J_F_V

Painting for fun and profit. Twitter scares me tbh.

[Rust Beetle @BeetleRust]

Seeing the whole "AI" vs "No AI" thing unfold is almost exactly the same as seeing "Crypto Twitter vs Art Twitter" ~5 years ago when NFTs first started to get notorious. Can't we have a thing that doesn't devolve into "Team A vs Team B" for once? Sick of absolutims.

[karbon 🐺🦊 @karbonbased]

The real issue I see is for ~50% of America now think crypto = trump
"Oh it's a republican thing"

Turning permissionless blockchains partisans could cause lasting damage to our space and the # of ppl who want to participate.
Not sure "waiting until clarity act passes" as Charles suggests would've helped. We would need high profile dems launching their own projects around the same time as trump to prevent the gop stigma.

In general I think lowering our TAM by dragging crypto squarely into our super divisive partisan politics was a bad decision.

I think we start seeing this manifest post midterms. I see near zero chance cons keep house and senate. They'll lose at least one. Making any pro-crypto legislation challenging in the second half of trumps term.

If we don't get better crypto legislation before then then basically all we've "won" as an industry is a shitty stablecoin bill that favors incumbents and makes novel stablecoins difficult for devs to experiment with and basically a handshake from trump that everything will be fine. Not a huge win for the industry in my mind.

[gino.eth 💽 @GinoTheGhost]

Crypto has lost the plot. I'm tired boss.

This place used to be punk, but it's sold it's soul to the institutions it vowed to dethrone and has lost its identity entirely.

Crypto was intended to be an apolitical rebellion. That's been replaced with pseudo-partisanship, grifting, insider trading, and corruption from the top down.

What drew me to this place was disruption, ownership, art, privacy, truth. A chance to level the playing field. But right now it's just old dogs, new tricks.

CT has become insufferable, too. If I have to read one more fucking ChatGPT info-fi post about some protocol nobody is every going to use to farm some token that nobody is going to hold for more than 17 minutes I'm gonna blow my brains out.

Cozy in spot, and I know it's up only for [my bags] obviously, but I'm deeply disinterested in what's going on here right now. Bummer.

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

@ethereum Buy $RSR and then panic sell after it dumped a little.

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

Hello

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

@flipdrago The first big mass is its nose. The eye is the tiny thing farther back. The hole behind it is a gill opening called an spiracle. Mouth is underneath the body. Source: zoology degree.

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

@vec0zy Best wishes + swift recovery ser

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

Can we stop giving bad actors in the space an audience?

Do Kwon
3AC
Sam Bank Fraud
Countless influencers (à la BitBoy)

They're all trying to start their next thing using each others failures as excuse for their own misdeeds

I'm sick of it

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

@0revenue >he is bullish

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

Many such cases.

[Titan 🏦 @TitanXBT]

I never got why people liked cats, until I found a cat that absolutely loved me.

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

@mewn21

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

@Brentsketit Not sticking around for $ROPE season 2

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

Speak of the devil

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

@0revenue I for one, welcome our new crustacean overlords 🦀

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

10/???
The deep-sea fish featured in the "Viperfish Tempest" background was the subject of the first scientific illustration that I ever made (2012):

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

It's time for some more
@SurrealsNFT trivia, featuring the Midnight collection! Here, I'll share some behind the scenes stuff and cut content.

1/??? ⬇️

[J_F_V @Jay_Eff_Vee]

9/???
The "Phantom's Mask" accessory is a reference to the thriller "The Phantom of the Opera" (1910):