Thread by @008_eth

(1/10) Why I'm collecting 999 Passports:

- IRL I've traveled to 30+ countries
- Currently collecting at least 1 🇧🇷999 from each country I've visited IRL
- During the post-Covid era, international travel has been difficult
- Now I can visit newly forming meta-countries: 🇮🇸999

(2/10) Web 3 is about Identity
- The #999Passport allows us to build our identity to include the places we've traveled and are interested in
- Everyone has their $ENS, next people will add their origin (their pseudonymous personality's origin)
- We can immigrate on-chain

(3/10) Price Point
- In ENS it's not just the price, it's the carry cost
- 3 & 4 character names are $53 & $13 per month ... that's too high to for mass adoption
- #999Passport only is $0.42/month
- Anyone and everyone semi-interested in $ENS can afford one

(4/10) Expands the Community
- On the way from 1.5m ENS names to 20m ENS names, a lot of random stuff will be minted
- How does ENS Digits expand it's community?
- 5ds, 6ds or concept of 999 applied to existing national identity
- I feel more connected to my passports > my 5ds

(4/10) Clean af
- They stand out & look great
- Adding in the name on twitter is a perfect accent
- Just like a 3 or 4 digit, the 999 Passport is self explanatory
- The sheer number of $ENS community members who put these in their name this week - speaks volumes

(5/10) Flags = IP
- Regardless if we are choosing our IRL origins or a country we resonate with ... these flags are brands
- What other IP has so much global appeal & is not violating trademark/copyright?
- ENS community can tap cultural IP w/ 0 risk of DMCA

(6/10) Dreaming Big
- Current tech allows for L2 passport stamping visiting on-chain version of countries/points of interest
- EiffelTower.eth could sit in a single-asset wallet that "stamps" your 🇦🇪321 passport with a 🇫🇷 on-chain
- Community can create a meta layer on IRL places

(7/10) IRL Meet Ups
- It's hard to find like minded web3 people in your IRL setting
- 999 Passports will connect you with a physically accessible passionate ENS community
- Maybe you are going on vacation to 🇻🇳, you buy 🇻🇳232 - to give you access to IRL event while in-country

(8/10) IRL P2 - ENS as Cash Flow Asset
- Perhaps you live in 🇧🇷, you buy 12 🇧🇷### passports
- When web3 people visit, you lease 🇧🇷 passports to them
- You provide them w/ IRL tours to local web3 starts ups
- Entrepreneurs can leverage these assets for cash flow w/ sweat equity

(9/10) Technology is Log Scale
- In order for ENS to grow, we need to think in 10x terms
- We don't need a new 5k or 10k project club ... we need something that brings 100k people into ENS
- There's ~200k #999Passport possibilities
- That's the scale we NEED

(10/10) - Community & Connection
- ~200k #999Passports minted
- Massive community
- How do they connect?
- Australia 999, Swiss 999, Brazil 999, Nigeria 999
- Each 999 club has ~1110 members, small enough to connect
- When we "travel" we will be entering vibrant communities