Buttcoin turns 15 years old today!
It's officially our #ButtcoinBirthday.
Back in early 2011, someone on a dying internet comedy forum, in a thread about a newly created digital currency called "Bitcoin", asked a simple question:
"Has anyone called them Buttcoins yet?"
15 years ago today, I decided to buy a domain, get a logo created, set up a website, a Twitter account, a subreddit and a Facebook page to document the early days of crypto. There was so much happening so quickly, much of it hilarious, that I wanted to share it with the world.
We are an important part of the crypto landscape. We shone a light on the industry, dug up scams and lies, and also found funny moments to share and major events to highlight.
We grew to become a major part of not just early crypto culture, but of internet history as well:
- We reported on the rise and fall of Mt. Gox.
- We broke the news of the fall of MyBitcoin, the first major exchange hack.
- We had Satoshi's name and logo replaced with ours on the official Bitcoin code repository
- We had write-up in major publications such as Wired, TechCrunch and the Washington Post.
- We led to the downfall of major crypto hardware maker Butterfly Labs
- We had our website seized by the FTC and our names entered into government record
Over the years the Twitter account grew and and had many interactions with people like Vitalik, cobie and other important members of crypto.
The subreddit grew to a quarter million members, growing faster that nearly all other crypto subreddits at the time.
And the website was preserved as an important part of historical documentation.
And in January of this year, we launched the $Buttcoin token to celebrate the history, the culture, and build that fun community aspect of Buttcoin again. What we've accomplished in that short 4 month window, with thousands of people joining us, is nothing short of incredible.
So thank you to everyone for 15 wonderful years of being a talking cartoon butt. I can't wait to see what the next 15 hold!
(I tried to get an ice cream cake with a picture of a butt on it but I'm now banned from my Baskin Robbins for life)
“Send $Troll to $288m
Wonderful!
Very well..
Now nuke it down to $10m and make them all give up and think its dead
Good… good
Now send it to $6.9 billion.”
gm
$Troll is now over $30m
Not going to celebrate cuz we know billions is the only thing reasonable for such a historic mount rushmore meme
But i’d like to highlight something:
RESILIENCE
We lost some ppl along the way but for those ones who stuck around despite it all..
this is why you believe.. this is why we dca.. this is why we stick together.
We all kept showing up.. NO MATTER WHAT!
I’m human, of course this wasnt fun when shit looked bad, of course i second guessed even myself.. but I never had it in me to sell.
Getting to 1billion was never gonna be easy, but the journey will make it soooo worth it.
Job no where near done.
Lets show this space how to believe again and the art of never giving up.
Time to make history.
Troll History:
In 2010, Trollface Quest a popular series of point-and-click puzzle games based on the Trollface meme, focusing on absurd, illogical solutions designed to "troll" the player was created.
The game has surpassed almost 100 million installs, and still has a large player base to this day, 16 years later. Even strong enough for players to have made a wiki fandom webpage with almost 600 pages.
🚨BREAKING🚨
Troll x @Shillz_Official is live!
This platform incentivizes bag working and quality/ creative shilling
We have one of the best communities on X and its time for yall to see something out of your hard work more than just the coin going up!
I thought this was a great idea and initiative to start so I funded the first campaign with $3k worth of troll
LONG LIVE BAG WORKERS.