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Ambassador @OM100m : @6529Museum District digital id: my profile picture is my grandma :)

[thomscribner @foncedechic]

@6529Pizza @NFCsummit 🍕🍕🍕

[🍕 6529Pizza 🍕 @6529Pizza]

The community decided they want pizza @NFCsummit!

We are set!
Join us at 2pm! 🍕

[thomscribner @foncedechic]

@luanalopeslara Happy Birthday 💐

[thomscribner @foncedechic]

listening to the new @Drake and he’s dropping lines about prediction markets @Polymarket

[EzMonet @ezmonet_momonet]

How to submit:

Go to the Keys and Gates Wave and submit your work.

https://t.co/kObAQNJACR

Full details: https://t.co/vX0wQagJNY

Community TDH holders vote to select.

Selected works acquired at 0.5 ETH into permanent museum custody.

Start shooting! 👀

[6529 @punk6529]

For the historical record, the 6529 Network Museum begins with this humble 8.12 ETH contribution. Will be interesting to see where it goes.

[EzMonet @ezmonet_momonet]

This captures 6529 and why I am a part of it…building the best place for the future world 🙏

[thomscribner @foncedechic]

@6529Guardian @Nouriel 🐼🐼🐼

[Riva @rivatez]

Publishing the outcome of several months of research on egg freezing and IVF, some of which shocked me.

Most American women aren't told there are different versions of freezing/IVF protocols— and the version they're offered by default is often the most aggressive. In much of Europe and Japan, women get half (or less) of the same medication for the 'same' procedure and outcomes.

The assumption baked into American fertility medicine is that more is better. More eggs help up to a point; past it, you're buying more hormone exposure and more risk — not necessarily more babies.

Long-term safety data on healthy women taking these protocols repeatedly at these doses doesn't yet exist. The studies that look reassuring follow women for 5-10 years, not 30.

Full essay linked below. I tried to write the overview I couldn't find while making these decisions.

[6529Guardian @6529Guardian]

Had an inspiring day yesterday - thanks @AdamWeitsman for hosting an exceptional convivial dinner and @sergitosergito for convening a Meebits fiesta w @larvalabs Matt & John explaining history & development path.

Adam's dinner: people discussing ideas, not prices, w/ passion!

[6529 @punk6529]

1/ On the 6529 Network Museum

The Memes are a form of decentralized funding protocol - of art, of science, of other things that we want to fund.

The selection is fully decentralized and the execution, mostly but not fully decentralized.

(For now, someone has to press a Trezor button ultimately for the mint to start, though this will change eventually.)

2/ Is this interesting? Is this just specific to The Memes or is the first example of a broader concept?

Well, obviously it is the latter. Today, I would like to propose a second demonstration of something that can be fully decentralized, in this case, a museum

3/ The 6529 Network Museum is a museum that is collectively curated and "owned" by the 6529 network, aka the people who have accrued TDH, aka at a first approximation the meme card holders

4/ By "owned", I mean owned the way the Louvre is owned by the French people, not owned the way I own punk6529.

In other words, I mean "held in perpetuity by the network" +/-, on behalf of the network, but not for any particular member of the network (myself included)

5/ The network museum will not as a general rule sell pieces, it will not distribute eth to network members or anything of the sort. It will be a smart contract ultimately that is controlled by the network forever.

6/ For now it is 3 of 5 multi-sig SAFE with 5 of us charged with transitioning in it to the TDH controlled smart contract - @6529er @itsjpower @gratusmasculus and @HugoFaz

7/ Now the interesting question - how do you run a decentralized museum - we have a theory on how to start. @6529er and I submitted a Meme Card today with a proposed theme for the first collection of the Museum. Any money he and I receive if the Meme Card is selected will be used to fund a network selection and acquisition of pieces from artists within the proposed theme.

8/ Whether or not our proposed collection is good will be determined by the network by TDH.

If our proposed Meme Card and, by extension, collection is selected, the pieces to be collected will also be selected by the network by TDH.

Once they are selected, they will be purchased as newly minted CC0 1/1s for the museum and the meme card will show a compilation of them.

9/ I think (and I apologize in advance for this) that this is pretty smart.

It took me me quite a bit of time to figure out how to do this, but I like the outcome.

a/ Anyone can submit a Meme Card to do this (and I hope people do)
b/ the network decides if they like the collection
c/ the network decides what 1 of 1s to buy
d/ the artists get a 1 of 1 in an extremely permanent collection and distribution to a larger group via the Meme Card compilation
e/ the Meme Card minters get a meme card and an edition of interesting work.

10/ Also, the fact that we are only buying, not selling and not fractionalizing, simplifies many otherwise complex issues.

I know this is going to confuse people, but it all depends on how you look at it.

The purpose of the network is to perform the functions of the state, not of a private individual or company.

11/ Nobody would expect the Smithsonian to be flipping its pieces on eBay or to give a dividend to every American and so the same logic applies here.

12/ There is more detail here: https://t.co/Q8W2bll0By

13/ In any case, we will see how it goes - let's see what the network thinks about all this and if it votes for the card - if so, I think we will learn some interesting things

[thomscribner @foncedechic]

@Orkhan on the way with REP @6529Collections

[David.6529 @punk8164]

NFTs aren’t a trade. They’re a property system.

Before NFTs, digital culture had infinite distribution but zero ownership. Everything spread, nothing could be truly owned. Value went to platforms.

NFTs changed that.

Now culture can spread infinitely and be owned finitely.

That’s a big deal. Especially for art, where value has always come from provenance, story, and cultural relevance. NFTs don’t change those, they upgrade them:

- perfect, global provenance
- infinite distribution without breaking ownership
- borderless, liquid markets

People keep waiting for NFTs to “come back.”

But what’s actually happening is quieter: a parallel system for owning digital culture is compounding in the background.

And most people will miss it.

Because this isn’t about speed or hype like the first NFT cycle. It’s about owning pieces of the internet that matter.

The real question isn’t if NFTs return.

It’s how much of culture moves onchain and who owns it when it does.

[thomscribner @foncedechic]

@wearekent_ 😭😭😭

[Refik Anadol @refikanadol]

Dear friends, being featured on @60minutes is one of the most humbling moments of my life and our studio.

The usual gatekeepers resisted, as they always do with new movements — Impressionism, Photography, and now digital/AI art. But the people have already decided.

[6529 @punk6529]

Meme Card Log #458: we finally got @batsoupyum right where we want him, like Sisyphus, trapped in his own soup can, irrevocably on the blockchain, until the end of time

[thomscribner @foncedechic]

@batsoupyum @punk6529 Mrs Soup would think otherwise

[thomscribner @foncedechic]

@balon_art @redbeardnft Oh my

[batsoupyum @batsoupyum]

Update: we are up to $627k in monetary sponsorship plus some exciting news from the great @refikanadol and some more great offers of help from the fine people around here.

Funding Pledges:
- @0xMQQ $10k across all chains (my apologies for missing this yesterday)
https://t.co/sgKTWLrLWM

- @kruuul $20k
https://t.co/jpKlZsiR4q

- @vote_bitcoin $10k
https://t.co/5RCrPBc5OC

- @JeeradCrypto $20k
https://t.co/i55xBDiqiG

- @refikanadol announces a new digital art collection inspired by you all
https://t.co/zqOS0XnDBp

[6529 @punk6529]

will add $100K to this, with a twist.

we will be starting the world's first networked art collection this month*, so our collecting will be for the network collection, not for the 6529 Museum.

* I just front-run my own announcement but it is for a good cause - details soon