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Mar 23 9 tweets 2 min read
Everyone who keeps grovelling for my attention with some mewling "if you think it's bad why don't you adopt it and make it good instead" needs to be shoved into seven consecutive, nested lockers. Image
If it's just that easy to "make it good" then why don't *you* do it and stop wasting my time by insisting that I waste my time fixing your mistakes?
The absolute jokerfication thing I've observed over the last few months is that the people who are the most vocally frowny face about how I "don't talk about the good projects" themselves overwhelmingly spend their time retweeting gachapon trash and memecoins.
"It's so good for artists! It really frees them up to talk about anything!"
-Artists whose work has devolved into 95% crypto memes
The Unbearable Cringe of Crypto
"Sure, the devs who build social credit and surveillance systems are horny for crypto and all its strapped-on ecosystems, but I'm sure that if we just build the good version using their tools we'll definitely be able to out-compete them at their own game"
Kevin Roose' NYT piece has this absolutely Jeb-brained ahistorical take where he 1) pretends/ignores that no one was systemically critical of social media prior to 2020 and 2) insists that if they'd just been *more involved* they *maybe* could have made FaceBook less destructive. Image
The absolutely herculean hedging being done by "might" in that last paragraph is awe-inspiring.
Anyway, one of the two founders of OpenSea won awards for his work at Palantir, the surveillance company, and they're now deeply embedded in the a16z money tap ecosystem.

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Feb 2
Of these 2.3 thousand replies it would be generous to say that even ten are actual humans. The rest are bots.

I haven't felt the need to reply to much of anything because the crypto ecosystem's reality speaks for itself.
I have found it fascinating watching a substantial number of web3/crypto pushers come to the dawning realization that they're not misunderstood, they're loathed. Realize that they had no idea the degree of ad spam, bots, and over-hyped shilling that everyone else is dealing with.
There's also been the frankly embarrassing "I deserve to talk to Dan Olson directly! RT/like if you agree!" responses, and the only slightly less embarrassing "I'm going to pretend that this ad pitch for my product is actually a substantive reply to Dan's criticisms."
Read 16 tweets
Jan 24
If "over one trillion dollars of value" disappears from your ecosystem over a weekend and Monday's news isn't a bloodbath of businesses going under then you're not a real economy.
The number of large brain big boys smugly replying with “now do the stock market” is pretty revealing ‘cus, like, mate: that’s the first panel
Read 4 tweets
Oct 7, 2021
For days now I've been accepting every spam NFT Discord invite I've received, and it's getting dire Image
Then there's World of Wojak which is just Wojaks and also promising to maybe throw a pizza party or something, IDK, give me money ImageImage
Can't forget Dimez, which is selling virtual bags of crack rocks, which has a needless to say robust roadmap for the future ImageImage
Read 148 tweets
Sep 30, 2021
I find it very funny that such a high % of NFTs are just appeals to the navel gazing myth of NFTs.
Because, surprising no one familiar with how online works, it's a marketplace, and a particularly insular one, so to be competitive you need to appeal to the interests and sensibilities of the patron class
And what are the patron class of NFTs interested in? NFTs and crypto.

So what do you make your NFTs about? NFTs and crypto, of course.
Read 9 tweets
Sep 30, 2021
Imagine being so butthurt that people don't care about your collection of CryptoPunks, and mock you by making your CryptoPunks into their PFP, that you convince Twitter to add a verification badge saying all your CryptoPunks are authentic.
"If you see anyone else with my CryptoPunk as their PFP they're an imposter, they do not own the authenticated, verified version of my CryptoPunk. Unless they minted and verified their own bootleg I guess. But the most important thing: I am not the loser here, they are."
Up next: verification badges for completed Innistrad card lists, Homies series 3, and authentic Wuzzles.
Read 5 tweets
May 3, 2021
Research is fun. Website screenshot: Mini Ethereum (METH) price in USD. View
I was looking this up because I was looking up Ethereum benchmarks and got a banner ad for a cryptocasino, which I decided to poke around, and found their live Megaball game, where the biggest payout was 702.35 mETH, which from what I can work out is about 3¢?
I'm not confident in that because it's either a fractional value of Ethereum, or it's a completely separate crypto "backed by interest-generating real-world assets which initially include car equity loans." (kill me)
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