Everyone is so afraid to be a little goofy. World needs more people that can laugh at themselves.
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ThomasCrown.eth 👑
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ThomasCrown.eth 👑
@ETHomasCrown
Pretty good at crypto. Well-traveled. Built a house in the Caribbean. Hope you like photos of my dogs. Punk #2864, masses. #37
Katılım Mart 2021
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Still wild to me that BlackRock is just sitting around ceding spot sol ETFs to competitors…
Along w/ all other spot altcoin ETFs.
Honestly don’t understand it from a business perspective.
Huge benefit to crypto-native ETF issuers though.
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Every time someone says they built something with their bare hands I wonder why they didn't wear gloves.
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I have a lot of respect for the ChainLink protocol and community, but there is this sense of "know-it-all" and hive-mindedness that honestly is not the W you think it is.
Sure Ethereum got plenty of maximalism and holier-than-thou brand of decentralization. But even when provide technical argument, it's like talking to a brick wall.
Have I not provided you my take on limitations of consortium chain? And what was your response? Nothing. So even when someone engage in good faith, you disengage, so what then? But you believe you know the "pragmatic" reality of crypto, and we ideological folks are misguided, yet you don't actually test your views against those who disagree. Is that the pragmatic way?
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Some folks in crypto are having a real tough time accepting the reality that corporate blockchains are here to stay
They’ll wring their hands about ‘credible neutrality’ and agonize whether this negates the ideals of decentralization
Idk man, that’s your cross to bear, you need to go down that journey on your own and find out what that means for the crypto landscape going forward
At the end, most end up as either $BTC maxis or $LINK maxis
LINK marines accepted this reality many years ago, there will be many public DeFi chains and private bank chains, so best to back the infra that powers all of them
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@UncleRewards 💯
No problem with tradeoff experiments, but I want nothing to do with that culture
Ethereum has liars & scammers too... We just don't amplify their voices and follow them blindly because it's convenient for our bags
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ThomasCrown.eth 👑@ETHomasCrown
There's nothing controversial about this post, but the first 4 replies are petty cheap shots by Toly, Raj, Mert, and Samani. No problem with other design choices, but I don't want anything to do with this culture.
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@ryanberckmans @mteamisloading Trying to understand. Does 7918 increase the default lowest fee per blob gas unit that Ethereum will charge for including blob data in a block?
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@tokenterminal @solana @base @ethereum This is like bragging about how much spam your junk folder gets
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ThomasCrown.eth 👑 retweetledi
Here’s what really happened.
Before the 2021 NFT boom, some large punkholders (1000+ punks claimed) sold all / most of their punks — mostly below 3 ETH. But they still had 1000+ bugged contract tokens (”v1s”). A campaign was started to promote the “v1s” as the authentic version (“the originals”). So the holders — who had already sold their punks to other people — now started saying the “v1s” were the real deal. They came up with the V1 name and promoted the narratives.
There’s more:
Do you know why the contract was upgraded?
Because the bugged “v1” contract allowed anyone to buy punks from someone else — without paying for them. You could buy someone’s punk listing, get the punk, and not pay any ETH: You got the punk, the seller got nothing!
Most people didn’t exploit this bug. But some did.
Ironically, the person who exploited the most people was the large punkholder who sold 1000+ punks below 3 ETH — but who still had their 1000+ “v1s” — and who now became one of the most vocal leaders for the “v1s.” That’s why I haven't traded these tokens: I know how it started, how it unfolded, and the motivation behind promotion of the “v1s.”
I haven't said much about this. But I think history, actual truth, and how communities build and grow is important. Most people weren't here in 2017. It isn’t only about what’s first. Cryptopunks would never have blossomed without a community of early, blockchain-loving believers. A community with the foresight to value digital art—to trade it, to buy it. A community that was in agreement around the token they wanted to use. A token that gained value — in many ways, because of the community.
Of course we can buy whatever tokens we want.
That's the fun of NFTs and crypto-art!
But it's also healthy to know your history.
It's healthy to know what happened — and why
Especially if you're someone who cares about how we build and grow here
Disclosure: I claimed 108 punks (now have 144) and still have the 108 “v1s” from the bugged contract
path.eth 🛡️@Cryptopathic
Today I sold my V2 punk to purchase more V1s. It's becoming clear that the V1/V2 punk argument rests solely on the latter group's ability to brand themselves as "real" through their social network. If the story of the flawed V1 contract were to play out today, duplicating and then airdropping the new collection would be an unacceptable solution. This made all punks 1 of 2s, with V1 punks as the “first editions” of these assets. In all other collectible classes, the earlier editions of something are more sought after. This is also generally true of the scarcer misprint variants of assets - there are far fewer V1s still in circulation. The solution was accepted at the time of the V1 exploit because there were minimal options with which to view onchain assets - what Larva Labs platformed was what everyone got to interact with. With the introduction of third party marketplaces and the V1 wrapping contract, this ceased to be the case. Very few people in the community back in the day had enough foresight to realise that all LL had done was sweep the originals under the rug. The narrative that V2s are in some way superior is defended largely by the snobbish type of collector who judges art only by its price, and has an emotional attachment to the status that owning this asset gives them. They see attempts to discuss the onchain truth of the story as an attack on their gated social group and the sunk cost of their investment. This is ignorance of the provenance uniquely available through the blockchain, and an elitist rejection of another community as a way of preserving capital; they are neither ‘crypto’ nor ‘punk’. Any newcomer to onchain collecting, being exposed to the publicly verifiable and immutable information available surrounding these collections, would judge V1s - at less than 10% the price of the V2s - as the more grounded choice. There are a handful of common counterarguments. V1s are unable to use their original in-contract marketplace because of the exploit, but this experience has been abstracted into existence. The chains of ownership are different as they fork after the V2 airdrop, meaning they have different social networks, but V1s have a nascent community capturing the more historically minded. V1s do not receive the same IP rights as V2s, although onchain PfP IP has proven to be rarely utilized. There are 20,000 punks. The V1 punks are the original cryptopunks that were claimed on June 9th, 2017. The later V2 punks have the backing of their creators and are more well known, benefitting disproportionately from this publicity. This is a fascinating case of art undergoing a literal schism - one collection to serve the will of the artist, and the other becoming inseparable from its foundations, the machine it was built to showcase. This machine will outlive us, and with it, the story of how a failure of imagination led to the burying of the truth of its icons.
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Most people on CT wouldn't know actual work from a meme coin called $WURK
The more you try to get rich quick, the longer you have fun staying poor
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@MikeIppolito_ To anyone saying Blockworks is just engagement farmers, I would encourage you to engage with 700+ podcasts
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To anyone saying Blockworks doesn’t support Ethereum, I would encourage you to go to Twitter, search my name, include “ETH” or “Ethereum” and see what comes up.
I would also encourage you to go back and listen to the 700+ podcasts i’ve recorded over the last four years
I think you would find a very balanced, but very pronounced tilt in favor of Ethereum.
Does that mean it’s the only project I like? Not at all.
Does that mean there has been no criticism of the architectural decisions or leadership of the protocol? No.
But I would stand by a long track record of fair and quite solid coverage.
And I am quite happy to see Ethereum doing well, although I continue to wish that the cultish social layer gets drastically reformed in the same way I hope it does for Bitcoin.
I’ve been increasingly worried that the industry that i’ve dedicated a decade to will result in bizarre social cults that i don’t feel at home in at all.
Mippo 🟪@MikeIppolito_
Ethereum is quietly winning right now. 1. DeFi - Ethereum is straight up running away with the category 2. Scaling - real time proving and 4-8X blob throughput and 10X gas limit in Fusaka 3. Leadership - @tkstanczak and @dankrad Don’t let PTSD cloud your mind, it’s a new era.
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Surprising to see a crypto data company sharing incorrect information and refusing to take it down.
Here’s the up-to-date mNAV for $SBET according to its Aug 14 filing.
When in doubts: SΞR
Dan Smith@smyyguy
Monitoring the situation
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Very few people in crypto understand the technology
Equally few people understand business development and marketing
You cannot intuit either
ThomasCrown.eth 👑@ETHomasCrown
@2077Collective What is your marketing experience?
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100 ETH isn't a lot to gamble.
Maybe we should make *more* mistakes funding moonshots like this...
But @2077Collective smelled like a phony from the start.
Artem Oak@Artem_Oak
There is one project that was supposed to become the "Marketing layer" for Ethereum This project received 100 ETH from Vitalik The founder has since left, the website is offline, accounts are inactive since April and we have no idea where the money went Let's talk about @2077Collective When it first launched, I was pleased to see that marketing efforts were still supported by Vitalik, that finally we would get some interesting content about ETH, that something would change I reached out to the founder and never heard back. I wanted to see what we could do with them, how we could help out. So i tagged them on twitter, reached out via Discord, but it led nowhere I thought that it was okay as long as their efforts paid off. After all with OAK Research, we were still a small research outlet as we were just starting. I thought we were not big enough for them to care. A few months later, after no communication from their founder, I decided to check what kind of efforts were promoted. Their account was constantly reposting memes, some bs retweets and nothing meaningful that really contributed to the "Ethereum marketing". Then I checked their discord and oh boy was it a disaster. The videos they were promoting and i believe were paying people for, generated *65 cumulative views* in a few months on Youtube. And a few K on twitter. Much wow. So I called them out and asked where the funds were going. Their response was "We haven’t created reports for that yet but can pass the feedback along to the team." wdym you are responding with the official account on twitter, you are the team mf Anyways, I didn't have time to continue begging them for these reports so I kinda left that be and moved on. A few weeks later, their so called founder Emmanuel posted a long tweet to explain that he was dealing with some "mental issues" and basically that he was leaving the project. Never heard from him since, never saw where the money went. Great. You would assume for a project that received the support from the founder of Ethereum himself, they would find either someone to replace him, or at least provide transparency regarding their funding. Guess what? We still have no clue where the money went. We still don't know how much of it is left or if there is any. So here's a formal request to all the people who took part in this project. Let us know what is left in the "treasury" of the project. If there is anything left, I will personally help you select research outlets, KOLs, marketers, video producers, whatever, to better allocate this money. I don't even care if OAK Research perceives any allocation to produce reports. I just don't want to leave these funds in the hands of @eawosikaa. We can take care of allocating these funds and providing complete transparency: where it went, how it was allocated, @cobie can escrow it until we find something to do with what's left, for what I care. We can help emergent creators, research outlets, relevant people in the ecosystem, other initiatives by just not being complacent and leaving whatever's left of the 100 ETH. Another idea would be to just giving them to @GolemFoundation to stake them forever so they can power @OctantApp and their initiatives. Don't tell me you've spent over 300K in less than a year while not doing any marketing whatsoever. Anyways, my dms are open
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@Artem_Oak agreed, 2077’s business model was a disaster (I worked there for half a year 🙃)
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There is one project that was supposed to become the "Marketing layer" for Ethereum
This project received 100 ETH from Vitalik
The founder has since left, the website is offline, accounts are inactive since April and we have no idea where the money went
Let's talk about @2077Collective
When it first launched, I was pleased to see that marketing efforts were still supported by Vitalik, that finally we would get some interesting content about ETH, that something would change
I reached out to the founder and never heard back. I wanted to see what we could do with them, how we could help out. So i tagged them on twitter, reached out via Discord, but it led nowhere
I thought that it was okay as long as their efforts paid off. After all with OAK Research, we were still a small research outlet as we were just starting. I thought we were not big enough for them to care.
A few months later, after no communication from their founder, I decided to check what kind of efforts were promoted. Their account was constantly reposting memes, some bs retweets and nothing meaningful that really contributed to the "Ethereum marketing".
Then I checked their discord and oh boy was it a disaster. The videos they were promoting and i believe were paying people for, generated *65 cumulative views* in a few months on Youtube. And a few K on twitter. Much wow.
So I called them out and asked where the funds were going.
Their response was "We haven’t created reports for that yet but can pass the feedback along to the team." wdym you are responding with the official account on twitter, you are the team mf
Anyways, I didn't have time to continue begging them for these reports so I kinda left that be and moved on. A few weeks later, their so called founder Emmanuel posted a long tweet to explain that he was dealing with some "mental issues" and basically that he was leaving the project. Never heard from him since, never saw where the money went. Great.
You would assume for a project that received the support from the founder of Ethereum himself, they would find either someone to replace him, or at least provide transparency regarding their funding. Guess what?
We still have no clue where the money went. We still don't know how much of it is left or if there is any.
So here's a formal request to all the people who took part in this project.
Let us know what is left in the "treasury" of the project. If there is anything left, I will personally help you select research outlets, KOLs, marketers, video producers, whatever, to better allocate this money. I don't even care if OAK Research perceives any allocation to produce reports. I just don't want to leave these funds in the hands of @eawosikaa.
We can take care of allocating these funds and providing complete transparency: where it went, how it was allocated, @cobie can escrow it until we find something to do with what's left, for what I care.
We can help emergent creators, research outlets, relevant people in the ecosystem, other initiatives by just not being complacent and leaving whatever's left of the 100 ETH.
Another idea would be to just giving them to @GolemFoundation to stake them forever so they can power @OctantApp and their initiatives.
Don't tell me you've spent over 300K in less than a year while not doing any marketing whatsoever.
Anyways, my dms are open
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@cryptokaiguy @smyyguy Never let the truth stand in the way of a Blockworks narrative
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