In Benin Republic, A truck carrying soft drinks had an accident and people were actually helping them pack the drinks in place, I know a country where all the drinks will be looted in minutes 🤦🏾♂️
One day the whole of ct; whole of vc, KOLS, investors, whales, shrimps, retail and crypto PACs alike would sit down and evaluate what we did by supporting/hoping/helping Trump win the last election in the US, but let's just sit tight for the bumpy ride
Many of us are already aware about address poisoning, but sometimes seeing your wallet sending a fake token to a phishing contract or any other address can often make you troubled, thinking that your wallet might be compromised.
This usually happens when you send some token and on the block explorer you see that from your wallet some unknown token has been sent to an address whose ending portion is similar to your wallet address.
And when you open the tx, you see that phishing addresses are sending these txs. Seeing the phishing address tag, many of us get troubled.
1/ So, from a user's perspective:
You might think your wallet is hacked or compromised, but it is not. So, the main question is how is this possible??
Well, block explorers usually rely on event logs to show the ERC-20 token transfer data, but the twist is, anyone can deploy a smart contract that can emit fake event logs like "0x123...abcd sent Y token to 0x321...dcba", but it's just an event log, not an actual transfer. No tokens move, no balances change.
Block explorers fetch these event logs and display them on their explorer. The explorer just shows what it reads, it doesn't verify if the event logs are real or fake.
So basically, whatever you see on the explorer is not always what actually happens. A bad actor can emit fake events and can display a tx in such a way that it looks like you sent tokens to those addresses.
Therefore, seeing these kinds of txs, don't worry, nothing actually happens from your wallet.
Founders : Airdrop farmers are the worst, they add no value in projects so they deserve nothing.
But when the same airdrop farmers who believed in their projects , bought their tokens in ICOs, are now down 30-70% with no recovery in sight.
Airdrops were supposed to give free money to community users. Instead most of these founder class collectively airdropped themselves users' hard earned money and called it building innovative project.
This is an entire industry scam pattern. Same playbook and same audacity of these so-called founders.
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You are spot on.
Begging is a mirror. The beggar comes with need, yes. The begged sometimes comes with need too. The need to feel powerful. The need to feel chosen. The need to feel large in a world that keeps shrinking people.
Power enjoys the posture of mercy. Influence enjoys the theatre of generosity. Many people do not simply give. They perform giving, because it restores something in their self-image that money alone cannot buy.
This reminds me of a novel I had to read in school. Aminata Sow Fall’s The Beggars’ Strike (La Grève des bàttu, 1979). That novel understands this dynamic with the cruelty of good satire. A civil servant decides the city must look modern. Beggars offend the tourist brochure. They interrupt traffic. They stain the fantasy of progress. So he clears them off the streets. The beggars respond with a strike. They refuse alms. No coins, no rice, no pity-money, no holy performance.
And then the city panics.
Because almsgiving was never just charity. It was worship. Superstition. Ritual. Social hygiene. People give because they want favour. People give because they want protection. People give because a marabout told them a door will not open unless a hand opens first. The official himself is told to make the right sacrifice, distribute the right meat, perform the right generosity if he wants the next rung of power. He goes looking for beggars the way a politician goes looking for endorsements. He finds none. The machine stalls. The city learns, in embarrassment, that it needs the people it has been stepping over.
Nigeria understands this logic intimately.
Many powerful people in Nigeria would not know who they are without the daily proof of being needed. Remove the queues, remove the pleading, remove the hands outstretched, and you remove a certain kind of Nigerian greatness. That is why philanthropist is spoken like a religious title (I have someone in mind already writing this but I don’t want to look for trouble 🤣). That is sometimes why giveaways are announced, filmed, branded. To be clear giveaways are sometimes genuine kindness. But very often it is also governance by affection. Reputation laundering. The maintenance of a social order in which somebody must kneel so somebody else can feel tall.
You see the same thing in romance.
As a Nigerian woman being pursued by a Nigerian man with resources, refuse to take his money. Refuse to let him pay. Watch the offence arrive, swift and personal. Not because he is wounded by the rejection of generosity. But because the script has been disrupted. How does one perform desirability without purchase? How does one enact masculinity without provision? How does one stage power if it cannot be translated into spending?
The money was doing a job. It was organising the relationship. It was clarifying who stands and who bends.
It is also why it is dangerous to beg a Nigerian for money because they will remember it forever and the day you disagree with them in public they will remind you with receipts that one day in the past they gave you money and how dare you try to change the power dynamic that giving created. How dare you be a human with your own agency? Did you not know what that money was buying when you begged for it?
So yes. It goes both ways. The beggar often needs survival. The begged sometimes needs the beggar.
So I add:
Blessed are the beggars, for they give us a sense of purpose.
Blessed are the begged, for their reward is in the power imbalance.
Blessed are the begged for they can remind you that you begged when you step out of line.
Thank you for pointing out that angle.
In the last few months I've roundtripped 5k to 50k three times in a row on the same project and I never took profit. I'm now back at 5k. Life is still good, sun is up, supportive friends. I'll take profit next time.
The sad reality in this current meta/era of crypto, if anything happens by chance, and they are jailed, there would be prediction market for Trump's commuting their sentence or full pardon 🫠😅
If there were an American business called NEGRO EXTERMINATION CORP with the motto "Wiping Out All Dirty Negroes From Africa", whose board members were all active KKK members, and it announced a $10m investment in a Nigerian company, you would see Nigerians writing "Congrats!" and "Big moves!" under the announcement.
Then when some Eeyore like me points out that nobody should be celebrating the clearly sinister and predatory investment, you would then get meatheads in the replies saying "If e reach your turn, no collect $10m😂🤣."
So many of you are going to die of your pathological greed and fear of information. It's going to be an absolute bloodbath.
And there's nothing I can do about it.