I would enjoy seeing you @AdamWeitsman get involved with @AbstractChain NFTs especially @bigcoinmining
It’s pretty cool and the team and the community of miners are helpful 😀
scrap metal recycling 🤝 $BIG mining
Some clarification on how the NFT boosts system will work:
- Every week we will run a query of the top NFT collections
- This will give us 5 collections that we will give a boost to in the FOLLOWING week. That means this week will not give you a boost, but we will show which collections will give a boost for next week.
- These collections will be ranked 1-5 based on the onchain metrics we're looking at, the higher the ranking the higher the boost
- Users will receive the highest boost they're eligible for, they will not get stacked boosts
- Users must own the NFT at the time we query the top collections AND at the time XP is distributed. They cannot simply buy after the top collections are announced.
- Everything we're querying for is based off of an internal Dune dashboard that looks primarily at onchain data, so please don't DM me asking why [insert NFT you hold] wasn't eligible.
- This system is dynamic and is subject to change based on the feedback we receive
The people have spoke and Abstract answered.
Meanwhile I'm just sitting here mining @bigcoinmining daily.
I SMH at the people that couldn't even last 30 days voting to get a boost. 🤣
I say this with respect because I genuinely believe in you and wanted to build high quality projects on Abstract.
We keep trying to bring attention to these issues not to spread FUD, but because we have genuinely worked our asses off building successful projects on Abstract, including @BigP00l, @zerotohero, and stepping in as CTO of @bigcoinmining , which would have completely died if we had not taken it over.
We spent a significant amount of money on audits and smart contract development to build Merge Mining, which has been fully functional for nearly four months now. The problem is that we cannot launch a coin when there is no volume on the chain.
At one point we even offered a $10,000 bounty for any team planning to launch a worthy coin on Abstract. Not a single team responded.
Because of that, the only logical path forward for Big Coin was to pivot and turn it into a first of its kind launchpad that is sniper resistant. Instead of allowing anyone to launch a token, projects would need to work directly with us and receive approval. That way our community and holders would know that if something launches through the platform, it has been thoroughly vetted and is safe to participate in.
One of the main reasons teams are not launching coins on Abstract is because early on a number of KOLs and KOL groups were insider launching coins. People lost money. The fastest way to lose users on a young chain is to have them get burned.
We did not just believe in Abstract. We cared enough to be thoughtful about what we were building. Instead of chasing quick financial gains, we wanted to build strong projects that would actually help the ecosystem succeed.
For example, the last project that attempted dynamic traits at scale was Memeland Captains, which raised over $61 million. They still have not successfully delivered dynamic traits, and their art has not even been completed after more than two years.
When we launched @zerotohero, we deliberately chose Abstract because we believed in the vision of the chain. Our goal was to launch the first fully dynamic collection with gender swap functionality, dynamic traits, and an innovative closet system.
We raised $480,000 and delivered everything within one month of launch.
Since then we have reached over 100 million GIPHY views in three months and we are consistently seeing hundreds of thousands of views on our animated shorts across social platforms. We have a world class animator on our team and we typically produce a new animation every day. Since September 4th we have created around 45 unique animated shorts.
We also launched a monthly trait subscription model, another first in the space. On top of that we have hosted four different week long holiday trait events that were completely free for holders, and we have collaborated with Gigaverse, OnChain Heroes, and Aborean.
Yet somehow we were not even included in Abstract Wrapped. 😂
Our cult like community rallied and on February 6th we generated 30 million GIPHY views the same day we were not included in Abstract Wrapped.
There are not even that many strong projects on the chain, so it is honestly hard to understand how the team could be unaware of the projects that are consistently building and delivering.
I reached out to the ecosystem team and it was honestly surprising that many of them were not even familiar with the project. Some messages I sent over a month ago still have not received a response.
Meanwhile a project like Ultraman, which clearly extracted money from users, receives a badge and likely will never build anything meaningful again.
Cryptoys was promoted with a badge and XP even though it was a recycled project that had already failed on Flow.
If you continue hearing the same concerns from multiple teams, it might be time to listen.
What is frustrating is watching project after project that gets promoted fail, while teams that are working hard, delivering value to the ecosystem are ignored.
While I agree with most of this post, addicted(dot)fun was a fork of Bigcoin.
By all metrics, Bigcoin was the most novel crypto experiment in 2025 with countless of forks on every chain.
If the people want crypto experiments, the people will get crypto experiments.
2026. Happy Anniversary Abstract.
Gmabs and happy XP day ✳️
Another weeks gone by and I bought some @BigHossbot & @bigcoinmining.
I am currently not moving anywhere since it is the third week with mid 80k but I am very confident with this amount 🙌🏻
How about you, how was your week?
This is a pretty crazy video of Thiel talking about how Bitcoin has been co-opted by Blackrock and the government (in his view)
"There’s the question of the ideological founding vision of Bitcoin and these cryptocurrencies as a cypherpunk, crypto-anarchist, libertarian, anti–centralized government thing — that’s what I thought was terrific about it.
The question is: does it really work that way, or has that thread gotten lost?
When people in the FBI tell me they’d much rather have criminals use Bitcoin than 100-dollar bills, it suggests maybe it’s not working the way it was supposed to.
Have I sold any of my Bitcoin? I still hold some. I didn’t buy as much as I should have. I’m not sure it’s going to go up that dramatically from here. We got the ETF addition, and I don’t know who else buys it quickly from here. I still have a small position; it probably still can go up some, but it’s going to be a volatile, bumpy ride.
I had a dual reason: one was the ideological decentralized future of computing that I really do believe would be better, and it seemed like the perfect vehicle for that for such a long time.
I am much less convinced of that now. Maybe Larry Fink with the BlackRock ETF surrendered to the ESG forces, or maybe Bitcoin’s been co‑opted by them — and I worry it’s more the latter.”
$BIG Today I added another diesel miner to my small @bigcoinmining room on @AbstractChain .
Right now feels like a good phase to scale this slowly and thoughtfully.
The plan is to install 8 more miners and expand the space while costs are still low. In my view, these miners are among the most liquid assets in the ecosystem easy to move and likely to retain solid resale value if the project continues to develop.
Slow build, flexible exit. That’s the approach.