ThomasCrown.eth 👑

Pretty good at crypto. Well-traveled. Built a house in the Caribbean. Hope you like photos of my dogs. Punk #2864, masses. #37

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@econoar Money has changed you too. I thought we were here to do something important.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

There's 3 levels of rich...

Level 1.) Cutting your own grass

Level 2.) Paying someone else to cut your grass

Level 3.) Cutting your own grass

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Everyone is so afraid to be a little goofy. World needs more people that can laugh at themselves.

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@NateGeraci You're right... you don't understand.

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Every time someone says they built something with their bare hands I wonder why they didn't wear gloves.

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@DaoChemist @ChainLinkGod 🎯

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@owocki tyfys 🫡

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@UncleRewards 💯

No problem with tradeoff experiments, but I want nothing to do with that culture

Ethereum has liars & scammers too... We just don't amplify their voices and follow them blindly because it's convenient for our bags

https://t.co/UHn3NQECYQ

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There's nothing controversial about this post, but the first 4 replies are petty cheap shots by Toly, Raj, Mert, and Samani.

No problem with other design choices, but I don't want anything to do with this culture.

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@josephdelong Still.
https://t.co/TOcyOgMGpn

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@josephdelong Probably my favorite thing you've ever posted

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@ryanberckmans @mteamisloading Trying to understand. Does 7918 increase the default lowest fee per blob gas unit that Ethereum will charge for including blob data in a block?

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@tokenterminal @solana @base @ethereum This is like bragging about how much spam your junk folder gets

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@abcoathup tyfys

[Sov @unrealSov]

Here’s what really happened.

Before the 2021 NFT boom, some large punkholders (1000+ punks claimed) sold all / most of their punks — mostly below 3 ETH. But they still had 1000+ bugged contract tokens (”v1s”). A campaign was started to promote the “v1s” as the authentic version (“the originals”). So the holders — who had already sold their punks to other people — now started saying the “v1s” were the real deal. They came up with the V1 name and promoted the narratives.

There’s more:

Do you know why the contract was upgraded?

Because the bugged “v1” contract allowed anyone to buy punks from someone else — without paying for them. You could buy someone’s punk listing, get the punk, and not pay any ETH: You got the punk, the seller got nothing!

Most people didn’t exploit this bug. But some did.

Ironically, the person who exploited the most people was the large punkholder who sold 1000+ punks below 3 ETH — but who still had their 1000+ “v1s” — and who now became one of the most vocal leaders for the “v1s.” That’s why I haven't traded these tokens: I know how it started, how it unfolded, and the motivation behind promotion of the “v1s.”

I haven't said much about this. But I think history, actual truth, and how communities build and grow is important. Most people weren't here in 2017. It isn’t only about what’s first. Cryptopunks would never have blossomed without a community of early, blockchain-loving believers. A community with the foresight to value digital art—to trade it, to buy it. A community that was in agreement around the token they wanted to use. A token that gained value — in many ways, because of the community.

Of course we can buy whatever tokens we want.
That's the fun of NFTs and crypto-art!

But it's also healthy to know your history.
It's healthy to know what happened — and why

Especially if you're someone who cares about how we build and grow here

Disclosure: I claimed 108 punks (now have 144) and still have the 108 “v1s” from the bugged contract

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Brb launching $WURK

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Most people on CT wouldn't know actual work from a meme coin called $WURK

The more you try to get rich quick, the longer you have fun staying poor

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But I was told there'd be a revolution?

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@scupytrooples Remember when people were saying this was going to be a serious project?

Down 96.5% from all time high

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@MikeIppolito_ To anyone saying Blockworks is just engagement farmers, I would encourage you to engage with 700+ podcasts

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@fabdarice https://t.co/UdwQY5ITX5

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@cryptokaiguy @smyyguy Never let the truth stand in the way of a Blockworks narrative

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Very few people in crypto understand the technology

Equally few people understand business development and marketing

You cannot intuit either

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@2077Collective What is your marketing experience?

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100 ETH isn't a lot to gamble.

Maybe we should make *more* mistakes funding moonshots like this...

But @2077Collective smelled like a phony from the start.

[Artem Oak @Artem_Oak]

There is one project that was supposed to become the "Marketing layer" for Ethereum

This project received 100 ETH from Vitalik
The founder has since left, the website is offline, accounts are inactive since April and we have no idea where the money went

Let's talk about @2077Collective

When it first launched, I was pleased to see that marketing efforts were still supported by Vitalik, that finally we would get some interesting content about ETH, that something would change

I reached out to the founder and never heard back. I wanted to see what we could do with them, how we could help out. So i tagged them on twitter, reached out via Discord, but it led nowhere

I thought that it was okay as long as their efforts paid off. After all with OAK Research, we were still a small research outlet as we were just starting. I thought we were not big enough for them to care.

A few months later, after no communication from their founder, I decided to check what kind of efforts were promoted. Their account was constantly reposting memes, some bs retweets and nothing meaningful that really contributed to the "Ethereum marketing".

Then I checked their discord and oh boy was it a disaster. The videos they were promoting and i believe were paying people for, generated *65 cumulative views* in a few months on Youtube. And a few K on twitter. Much wow.

So I called them out and asked where the funds were going.

Their response was "We haven’t created reports for that yet but can pass the feedback along to the team." wdym you are responding with the official account on twitter, you are the team mf

Anyways, I didn't have time to continue begging them for these reports so I kinda left that be and moved on. A few weeks later, their so called founder Emmanuel posted a long tweet to explain that he was dealing with some "mental issues" and basically that he was leaving the project. Never heard from him since, never saw where the money went. Great.

You would assume for a project that received the support from the founder of Ethereum himself, they would find either someone to replace him, or at least provide transparency regarding their funding. Guess what?

We still have no clue where the money went. We still don't know how much of it is left or if there is any.

So here's a formal request to all the people who took part in this project.

Let us know what is left in the "treasury" of the project. If there is anything left, I will personally help you select research outlets, KOLs, marketers, video producers, whatever, to better allocate this money. I don't even care if OAK Research perceives any allocation to produce reports. I just don't want to leave these funds in the hands of @eawosikaa.

We can take care of allocating these funds and providing complete transparency: where it went, how it was allocated, @cobie can escrow it until we find something to do with what's left, for what I care.

We can help emergent creators, research outlets, relevant people in the ecosystem, other initiatives by just not being complacent and leaving whatever's left of the 100 ETH.

Another idea would be to just giving them to @GolemFoundation to stake them forever so they can power @OctantApp and their initiatives.

Don't tell me you've spent over 300K in less than a year while not doing any marketing whatsoever.

Anyways, my dms are open