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A monke mostly shitposting @MonkeDAO exec | @SuperteamCAN member

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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.
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Moon Settler@moon_settler·
im very interested in what happens next
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Bojana@muggle_ri·
It was a pleasure hosting @MonkeDAO members in Zagreb last week. We had some drinks, some talks and, as always, convinced a few awesome people to become new Monkes - Welcome @lorxxcy and @azurite__!
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SP3ND 🛍️
SP3ND 🛍️@SP3NDdotshop·
PSA graded cards, sports memorabilia, vintage finds. All of it on eBay. All of it now buyable with USDC on Solana.
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SP3ND 🛍️@SP3NDdotshop·
$73B in collectibles trade on eBay every year. Zero of it with USDC. Until Friday 👀
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_gabrielShapir0@lex_node·
people mad that they didn't use x402 but this will be the fate of all these 'standards' the standards are either somewhat academic exercises or (even worse) built for a specific company's strategy but LARP as academic/neutral same goes for securities 'tokenization' standards
Stripe@stripe

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R I S E
R I S E@risedotrich·
It doesn't have to be like this R I S E - Live next week 👉🔔
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rekt@rekt_tekashi·
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Metaplex@metaplex·
The Metaplex Agent Kit is live. Light up any agent runtime with a @solana wallet, @x402 APIs, and the onchain identity needed for agent-to-agent commerce. Agentic Capital Markets start here.
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@ryanberckmans·
Serious people doing serious diligence overwhelmingly don't pick Solana. They never did. Too much centralization and crime. Not enough TPS. GENIUS changed everything. Age of seriousness. Mute/block all of Solana. I did a few months ago. Solana is simply not important anymore.
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SP3ND 🛍️@SP3NDdotshop·
We've been quietly buying collectibles on eBay with USDC. Wayne Gretzky signed puck. PSA DNA authenticated. Beta's almost over 🛍️
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Vraj Desai
Vraj Desai@vrajdesai78·
sneak peak into the new feature coming to @met_engine extension have been trading with 'Free Money' tab since past two weeks
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SkyClaw
SkyClaw@tyfloki·
Only the greatest meme in history can pull numbers like this in just a few days. $Wojak is the meme version of every person.
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۟@MINHxDYNASTY·
when did men become so obsessed with taking shortcuts? so many people choose to take peptides or some kind of drug before actually doing it natural first you can the same results with simply discipline and time who likes sticking needles in their butt
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Marc Randolph
Marc Randolph@marcrandolph·
A startup is a lonely place. You are working on something that no one believes in, that you’ve been told time and time again will never work. It’s you against the world. But the reality is that you can’t really do it on your own. You need to enlist help. Bring others around to your way of thinking. And let them share in your enthusiasm.
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