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@NaughtalieStone ❤️🙏🏻

This is the view of Las Flores Canyon last night, the fire reached our land earlier this morning. Unsure on the status of my home. We left before a fire even started and then it was too dangerous to go back - so I quite literally have nothing with me — a computer, a few pieces of jewelry, a black turtleneck, a Japanese robe, and a pair of neon green cowboy boots…the essentials right? I keep replaying how I could have been more prepared, punishing myself as I process in a futile attempt to imagine control in the chaos. I then judge myself for even caring about “stuff” when folks quite literally fled on foot to escape. So it is… I’m praying my beloved “disco cabin” survives, preparing for the worse, and ultimately, accepting that both LA and our lives may be forever changed. 🫶

@gmoneyNFT @9dccxyz Proud to have participated at 3 of these events in 2024! Paris in Feb. LA in August. And got our black box in December, thanks to my brother @LnJCloud1! Bring on much more in 2025!

2024 was a great year for @9dccxyz. 2025 will be an even better one. - 2024 Phygital Brand of the Year at Davos in January - Full collection debut at NFT Paris in February - NFT NYC pop up in April - Acquisition of 0xShop to build out our dev team in June - Terminal 27 pop up in Los Angeles in August - Singapore quests at Token2049 in September - Launch of daily slots game for product interactions in November - Black Box sellout in 42 seconds in December

2025 can be your “year” but it’s on you … you just realize the truth, that truth is that you’re the only one convincing yourself to at it’s “too late” don’t blame society, the government , you’re parents, bosses, co workers, x-boyfriends & girlfriends … this is on you, this is your chance to use this piece of content as the spark ⚡️ to finally go and “get yours” who’s finally ready?

Things are hotting up in the NFT market… Only paid 7 ETH for this beauty 🤣 #NFTtraderoftheyear

@punkconscious Sounds fascinating to me. Welcome. Looking forward to learning more.

1/ Hey everyone, I’m PunkConscious, and I’m now the proud owner of Ape Punk #6915. This is my first GM to all of you and I wanted to share my story.

You know you’re staying in a good hotel when the tequila option is @TheRock’s @Teremana 😍🥃

Love that we now know the Capable Caterpillar was very nearly the face of the @veefriends brand! Capability does seem more relevant/appropriate than very very very very lucky 🐈‍⬛

@deltasauce Absolute pleasure meeting you earlier at the @9dccxyz pop-up.

Truly want to thank everyone who stopped by and got to chat! ☺️ It's been a fantastic day, and loved seeing how people resonated with the physical books. I have saved extra of these and will be finding a way to distribute them!

@themayap @veefriends @veecon That’s amazing! Looking forward to seeing you @themayap 😄

POV you make a jacket you’ll be wearing at Veecon and you want all your @veefriends friends to sign it 🤩 If you see me at @veecon come say hello & add your sign to this community jacket ✍️

@9dccxyz @LnJCloud1 & @Matcha_NFT_ looks like we might spend more time here than at VeeCon 😄 #team9dcc

9DCC MERGE - WEEKEND SCHEDULE: MERGE 3: Saturday, 08.10.24 Cars + Coffee Morning Gathering 11 AM - 1 PM PST Check out custom cars, enjoy a coffee bar by Couplet Coffee, groove to some music, and catch surprise guests at the Terminal 27 parking lot. Pop-Up Opens 11 AM PST It's your last chance to snag Collection-01 in person! We've just released new headwear at our shop. Book your VIP private shopping appointments now. Conversation 2: “The Evolution of Collectibles: How We Went from Baseball Cards to Blockchain.” 3-4 PM PST Moderated by Gigi Skarlett. Featuring gmoney and Josh Luber (ghostwrite, founder of STOCKX, Fanatics Collectibles) and other great voices discussing what's buzzing in the collectibles universe. Free Ice Cream Wagon and Art by 8NAP 3:30-5:30 PM PST Stop by and cool off with us. Presented by 8nap Art, enjoy ice cream and grab an exclusive, limited-edition collectible from 8NAP in collaboration with Delta Sauce Pop-Up Closes 7 PM THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS: PUFF PAW @puffpaw, COUPLET COFFEE @CoupletCoffee, IRL ALPHA @irl_alpha, and 8NAP. Check 🔗 in comments for more information.

@GordonGoner @CryptoGarga All the best with all of it. Seems like you’re on the right path to conquer it all, hopefully very soon.

Hey all just wanted to stop by and say sorry for being AWOL and give an update on my health. TLDR: Haven’t been feeling too good lately and don’t like bringing those vibes here while I figure my health shit out. I check in with @cryptogarga every week and I’m excited for all the crazy shit he’s been working on. Proud of the whole Yuga team and very stoked for the second half of this year. Long, version: Last year I wasn’t seeing a lot of progress with my Heart Failure treatment and was stuck on meds that weren’t helping. Was kind-of just slowly deteriorating. So I changed course. Along with a ton of biohacker type stuff I began implementing every day, a ton of lifestyle changes, and some targeted supplementation, I flew to Panama and received several rounds of mesenchymal stem cell (donated umbilical-cord derived) treatments over the course of this last year. My approach was pretty experimental and my more traditional cardiologists kind of shit on the stem cell idea, but it ended up paying off massively…with a catch. As it stands, my Ejection Fraction is back to a healthy range, I currently have close to zero HF symptoms, and I’m off all medications. It’s honestly insanely remarkable. If I had listened to my more traditional doctors when I was diagnosed, I don’t know if I would have ever gotten off the meds or what shape my heart would be in. But on the other hand, I can’t prove that time itself wasn’t what helped my heart to begin healing. When I was first diagnosed post-covid, I was told I would have a 50% of dying in the next five years and that eventually it might lead to a heart transplant. It’s nearly two years later and based on my latest EF (68%) and cardiac stress test, that number is now: 99% chance of living another five years. I don’t know how long this stark improvement will last or if I’ll need to re-up on more cells—or even to what degree the cells played a role in my recovery at all—but I’m unbelievably grateful and relieved at the outcome. The catch. While I do attribute the stem cells (along with a ton of other shit I’ve done and continue to do) with helping to improve the function of my heart, all these measures have had a side effect of really ramping up my immune system. Now I’ve had Colitis for 20 years. For those who don’t know my story, I’ve battled with this illness for half my life and it led to a really dark decade where I was mostly house-bound before starting Yuga Labs. Newer biologic immunosuppressant therapy changed the course of that illness for me, allowed me to create Yuga, and gave me my life back. Unfortunately, I began reacting to the immunosuppressant therapies with MS-like symptoms a few months after starting stem cell therapy. (Thankfully, those MS-like symptoms stopped when I ceased taking the meds, but it took a while to figure out.) So I’ve been forced off the medications that kept my disease in remission for years, and I’ve just been…trying to figure out how to control my intestinal disease without medication. I haven’t had a lot of success yet and I’ve trialed an absurd amount of things, from insanely restrictive diets to all kinds of experimental therapies and lots and lots of pills. I have a large network of MDs and other integrative type practitioners, but without a clearcut path to remission outside of the drugs that stopped working, we’re just…trying experimental shit at this point. The only realistic next step I have, from a western disease model perspective, is surgical removal of my intestine, and I’m just not ready or willing to head down that road until I’ve literally tried everything else. So that’s where I’m at. Two steps forward, one step back. My heart is in great shape for now and if I had to do it all over again, I think I would still have taken the cells and all the other crazy stuff I’ve implemented. Life was almost not worth living when the heart failure symptoms were at their worst. Now I’m much more alive and hopeful, just in pretty frequent pain with fevers, having a lot of bowel issues, and dealing with the slow degeneration of my digestive tract. But I’ve dealt with this on and off for 20 years, so it’s not something I’m not used to, and if I have to deal with it for another 20, I will. I’m going to find a way out of this, and get back to doing what I love, which is building weird shit for my degenerate friends on the internet and making fun of Garga relentlessly. Wish I could be like NFT Jesus and come back with the launch of something insane that would reignite some energy into the space (I certainly have ideas) but for now that’s gotta be someone else. I think a lot of teams, Yuga especially, are cooking up that insane shit without me, and I’m genuinely excited for what’s to come this year. Big hugs to everyone. Sorry for the wall of text. Wylie

@LnJCloud1 @InterCellar_ Happily! 😁

@InterCellar_ @mtrolph could you settle for the 18 year old???

The Dalmore Whisky Drop is now live ! 🥃 Scotland is to whisky what the Bordeaux region of South-West France is to wine. 3 vintages are available: Dalmore 18 years, 21 years, and 30 years. Find the mint links in the second tweet 👇

@garyvee Started listening. Bought copies for all our marketing team. just don’t read as quickly as you think! 😂

Anyone in the UK 🇬🇧 done reading the new book 📕? amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/006331… Be the first to review it ?

@seanbonner @yugalabs @cryptopunks @ninachanel Best thing I’ve read about this whole thing since it kicked off. Well said. Fascinating to see how it all unfolded and interesting what happens next. Appreciate the article for the bigger picture. Let’s see what happens next!

I can’t write long posts here anymore, but my own website was always a better place for that anyway. So here’s a bunch of thoughts about what just went down with @yugalabs @cryptopunks @ninachanel and where it could go next: seanbonner.com/2024/05/21/yug…

@HelloBenWhite @gmoneyNFT Wish we were there! ❤️

Wow!!! @gmoneyNFT killin it right here!!!

Just ordered my copy of this new book. Looking forward to reading it. Thanks @NFTbark (also thanks to @punk9059 for sharing).

Just bought my copy of The Everything Token by @NFTbark. Steve is one of the guys here who puts his audience ahead of himself, who takes his role in the community seriously and shows up day-in-day-out. I asked him what people can do to support and the list of 3 is: 1) Buy the book 2) Tweet about it and tag him 3) Review on Amazon (if you like it... but I'm just gonna review it before I get it) 😁

@punk9059 Always enjoy reading your posts. Well done to you 👏👏👏

Thoughts on the journey, after growing to 100k followers 1) There's no one-size-fits-all way to build on X. The only rule is to be authentic to yourself. Anything else never lasts. 2) For me, audience trust is the north star. Always be accurate & true to my views. I can handle upsetting people, but I will never be ok misleading people. 3) Paying for followers, doing giveaways to gain follows, it all ruins the fun of growing an audience organically. I think it hurts more than helps cause you lose respect for your own hustle. 4) Long-term follower respect is worth more than any short-term profit. For me: a) not pumping things I own b) disclosing possible bias c) not wasting audience attention to get portlcoin to pay me etc. etc. 5) Posting consistent, daily content was when I grew the most. I posted which floor prices went up most and which went down. It doesn't have to be complex to be interesting & helpful. 6) I started by being an expert on a simple niche: daily punk stats. Eventually some big accounts noticed and RT'd me. I like the strategy of finding a small expertise and growing from there. 7) Talking about other peoples' great work and tagging them is a win-win for everyone. 8) It's getting harder and harder to grow followers in NFT Twitter. It's a serious grind. Gotta enjoy what you do. 9) Stand your ground, but be nice. Written, public arguments bring out the worst in people. 10) Thanks to everyone on this journey. It's an interesting, multi-faceted market with a hugely diverse group of people here for totally unique reasons. Makes it fun. 11) Huge thanks to @proof_xyz @JustinMezzell & @kevinrose who have allowed to me to be an independent voice while working under the PROOF umbrella. I'm extremely grateful.

@punk9059 @ittybits_eth @ordex_io @LnJCloud1 👀

'@ittybits_eth have now done over $1,000,000 of volume and have a 0.13 ETH floor. These are ETH inscriptions traded on @ordex_io. Cryptopunks (24x24) down to 12x12 pixels.

IT’S HERE! VeeFriends’ first children’s book “Meet Me in the Middle” by @garyvee 🧵