Fourteens.sol 🩸

Founder of @VirulentNFT & @TheVileMerch . futarchy believer . i don’t chase success, i hunt it.

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

The digital world is moving fast , and NFT projects need smarter and fairer ways to make decisions.

I’ve been inspired by MetaDAO’s Futarchy model, where decisions are guided by data and prediction markets, not emotions or hype.

Real transparency.

https://t.co/svdU5fRYJs

[Phantom @phantom]

ICYMI, the SpaceX pre-IPO perps market is live for trading on Phantom 💫

[Umbra Privacy @UmbraPrivacy]

Umbra Web, live now.

https://t.co/TKnAMpWyb0

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Radical truth and radical transparency are fundamental to having a real idea meritocracy. The more people can see what is happening— the good, the bad, and the ugly—the more effective they are at deciding the appropriate ways of handling things. This approach is also invaluable for training: Learning is compounded and accelerated when everyone has the opportunity to hear what everyone else is thinking. As a leader, you will get the feedback essential for your learning and for the continual improvement of the organization’s decision-making rules. And seeing firsthand what’s happening and why builds trust and allows people to make the independent assessments of the evidence that a functioning idea meritocracy requires. #principleoftheday

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Paul Graham’s advice for future startup founders: “Just learn”

“If you make a conscious effort to try and think of startup ideas, you will think of ideas that are not only bad but bad and plausible-sounding—meaning you and everybody else will be fooled by them and you’ll waste a lot of time before realizing they’re no good.”

As Paul Graham explains, the way to come up with good startup ideas is to take a step back:

“Instead of trying to make a conscious effort to think of startup ideas, turn your brain into the type that has startup ideas unconsciously.”

You do this by:

1. Learning a lot about things that matter

2. Working on problems that interest you

3. With people you like and respect (this is incidentally how you get co-founders at the same time as the idea)

“The component of entrepreneurship that really matters is domain expertise. Larry Page is Larry Page because he was an expert on search. And he became an expert on search because he was genuinely interested in it, not because of some ulterior motive.”

PG continues:

“At its best, starting a startup is merely an ulterior motive for curiosity, and you’ll do it best if you introduce the ulterior motive at the end of the process. So here is the ultimate advice for young, would-be startup founders reduced to two words: Just learn.”

Video source: @ycombinator (2017)

[hårkl @harkl_]

A demo like this on https://t.co/92PCQFH8Xz with live mainnet transactions for fractions of a cent with sub second confirmation is literally ONLY POSSIBLE ON @solanapayments

Others LARP
@Solana just works in prod

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

Our work on the viru app is temporarily on hold as our developer is taking a short break in their province. It’s also holiday season, and we’re managing our offline businesses, so progress has slowed down a bit.

Thank you for your patience and steady support ,it means a lot

[𝑽𝒊𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝐃𝐀𝐎 🩸 @VirulentNFT]

Quick update, Virufam:

The viru app is temporarily on hold as our developer is currently taking a break . We’re busy with our offline businesses, so progress is slower than usual.

We will fully resume development in January 2026.

Thank you for your patience 🤍

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

People often spend money on useless things just to look good to others,.especially to people they don’t even care about.

In the end, it’s a pointless cycle that doesn’t make life better.

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

@moonpay @mytonwallet_io Nice, moonpay

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

@CoinMarketCap Big move.. interesting

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

@BitcoinArchive @Gemini From what i’ve seen in past #bitcoin cycles, december is usually a slow month because many investors take profits or withdraw for the holidays.

So I don’t think we’ll hit $100K this month. based on history, bitcoin often gets stronger early in the new year, around Feb.

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

@BitcoinArchive True. #bitcoin is powered by energy, so calling it a store of energy makes sense.
Cool to see a top CEO understanding it.

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

@garyvee True. the free attention on social media is a big chance for anyone.

No more excuses, just start posting what you care about and grow from there.

[Naval @naval]

The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

gm 🌞 from my side to yours #Web3 never sleeps.

[𝑽𝒊𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝐃𝐀𝐎 🩸 @VirulentNFT]

Perfection is a trap. It’s better to start now, learn as you go, and improve step by step.

Small, steady progress beats waiting forever for the perfect moment.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Stay small until you figured out what's working.” — @naval

[Fourteens.sol 🩸 @fourteens_sol]

@garyvee this absolutely true💜

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

Why are we so interested in beating ourselves up … and always labeling things like “wasting time” ect .. even if you actually did “waste” if you’re seeing this video .. you can go into “adjusting mode”
Please stop 🛑 beating yourself up … eveyone else wasted time too ❤️❤️❤️❤️‼️

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Paul Graham's "Bus Ticket Theory of Genius"

[Naval @naval]

Great Engineers are Also Artists.

“I characterize art as something that is done for its own sake, and done well, and often creates a sense of beauty or some strong emotion.

And a lot of engineers are introverts.

As an aside, I hate the term “incel.” It’s just a way of putting introverts down. It’s the new “nerd,” if you will. If someone says that somebody is an incel, I’m more likely to want to interview them. So let’s move away from the slurs.

But introverts tend to want to express themselves through other things rather than going out and expressing themselves directly. So what are they going to do? They’re going to express themselves through their craft. They’re going to create art.

In my current company, at least half the engineers have serious artwork they’ve done on the side. World-class artwork—everything from elegant mathematical proofs to beautiful computer art, to literally sculpting things with clay, designing clothing, designing doorknobs, water bottles. There’s one who’s done incredible music videos, really good stuff. And I see a lot of the better engineers tinker with the AI art products, much more so than even so-called artists do. I think a lot of artists are scared by AI art products saying, “This is going to replace me.” Whereas someone who doesn’t have that identity of an artist and doesn’t feel threatened by it—it’s just a tool and they try it out to see what it can create.

Anything done for its own sake and done as well as one possibly can is art. And great engineers are also artists. They’re capable of anything. It’s just they’ve chosen to be engineers and focused on building things because engineering is the ability to turn your ideas and your art into things that actually work, that do something useful, that embody some knowledge in a way that it can be repeated and people can get utility out of it. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t be beautiful.”