How the Runestone & $DOG airdrops were funded: (correction)
Runestone airdrop (112k+ inscriptions) would have cost $100k+ in BTC fees.
Leonidas didn’t pay out of pocket and didn’t raise VC
-Solution 1: Auctioned the “parent” Runestone inscription (largest ever mined) sold for 8 BTC.
-Solution 2: The community voluntarily donated 3.5 BTC extra to guarantee all fees were covered.
The surplus from that pool fully funded the etching and 100 % free $DOG airdrop (Rune #3) on halving day
Result:
Two legendary, 100 % fair launches.
Paid for by the community itself and one historic auction.🫡
BREAKING: The Bitcoin Runes token $DOG is currently trending on X
14K $DOG posts in the past day
98K $DOG posts in the past week
529K $DOG posts in the past month
100% of the $DOG supply was airdropped for free in a volunteer initiative with no insider allocation or treasury
$DOG is CC0, open source, and has no team
One sextillion hashes per second of proof of work compute secures $DOG
When I say that $DOG is unruggable I mean it!
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The $DOG chart signiture looks remarkably similar to the $pepe chart signiture before it went into orbit.
But $Dog is going all the way to the moon. 🚀🚀🚀
Because $Dog is on Bitcoin.
Once the downtrend is decisively broken (soon imo) anything is possible!!! 🫡
The truth about Runes 🧵
The truth is that the Runes 1.0 infrastructure wasn't ready for the masses but I have incredible news
Runes 2.0 is here and it solves all of your problems!
During the 2024 Runes hype people rightfully complained about not having aggregators, getting sniped, long block times, lack of liquidity, mint fees going to miners, no failed mint refunds, and the "buying in lots" UX
But thanks to builders like @radfi_btc, @dot_swap, @SatsTerminal, @RunesDEX, @xverse, and many more, these are all problems of the past
And the best part is that Runes 2.0 is still trustless and on Bitcoin L1
When attention inevitably comes back to the Bitcoin ecosystem I think people are going to be shocked at how much better the UX has gotten in just 12 months
The Bitcoin ecosystem is already experiencing a new cohort of tokens like $PIZZA, $NODESTR, and $RAD born during the Runes 2.0 era that benefit from much thicker on-chain liquidity
Tokens launched during the Runes 1.0 era also benefit from all of the UX improvements of Runes 2.0 as well and it has never been easier or faster to buy OG Bitcoin memecoins like $DOG, $MIM, $PUPS, $BILLY, $GIZMO, or $LOBO
The general mistake that people made with Runes was being too quick to judge a brand new protocol
The UX for ERC-20 and SPL tokens also sucked during the first year after they launched
It takes time for an ecosystem to mature and for the tech to get built out
If you're excited about the maturity of the Runes infrastructure and the massive opportunity of tokens on Bitcoin that Runes 2.0 unlocks then smash the repost button so that everyone learns about Runes 2.0!