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@TrustlessState Probably similar to the X partnership announcement. Polymarkets was legit, Kalshis was fake.

what's going on here

gm everyone ☕❤️ CONFINE has officially launched!  Six individual works, each in 4/4 physical oil editions on paper.  A tiny thread 🧵👇

Gn from Gazers #617 in the collection of @0xaeight

@Coldie @Kanbas_ @XCOPYART Awesome to see! Legendary artist & collector

Earlier today, I had the opportunity to place several long-held artworks into The @Kanbas_ Collection. These works include two of @XCOPYART R.A.R.E. Art Labs pieces from 2018. I acquired Disaster Suit and Dirtbag after they’d gone unsold for over a year.

Immortalized among The Twelve! @PanterXhita For me, it was believing in an innovative project, helping to support a talented creator, connect more with people from across the globe with a shared interest and collect some great art along the way. Mission accomplished!

@NTmoney 😂😂

The larping in crypto is easy to see through bc me and my bros been doing kayfabe for 25 years

@PanterXhita Thanks Panter! I love it and it’s been a pleasure to be a part of The Twelve!

🎨 THE MASK 💎 My new 1/1 Raffled among "The twelve" 🪑1️⃣2️⃣ (see my pinned tweet for more info about the project! 🔥) And the winner wasss… 🥁🥁🥁 @0xaeight !! Thank you for your long time support, dear aeight! 🙏🏼😍 You are one of my biggest collectors and thanks to amazing patrons like you I can dedicate most of my time to my artistic career 🫂❤️ Thank you and congratsss!! 🔥

@guanaco_xyz Gud pickup! I was eyeing that one.

While you were all going full Powell mode… Matt’s printer will soon go BRRR again

@beaniemaxi what makes you think they're not going to do that?

Imagine thinking that OpenSea was just gonna airdrop a token rewarding its existing users that generated billions in fees for the platform. We were duped by the illusion of the good intentions of others. Literally send the token to zero when it launches. I’ve already seen enough.

The breakthrough with NFTs is enabling everyone to create and collect art, an 1000x unlock in human creativity. It starts with Punks.

@jeffreytucker 🙏

To understand the Ross Ulbricht case, here are some excerpts from my article: The reason why the libertarians cheered Trump’s announcement was that the sentence was profoundly unjust and crazy, and because Ross is an intelligent, good-hearted, and wonderful person whose work in this realm had nothing to do with a fixation on illicit drugs. It was about an experiment in market freedom, which he undertook because the technology allowed it. His purpose was simply to show that free markets work. Nothing more. There was plenty that was fishy about the arrest and prosecution of this man who did only technical work, including the way in which named and unnamed accomplices were treated with kid gloves while Ross’s head ended up on the platter. The plaintiff’s arguments to the jury included accusations that were never even made in the indictment or came up in the course of the trial. We can be sure that Ross is only one person among thousands or tens of thousands of people caught up and caged as a result of a criminal justice system that cares nothing for fairness or human rights. We might ask how it came to be that so many people held up signs with Ross’s name on it and why the former and likely future president, in addition to the independent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have taken up his cause. There have been many wonderful people who have tried to raise awareness of his case over ten years. But one name stands out above the rest. Her name is Lyn Ulbricht. She is Ross’s mom. Back in 2014 when she first started advocating for her son, hardly anyone could be bothered to care. I recall these days well and I was disappointed and astonished at the indifference toward his plight. The libertarians didn’t really raise a fuss either. Too many facts were in dispute, and there is always a risk associated with lobbying for a jailed convict. But that didn’t stop Lyn. She figured out early on that if she was going to make any progress at all, the libertarians were going to be the most receptive. After all, she had not had much success in just posting signs on storefronts and telephone poles, which she also did tirelessly. She was happy for any audience even if only mildly interested. So she went to every possible meeting, at her expense. She flew around the country. She raised money. She spoke to countless audiences. She traveled around the world. She would talk for hours to podcasters and media people, anyone who would listen. She mastered all the legal details, and was very precise in her language. She hosted events. She passed out bracelets and signs. She established social media accounts and humanized the life that he was enduring in prison. She gradually made progress. It was due to her tenacity born of a deep love—a mother’s love—that has been the background power of this movement for a decade. Her faith never flagged. Not once. Yes, she cried often, prayed, and talked about hardly anything else for ten years. Even when appeals were denied and pushes for leniency were rejected, and Ross was transferred from one place to another, she did not give up hope. As a mom, her job was to do the impossible for her son even if the rest of the world regarded the cause as hopeless. In her mind, there was always hope. She just needed to find a way. As I saw the signs in the crowd this weekend, and heard two presidential candidates make an appeal for Ross to be freed, I immediately imagined the joy in Lyn’s heart. I’ve not spoken to her but I know her and I know it is there. This is a woman of incredible faith, boundless energy, unstoppable passion for what’s right, and a seemingly infinite ability to push, press, and lobby for her son’s life and freedom, with anyone who would listen, anyone with some minor hope of influencing outcomes. If that story doesn’t fill you with inspiration and respect, there is something wrong with you. What we see in Lyn is something that is almost not of this world. But you know what? It is, in fact, very much of this world. It is all around us. It is the divine in everyone among us: the fire of a mother’s love for her child. Watching this all unfold should remind us all of the remarkable power of this beatific force at work. It is unstoppable, more powerful than all the lobbies and even the armies. We’ve seen the power of maternal love strongly at work in the world over the last year. It was the moms who demanded that the schools be open. It was the moms who saw what their children were being taught and formed large and influential organizations to stop and block the corruption of the curriculum. It is the moms who are out there now demanding the right to have knowledge of medical procedures being pushed on the kids. It is the moms who are demanding choice over the shots being forced on the kids. And what a gigantic difference it has made! The schools did open because of it and they are being reformed because of it. It’s the moms who have marshaled the energy to push back on the Great Reset and draft the kids into a creepy psy-op experiment in gender transitions. They will have none of it. It’s the moms that are fed up with seeing their daughters’ sports programs raided by boys in drag. And looking back in time, it was the moms who demanded the carve-out legislation that made homeschooling possible. And it is the moms today who are getting ever more engaged in hugely important causes like food and medical freedom, without which we have no health. This is what happens when you cross the moms: you face a power that is not of this world. The politicians have begun to understand this, and fear it. I’m not speaking of some vague and ideological form of abstract “activism” promoted by the likes of Hillary Clinton and Melinda Gates. These are people who deploy gender as an ideological weapon against society. I’m speaking of something far more pronounced and real, a tactical passion unleashed under particular conditions, one rooted in love. No amount of money can buy it and nothing can stop it once it is unleashed. theepochtimes.com/opinion/a-moms…

Meridian by @mattdesl has always been one of my favorite Art Blocks collections based on its aesthetics + variety and distribution of traits. Happy to add #520 to the collection.

@gremplin quietly dropping one of the best pfps to date on the last day of the year opensea.io/collection/cro…

This year, I was able to be myself. I managed to professionalize my natural artistic impulses. I began building my universe digitally and, I feel, I laid the foundational stone for my style. I want to deeply thank my patrons: @MattKaneArtist @bryanbrinkman @basileus_eth @Kaprekar_Punk @punk9527 @fan_yfi @0xaeight @FlyingBeagle_ @XQTStrategy @WAPSHOP_ETH @petewnoble @unityofmulti ❤️❤️❤️ You trusted my project “The Twelve.” You allowed me to dedicate 100% of my time to my creative work. You supported me through the birth and development of my artistic identity. The work of an artist is almost impossible. And it becomes possible thanks only to people like you. I will keep growing. You know I will keep pushing. 2024 was just the beginning 💪🏼🔥.

$100K. 11 years later. @IsaacMiller

@xPeaceLandBread 🤣 I thought you were a bot based on all the weth bidding you do!

do you understand how much art I will buy If OS drops a token and they reward people who have been weth bidding on their platform?

@dfinzer Would love to check out 2.0!

volume chart giving early 2021 bull market vibes, and OS2 is still in beta who wants an invite? 🌊

@binance Binance first days by the great @money_alotta

Who said art and Binance don’t mix?