – Those of you with inquisitive minds and a penchant for Bitjoin productions over the past years will likely forge your own path towards those materials.

The ticker is $INDIKIN and don’t even bother asking me why it’s launching on Pulsechain, I’m somewhat as baffled as you are, but all will be revealed in the soon come Degen Generation Documentary.

It took me a decade to get here and precisely twenty seven minutes to write this post.

That’s time i will never get back, I hope it was time well spent.

Thank you for sticking with me.