let me tell you a story of someone who wants to make it in the crazy space that is the solana trenches.
a guy in his mid 20s quits his job to pursue crypto full time. finds a meme he falls in love with. gets rugged on it. decides the meme is too good to die, so he relaunches it himself. live on camera. no team. no backing. just a feeling.
the first 48 hours it hits 4.2 million. the timeline is on fire. betas are being made left and right. the community is the happiest place in the trenches. for two days it feels like everything is about to change.
then people rotate. because that's what people do. but he doesn't.
as days go by, the chart bleeds. he watches it fall from millions to 200k and instead of walking away he puts in his own money. keeps pouring creator rewards back into the chart. gets scammed. gets betrayed. gets hate. but he keeps going. even gets his friends and family in.
now its christmas eve. a miracle happens. the chart touches 1 million. he could take something. anything. after a week of grinding he could finally breathe. instead he locks 2% more supply. doesn't sell a single token.
after that, it only goes down over 4 months. 500k. 300k. 200k. 100k. 50k. 30k. choppy. quiet. for months. but he's still there. making tshirts by hand. printing stickers with @Pumpfun QR codes. creating memes every day. livestreaming. still believing when the numbers say he shouldn't.
until one day he can't anymore. not because he stopped believing. because he ran out. personally. financially. he gave everything and there was nothing left to give. so he https'd. for the first time in 4 months.
about a week later he posts a simple tweet. just his pnl and the words "i tried." he's sitting at dinner when his phone starts going off. the chart is at 160k. people saw the post and sent it. he's holding zero supply watching the coin he built pump without him. ecstatic and heartbroken at the same time.
it dumps back down. but now it has eyes.
a few days later he makes another post. this time it catches. really catches. a coin gets made about him highlighting the story. his very coin that he believes in, starts getting traction again. over an hour, it hits 550k.
he gets on livestream with his fiancé and they're both just sitting there smiling because for the first time in months it feels like people actually see what he's been building.
that's the story so far. SO FAR. because he believes it's not over. he believes this story gets deeper. more magical. that the best chapter hasn't been written yet. and so does a community that hasn't stopped bagworking since the resurgance.
now put yourself in his shoes for a second. would you have stayed past month one? month two? month three? would you have locked supply on christmas eve instead of taking profits? would you have kept making tshirts for a coin at 30k?
most people wouldn't. most people didn't. and that's exactly why this story matters. because in a space full of people who leave, one person stayed. and the few who stayed with him are still here.
this isn't just a coin. it's the most human story in the trenches right now. its a movement. after all this space has been through, this kind of story is only possible in crypto.
and it has the ability to create real change.
in times like these, where it seems crypto cant get any worse, what is the one thing that has ALWAYS fixed things?
pumping a dog to absurdly high valuations.
it is an https market after all
in times like these, where it seems crypto cant get any worse, what is the one thing that has ALWAYS fixed things?
pumping a dog to absurdly high valuations.
it is an https market after all
I want to shoutout @MuriCrypt, he is one of many day 1 https holders who ive gotten to know through the coin.
He has been putting $https stickers all over Brooklyn and NYC almost every day for many months.
He held through the 99% dip and never lost faith no matter what, always kept working.
It’s people like him that restore my faith in this space, and is one of the many reasons why https is a 100m+ cult coin.
🎶Ain’t it fun
Livin’ in the real world?
Ain’t it good
Bein’ all alone?
Ain’t it good to be on your own?
Ain’t it fun you can’t count on no one?
Ain’t it good to be on your own?
Ain’t it fun
Livin’ in the real world? 🎶
commerce on the internet did not take off until we went from http to https
the same will be true of blockchains
privacy is the final scaling frontier in crypto
i lost 70k+ building a memecoin i love over the course of 6 months. then i ran out of money. ran out of options. i sold pico bottom with nothing left to give, after giving everything.
then i just started telling the truth on X. no strategy. no game plan. just honesty, about my experience of being in the trenches everyday for a year and a half straight, what i've learned, and how the trenches need change.
over 2 weeks those posts hit a million views total and the trenches sent https from 30k to over a 1M mc. a dream come true.
then it dipped 75% in 2 days.
and honestly? that's the whole point.
the attention came. people felt the story. they bought in. and then they did what the trenches always do. they https'd. my thesis is being proven in real time and the chart is the evidence.
but this isn't an https problem. this is a market problem. we're stuck in a loop and the 75% dip after a million dollar run is all the proof you need. even when something so real shows up, the trenches can't help themselves. the rotation muscle memory is too strong. people https before they even realize what they were holding.
and that's what needs to change. not the coins. not the platforms. the behavior.
how many coins have you watched pump and dump this month that you can't even remember the name of? how many times have you sold something and watched it run without you because you couldn't sit still for a day?
the space keeps asking where the runners are while refusing to let anything run. we are the ceiling.
but here's what gives me hope. https dipped 75% and the community didn't flinch. they're raiding nonstop. flooding CT. sharing the story with people who haven't heard it yet. not because anyone told them to. because they believe in what this represents.
that's rare. that's the thing the trenches keep saying they want but won't commit to. https has it. right now. in real time.
i'm 24. i've been in these trenches every day for a year and a half. i don't have all the answers. but i've lost enough and learned enough to know that what the majority is doing right now isn't working.
this market is an https market. there will always be pumps and dumps. that's never changing. but i will do my absolute best to use my voice and what i've learned to be the change i want to see, through the layered meme that is https.
if you feel the same way, read the quoted. and ask yourself if you're part of the loop or ready to break it
try explaining to someone with a 9-5 that you quit your day job a year and a half ago at 24 and are now building a community around a dog in a tuxedo on the internet.
that you still believe in it after losing 70k+ and going broke. that your story is now garnering millions of views. they'll politely smile and change the subject.
but that's the thing about this space. the people who get it don't need it explained. and the people who don't get it won't understand until the results speak for themselves.
i've been through every version of "it's over" this market has to offer. https bled from 4.2m to 9k. lost more than most people my age have made. sold pico bottom with nothing left to give. and then told the truth about it and a million people read it because the story resonated with something real.
life doesn't go in a straight line. neither does crypto. the people who win aren't the ones who never lost. they're the ones who lost, learned, and kept walking the same direction anyway.
the market is tough right now. but this is the part of the story that looks bad before it looks obvious. it always is. and i'd rather be building through this than watching from the sidelines wishing i had.
it's an https market. people are httpsing everything right now. but the ones who hold through this part are the ones who won't have to https when it matters most.
crypto and tokenized culture play a major role in the future of this world, you just have to believe long enough to see it through, despite the bumps along the way.
Https is holding so well you’d think it’s paired with USDC.
Well, it’s paired with something stronger actually.
6+ months of belief, blood sweat and tears, hard work, conviction, 1000’s of pieces of content, a timeless meme, and one unreplicable story that is just beginning
This is the $https way. Few.