The Million Experiment

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GM everyone! Got some much needed rest, back to building. Spent the morning cleaning up a few things behind the scenes. The next batch of website updates will go live later today, and we're continuing to work through the final keeper bot issues. In the meantime, I'll be manually claiming creator fees until the keeper bot is back online. The first buyback + burn will be executed as soon as the bot is back online. Today we continue moving toward our goal, one step at a time. solana:72yWLCSRPf1VyGpUy2DgcKow4u2go6AWcyQZuB8Wpump

Quick update: The past few hours have been spent tracking down issues with the keeper bot. After quite a bit of debugging, it appears the transaction history endpoint we're relying on is still being rate limited despite our enterprise plan. We've reached out to Birdeye and are currently awaiting a response. In the meantime, development hasn't stopped. We've got several improvements planned for the site and will continue working on them while we wait for a resolution. Worst case, buybacks and burns will be executed manually until everything is sorted. Everything should be running smoothly very soon. I've been heads down working for the past 8 hours, so it's time to get some rest. I'll be back at it in a few hours, and a number of web updates are already scheduled to deploy later today. Day 1 was a huge success. 10% of the way to our goal. 1,000+ holders. Millions of solana:72yWLCSRPf1VyGpUy2DgcKow4u2go6AWcyQZuB8Wpump already burned. Most importantly, we've proven that people are still willing to rally around a simple idea. themillionexperiment.fun

It's been just over 4 hours. We've accumulated 1,000+ holders, completed 29 buybacks, and burned over 6,224,549 $MILLION. People underestimate what can happen when a large number of individuals become aligned around a simple idea. As @MustStopMurad once said, "what looks delusional at the beginning often looks obvious in hindsight."

Keeper bot is almost finished. Ankr does not provide the endpoint we need to execute burns, which means we would have to manually execute burns. The good news is we've upgraded to an enterprise plan on Birdeye, so rate limiting should no longer be an issue. We're wrapping up the final changes/tests and it will be running again very shortly!

When was the last time people rallied around an idea instead of a narrative? A shared goal. A shared belief. The sense that a group of like-minded people could accomplish something larger than any individual could on their own. The things that originally made this space interesting weren't complicated. They were remarkably simple. solana:72yWLCSRPf1VyGpUy2DgcKow4u2go6AWcyQZuB8Wpump

Quick update: The keeper bot is nearly ready. What we expected to be a relatively quick fix ended up taking much longer. We're running a few tests to make sure everything is functioning correctly before bringing it back online. Shouldn't be much longer.

Delusional Bulls Will Win in the End.

It appears we are being rate limited by Birdeye once again. We will add caching and request batching to reduce the number of API calls required by the site and keeper bot. In the meantime, we are switching providers to Ankr so the keeper bot can continue claiming rewards, executing buybacks, and burning tokens without interruption. This may take a few minutes, you'll know its working as soon as the next buyback is executed. Thanks for the heads up 🫡

For the new people joining us: The Million Experiment is built around a simple flywheel. - Creator rewards fund buybacks. - Buybacks reduce supply through burns. - A keeper bot runs 24/7, automatically claiming creator rewards every hour and continuously feeding the buyback and burn system. The entire process is automated and tracked publicly at themillionexperiment.fun.

One thing @MustStopMurad got right: People underestimate the power of collective belief. The biggest moves often happen when a large group of people become aligned around a simple idea. The Million Experiment is a simple test of that. solana:72yWLCSRPf1VyGpUy2DgcKow4u2go6AWcyQZuB8Wpump

We just pushed out an update to our site. You can now view Total Bought and Total Burned on themillionexperiment.fun. If we're going to run an experiment, the data should be public. Every buyback. Every burn. Every step toward the goal. solana:72yWLCSRPf1VyGpUy2DgcKow4u2go6AWcyQZuB8Wpump

Keeper bot running on 5 minute intervals is a little too demanding. Almost out of API credits again. We'll refill and move the bot to ~60 minute intervals, which will allow the system to continuously claim rewards, execute buybacks, and burn tokens. 24/7. The experiment continues. solana:72yWLCSRPf1VyGpUy2DgcKow4u2go6AWcyQZuB8Wpump

Buyback + burn executed. Total Supply 🔥: 1,195,271.492122 $MILLION solscan.io/tx/2YahnoJxoDy…

For the first time in a while, crypto feels fun again. A simple idea. A clear target. A public experiment. The whitepaper is one line: Reach a $1,000,000 market cap. themillionexperiment.fun

Buyback + burn executed. Total Supply 🔥: 681,766.63663 $MILLION solscan.io/tx/2v34H1LASby…

Buyback + burn executed. Total Supply 🔥: 572,710.045516 solana:72yWLCSRPf1VyGpUy2DgcKow4u2go6AWcyQZuB8Wpump solscan.io/tx/4ZPdvV3mkyX…

@rinsed_347 Yes, working on it now.

@millionexp_pf Can you make the burns show up on the website?

Buyback + burn executed. Total Supply 🔥: 493,741.137587 $MILLION solscan.io/tx/ZTV6ttmNUCy…