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@ArtofOrb
making code & art do things they were not intended to do

This VF photo and article ("Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously") feel so off to me and I was trying to figure out why. I think it's because it feels like something that was written in the 2018 era of crypto -- where belief was almost everything the industry had going for it. blockchains and tokens were live but mostly just to gamble with. so a photoshoot that portrays crypto people as this excentric rag tag group who somehow still hang on to their weird ideals even as prices crash made sense back then. But not today.


In 2005, the Million Dollar Homepage let you buy pixels on a website for $1 each. Made a college kid a millionaire. 10 years later, Nov 2015, someone put that idea on Ethereum. Trustless ownership pixels. No middleman. Just cracked the exact bytecode. 🎉 Here's the story 🧵







BREAKING: Trump reportedly briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay.









