If you were deep into cryptopunks in june 2017 and can spare a moment, plz read on.
Doesn't matter if you were part of team or part of community, just that you are intimately familiar with how one would have most likely created a new wallet + bought punks back then
1. If someone only had crypto in their Coinbase account and wanted to buy a punk, what would they have most likely used (what was recommended? Tutorials?) to create a new wallet?
2. Then what?
3. If they had a ledger or trezor, would they have been able to buy a punk directly with their hardware wallet? Was it common?
4. What migrations or token updates have happened since summer '17? If they didn't do anything since that summer, does that make these OG punks invisible on some UIs? Is there a preferred UI for this situation?
For bg:
When punks go MIA, my team and I don't have the requisite background knowledge to separate irrelevant info from meaningful info to be of meaningful help to the person with said MIA punks. Also, human memories are filled with red herrings.
Thank you! 💖
Wow I just realized how fucked were going to be in 2025 and it's not simple accounts w few punk txs we're looking at but a hot mess pile of various undocumented farming and nft systems who relied on proprietary underdocumented apis, 99% of which are long acquired or dead. Ahhhhhh
Be a doll, go put the tutorial/doc urls of your favorite 2021 bull run thing into the bottom of archive.org/web/ for every future support team member turned rescue diver.
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Wow did not resonate with me at all. The problem here is not crypto.
This is what happens when no one sets the stage, no one creates a shared experience token holders ("community" lol), no one has conviction in shared set of values bc values didn't come first, the $ came first.
I don't know much about Jon or whatever part he played in whatever he was part of that triggered his truth-rage.
But this isn't about Jon. This is about the 99% of shitcoins and shitheads in crypto and, if you follow me, it's the shit you see, the shit you hate, and the why.
If you arbitrarily create a group of people by selling them all a token, they will do as you do.
Well, first, theyll share some traits bc they all bought your sales pitch. How you sell matters far more than if you were selling toilet paper to shitheads. Bc you need them later.
Reminder: Bitcoin is NOT private. Bitcoin CAN be traced. The ways to link onchain tx's and ultimately tie them to your IRL identity are increasingly sophisticated and the efforts are increasingly led by US agencies. The blockchain is forever.
But.....
As far as I can tell the tracing of on-chain BTC transactions played ~zero part in tracking down/confirming Bitcoin Fog's alleged operator's id.
The narrative the govt, Wired, etc are pushing on this (that bitcoin is not anonymous) is true. But it's also pretty irrelevant here.
The reality is that w/o 4 separate, centralized, key data sources the govt wouldn't have been able to track him down. Only one of those data sources came from a lawful subpoena: Google.
The rest came from Mt Gox + Liberty Reserve + BTC-E data that the IRS-CI just...has?
@Ledger and @Trezor are safer and more trusted than MM. Ice cold paper airgapped machine storage is even moreso.
But your random no-name mobile wallet, the port tracker that wants your full admin exchange API keys, and the rotting DeFi food you keep throwing $ at are WAY WORSE.
Flashy new wallet that's never endured a bull run? Yeah, no thanks lol.
Entering your private key directly into a website/dapp? Fuck off.
Centralized "recover with your phone number" shit? Hope you are bribing all the $1/hr support agents in the Philippines to NOT sim swap you!
Oooh fun one. Okay so let's start with literally MetaMask. Meaning your actual legit MetaMask extension is actually used in order to get the keys, rather than the keys that you generated with MetaMask or use in MetaMask are compromised without MetaMask involvement.
e.g. Evil maid attack. Theft. Leaving it unlocked at starbucks.
MetaMask takes measures in how they store secrets + auto lock state. But honestly if someone targeting you and your crypto gets your physical device, RIP. ☠️⚰️🥀
2. Full remote access to your device.
Most commonly, Teamviewer. Hacker walks thru the door you left open & grabs your shit.
Here's an old example of exactly that. Bonus insights into securing a product like MetaMask/MyCrypto/MEW in full reddit thread.