# DAOpunk Diaries (002)

By [Joey Magia](https://paragraph.com/@joeymagia) · 2023-05-09

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_0747hrs, Metaverse._

If it all started with Bitcoin, perhaps it is worth going back to the source of all this to re-return to the present with more formation of information. I wonder, would a Cryptography 101 course be relevant in contributing to the space valuably? Are degrees and financial know-how prerequisites in order to partake in the DeFi protocols and efficiently invest-divest in and out of them?

I’m looking around at the spaces I’m in and am consistently bombarded with the next opportunity to flip a bag into more. HODLing is a first step, but TRADING is really where it’s at. Discord is graffitied with multiple boxes of channels, and Twitter feeds bleed coin gossip and trending crypto topics with spaces packed with opinion, alpha, and market beta testing the strength of those diamond hands.

And here I am, writing to find purpose.

![Focus.](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a0fb5809e5d0a7025b20d60fae9204bad577e2f2bf3cf0e6d17071a8699f0a00.png)

Focus.

Which is mightier - the pen that entertains or the one that cuts through the revelry with burning ink of wisdom? Perhaps none; of what value is anything a keyboard types if the writer behind the screen works with hands alien to the bruises of experience? Might another “_see the money I’ve made_“ and “_buy my course today_“ be the better approach to building impactful service, instead of a voice in the wind speaking of personal doubts while traveling due **East**?

This Crypto Native DAOpunk is still just a naive metaverser, travelling towards a deeper blockchain understanding with less jargon and more human-to-human communication. There is no time to distill the immense flux of web3 information into reader-perfect content that is immediately actionable. Now is the time to roll with the punches **consistently**, **everyday**, until a personal sense of understanding and wisdom is attained.

Compound interest. Accumulated baby steps. From 0 to 1.

Start now.

![#ETH.pistles002 | 0758hrs](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/c57147fb51b7db974479bee828528a3830de3a9c9ed5d2b2139e15d0fdc01e75.png)

#ETH.pistles002 | 0758hrs

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*Originally published on [Joey Magia](https://paragraph.com/@joeymagia/daopunk-diaries-002)*