The wandering surfer, a supermassive black hole and the fundamental forces of Crypto

Paddling out to the break is a battle. Carnage and chaos; the wandering whitewater smashes you back, the raucous of the rip wrenches you in. You’re a victim, no questions. There’s no escaping the raging torrents of water constantly cascading on you. Powerful. Powerless. Relax, breathe, allow the currents to rage, succumb to the mind, and be one with the water.

Look up. It’s pulling you in. A voracious beast, a cosmic enigma, a perplexing horizon shrouded in mystery. Physics knows no bounds here, fate has no followers. The black hole is a region in which reality as we know it dissolves into undiscoverable chaos. Your only option is to stare the singularity in the eye and succumb to the control of the vast expanse of the unknown.

The waves die down. The sea is still. You sit motionless. Or are you? Is there really such a thing?

The very planet you sit on is spinning at 460 meters per second while hurling through space, orbiting a raging ball of fire at 2400 kilometres a minute. This planet slots inside a solar system, sitting inside a galaxy, spinning at 210 kilometres per second around a black hole 4 million times heavier than the sun. You are zooming around an unknown, endless mystery at 1.3 million miles per hour. Motionless is an illusion.

Raging torrents, cosmic enigmas, staggering speed and entropy, what’s the point? How does this translate to crypto?

The fundamentals of physics, life, biology and mathematics are apparent in everything you do. Change is inevitable, entropy is certain, waves cause carnage, and the path you slowly ebb towards is shrouded in mystery. The tides are always changing, and crypto is no different. There is no defined path, but if you don’t become one with the mystery, purpose and mind, you will succumb to the chaos.

The Crypto Tides

There’s no debate that the Crypto tides are some of the most chaotic out there. Huge, volatile swells and brutal breaks. Bigger fish than you have paddled out and left with nothing but broken boards and battle wounds. Terra, 3AC, FTX, and Celcius were all hot stuff shredding blue-walled giants just a few years back. They now lie washed up and beaten, spat out by the power of the swell, a reminder to all that greed and ego shred everything but the sea.

So, if these billionaire masterminds failed, how can you possibly ride the same waves?

You first need to understand them.

It begins with a question. What’s shifting the tides and creating the swell?Is it gravity from a new moon of monetary policy? Attraction from a charged meteor of financial freedom? A supermassive-crushing regulatory black hole? A binding, decentralized web of inter-dimensional networks? It could be one; it could be all.

This force has as much power over you as it does the tides. By stumbling across this article, my guess is that you want to surf. You wish to jump into the sea and get barreled by the beauty of the space you find yourself uncontrollably pulled towards. Maybe you are even trying to define if this is where you want to be, waiting to walk in as you struggle to understand the force ebbing you towards it’s centre.

We’re all here for many different reasons, and just as our galaxy orbits around a supermassive black hole by the force of gravity, something is pulling you here. It’s important to define the different forces that culminate in that overarching pull. The very definition gives the way you surf the waves a purpose, a meaning, a power.

The Four Fundamental Forces of Crypto

Just as our realm of universal physics has 4 fundamental forces, I believe crypto does too. Each force interacts uniquely with the web3 world with varying strengths for different people. It’s the overarching culmination of all these forces that attracts you to the centre. So, what are these mysterious 4 forces?

1. Force of Financial Freedom

2. Participation Force

3. Networked Force of Decentralisation

And finally,

4. Unified Force of Balance

Each force is an exploration in itself and will require a unique article. I hope by analysing these 4 forces, you will start to understand why you find yourself uncontrollably pulled towards these waves. You will realise why the tides change, how this web3 universe functions, and begin to discover the deeper purpose for your being here.

A small task.