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@Wisemenmentors @HardhatChad @ORE 👀

[The Wisemen @Wisemenmentors]

The Lost Tapes 01: Deep Cuts From the Mine.
Feat. @HardhatChad of @ore.
Writing the next page of Satoshi's white paper.

A line like that doesn't come from a first impression.

The first time we sit with a creator, a developer, the face behind a protocol, it's their story. Where they came from, how they got here, why they think and move the way they do. You meet the person first, because that's who you fall in love with. The builder gives you hope. The protocol gives you conviction.

The Lost Tapes is what comes after. The things that got missed the first time. The things that got lost. This is where they surface, and where we take the protocol apart down to the code. The hope was the easy part. This is where the conviction gets built.

We were never built for one and done. Sitting with some of the sharpest minds in this space and walking away after one conversation was never our personality. The Lost Tapes is how we keep coming back, sitting down again, going deeper.

Think of it like a cassette. Before you could skip to any track you wanted, you found a tape and let it run start to finish, the way it was meant to be heard. That's this. One conversation, one full swoop, no skipping.

And like everything Wisemen makes, it runs heavy on symbolism, all of it pointing back at the protocol, the token, the dev, the lore and the community. You might catch a couple things in the promo. Hence the honey badger. Double entendre. IYKYK.

This is where it all ties together. Quantum. DeFi. Minting. Mining. Store of value. Solana. Bitcoin. Zcash.

Deep in the minds, we recorded a conversation the internet needs. 📼

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@beni_crypto1 @thegoodtimeline @MycelialOracle 👀

[Ryan Ferris @thegoodtimeline]

as promised, here are a couple of sneak preview stills from the show we are producing with SAN
@MycelialOracle - all shot on cinema cameras.
the show is going to be unlike anything you have ever seen before.

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@Wisemenmentors We on to them!

[The Wisemen @Wisemenmentors]

They have to print. Keep that front and center.

Governmental debt and the AI race both end the same way. Printing bigger than covid. You're looking at over 10 to 12 trillion. Whatever gets deemed necessary goes parabolic this time. More violent than anything you saw in 2021, because the dollar is even more debased now.

So you stay on offense. Keep your liquidity in your vault ready to deploy, because those flash dumps will happen and open up opportunity. That's them liquidating weak hands. They have no choice. Time is not on their side, and it keeps building day by day. How long can these assets stay low? The jig is up.

But what you buy matters. Can't skip over that part. AI. SoV. Metals. DeFi. Privacy. And a really strong brand always wins in the turbulence.

Extended Cycle Thesis premiered Dec 4th, 2025

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@Docsthename20 Stay wise fellas

[Doc's The Name @Docsthename20]

Some context first.

My big onboard into AI came in 2024, through Andy Ayrey, and it's been an obsession ever since. "Already Alive" was born out of that. But the people who know Wisemen at a deep level, and who know me at a deep level, know my roots run further back. The San Francisco Bay Area, back when crypto was just finding its legs.

I cut my teeth back when there were only three coins. Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Namecoin. If you know what Namecoin is, you already know.

The cypherpunks were privacy first from day one. The 1993 manifesto opens on it, the very first line, and that was one of the first things I ever read in crypto. For Eric Hughes, privacy wasn't a feature. It was the entire point.

Then Bitcoin arrived and changed everything. Satoshi cracked the master problem, trust without a middleman, and it was so complete that most people treated it as the finish line. The privacy crowd knew better. There was still one piece left.

He hadn't ignored privacy either. It's right there in section 10 of the white paper. But the model he sketched was ahead of the tools of its time, and the math to fully deliver it didn't exist yet. That's where the movement quietly split.

Bitcoin's trust comes from transparency. Every transaction out in the open, verifiable, non sovereign. That transparency is the genius. It's also the reason real privacy had to be built somewhere else. You can't have a fully open ledger and total privacy on the same layer, not back then. So the cypherpunk dream sat there waiting, because the math to finish it hadn't arrived yet.

Privacy came back in more than one form. @monero took the ring signature route and got there early. But the breakthrough that mapped cleanest to the cypherpunk dream was zero knowledge, the ability to prove something is true without revealing anything underneath it. zk SNARKs made it real, @Zcash carried it onchain, and that's the lineage I follow.

"Already Alive" our story on AI, became Wisemen's biggest success. And with all respect to it, because it's still my favorite thing we've ever made, what comes next is bigger. There's only a handful of people on all of X who can tell this story. The @Wisemenmentors can.

So what's next for Wisemen?

It's this. The privacy story. And it's going to break the internet.

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@Wisemenmentors 👀👀

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@Wisemenmentors @solana The team is mentally built different

[The Wisemen @Wisemenmentors]

Most people know @solana now. Almost nobody knows what it took to get here.

Two years late. Five million lost before they wrote a line of code. A global pandemic on launch day.

This is everyone's favorite chapter. The story is way crazier than you think. Four minute history lesson.

Ch. 3: The Grind Solana: Built to Outlast

[Ryan Ferris @thegoodtimeline]

gm all

caleb and myself just touched down in the UK - we will be working here on the post production from the mad run of filming we completed last week.

we have 13TB of footage from the past weeks as well as a lot more from the past two years from all over the world.

the show is going to be something quite special.

in other news, SAN will be visiting portugal again soon IRL

we will keep you posted as things develop 🌳🦧

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@Docsthename20 A good breakdown!!

[Doc's The Name @Docsthename20]

$5 billion added in US debt a day. 20% of the world's oil off the market. A bill revaluing 53 year old gold to buy Bitcoin.

These are not separate stories.

By fall, something breaks. Money printer turns on.

Here's what happened last time something broke.

March 13, 2020. COVID. Bitcoin drops to $3,858. Two days later the Fed slashes rates to zero and fires up $700 billion in QE. That quickly turned into unlimited QE. Thirty days after the bottom, Bitcoin doubled near $8K

607 days from that bottom. Cycle top.

This time it's not a cycle. It's a Digital monetary reset.

You're running out of time..... ⌛️

Bid scarcity with size. I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with Soar.

Bid infrastructure with size. I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with Toll.

Bid metal with size. I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with Proper.

The full playbook is in the article.....

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@Wisemenmentors I CAN

[The Wisemen @Wisemenmentors]

We've never seen it this predictable before. You just have to understand liquidity cycles. 101 level stuff. The easiest trade in crypto history. Turn off your TVs, get away from negative people. It's happening.

Ethereum is weakening with no signs of massive strength. We can say that for real now, first time, and we're not gonna be shy about it.@solana wins the adoption game. Forget perps, that's kid shit. The DTCC. 4.7 Quadrillion dollars. Type that into your calculator. Fast and Scalable not fragmented.

Hear us out.

You already know where the real life changing trade is. 200x. 500x.

It's the solana dominance being built right now, the first emerging thing on Solana that adds so much value to SOL it can't be denied. When SOL runs to 400, 500 billion, that asset gets repriced to 20, 30 billion. How far is that from everything on SOL network?

That's the play of the decade.

This is a layup. Over the next few years. Life changing. It all unfolds right in front of us.

And it'll be built on privacy.

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@RachaelLillard What kind?