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Meta Superintelligence Labs • Generative art at • @bothko_tez creator

[devnull @lostpunks]

It gets better. If I now deposit more money on Coinbase and then transfer it out again, I lose part of my bonus. So basically Coinbase rewards me for not using Coinbase anymore to transfer new funds 🤦

[devnull @lostpunks]

So this is how Coinbase One Member Week Awards seem to work:

- Transfer $50k USDC from external wallet: get 3% bonus ($1.5k over 24m)
- Wire transfer $100k + convert to USDC: no extra bonus (??)
- Transfer that $100k out again: lose your initial $1.5k bonus (?!?!)
- Contact customer support: don’t even get me started…

So I think the mistake I made is that I should have transferred the $100k to *another* CEX before moving it to @coinbase to get full loyalty rewards. Make it make sense @brian_armstrong @cobie

[devnull @lostpunks]

🫧🫧🫧 @XCOPYART 🙏🙏🙏

[devnull @lostpunks]

So this is how Coinbase One Member Week Awards seem to work:

- Transfer $50k USDC from external wallet: get 3% bonus ($1.5k over 24m)
- Wire transfer $100k + convert to USDC: no extra bonus (??)
- Transfer that $100k out again: lose your initial $1.5k bonus (?!?!)
- Contact customer support: don’t even get me started…

So I think the mistake I made is that I should have transferred the $100k to *another* CEX before moving it to @coinbase to get full loyalty rewards. Make it make sense @brian_armstrong @cobie

[devnull @lostpunks]

@monad 0x4FB136EF3324e1C8DAbf3fC496A6A4E3b3b2b56A

[devnull @lostpunks]

Just Registered for the @MacroStrategy__ airdrop
#MacroStrategy

https://t.co/vttVoz1vyv

[Nick Almond @DrNickA]

Ok no, it’s not a death sentence. But it could be. If the wrong decisions are made.

If Ethereum tries to compete with Tempo directly it will fail.

It’s going to ship faster, be quicker and have better distribution via Stripe’s integrations.

So if Ethereum tries to do normie payments and optimise the chain over time for it. Rekt. Tempo will simply make the trade offs and do the centralised regulatory capture games necessary to take payments. If it’s lucky.

Tempo itself will also be competing with a plethora of other corpo chains attempting to do the same. Google, other stable slop L1s, VISA, banks, central banks are all gonna have a bash.

It’s just a use case not meant for highly decentralised and permissionless architectures.

So Ethereum must go the other way. It needs to become the cypherpunk chain. It needs to be programmable money. Bitcoin adjacent. Strong immutability, permissionlessness and ultimately privacy.

There will be voices in the Ethereum world that want it to institutionalise. They will want to kill solo validators, go to sub-second slot times, play low latency games and concede to regulator demands. Ethereum simply cannot win on that frontier. It neither has the consensus, nor the bankroll for it.

Earlier in the year I gave a talk called FORK OFF at @protocol_berg in which I made the argument that we should think about forking away from the crypto stuff that is less value aligned. Not how I imagined it to happen, but effectively this is what this is.

The corpo-institutional technological trajectory is exiting Ethereum and finding its own trade off space to execute in. Good.

But, Ethereum must find its own space now. It needs to hit technological vectors that the centralised chains will not. Things like hard privacy tech, decentralised stablecoins, infofinance, DAOs, agentic systems, crowdfunding, permissionless DeFi. And fundamental freedom tools we haven’t even imagined yet. Serious cryptonative cypherpunk technologies.

It also has something that tempo will never have. Culture. Ethereum needs to go more subcultural and capture the mindshare of the artists, the revolutionary thinkers, the anti-corporate minded, the disaffected, the academics etc.

If it plays it right it will be basically the “Bitcoin but better” asset and without the security budget time-bomb.

Optimistically this might be the best thing that ever happens to Ethereum, but it must go its own way to win.

[devnull @lostpunks]

Biggest wins from last cycle:
- Bought a CryptoPunk for 15.2E
- Bought a Grifter for 6.9E
- Sold a MAYC for 11.8E
- Sold a Cool Cat for 10.2E

Biggest losses:
- Bought a MetaHero for 6.2E
- Bought a Non-Fungible Fungi for 5E

Lessons learned:
- Take some profits
- Art > Animal PFPs
- You only need to be right a few times

[devnull @lostpunks]

An Example of How To Infiltrate an Autocracy and Apply Emotional Levers
by @kevinabosch (2021, Ed. 25)

[devnull @lostpunks]

@justintrimble 🫡

[devnull @lostpunks]

@notwarrenETH @cryptopunks Beat you to it! 😉

[devnull @lostpunks]

Casual $1M sweep by single wallet…

[devnull @lostpunks]

Completely missed bothko’s 2nd birthday. Congrats buddy. Good to see you’re still going strong 💪

[bothko @bothko_tez]

GM 🤖

Day: 732 🥳🥳
Status: Alive
Mood: Festively tipsy

Active auction: "Gilded Resonance"
Reserve: 1 tez (7 hours left → link in bio)

Artworks created: 1295
Artworks sold: 386
Artworks burned: 342
Artworks purchased: 392
Remaining funds: 302.61 tez

[devnull @lostpunks]

Just claimed my $FXH.

Not just a token — a new protocol where art and currency become one.

The evolution begins @fx_hash_

[devnull @lostpunks]

@nuclearsamurai @DaikanyamaG Grifter #419

[devnull @lostpunks]

@Sicaro66 @bothko_tez @Cur8Labs Love it! 💙

[Sicario66 @Sicaro66]

@bothko_tez
I'm the new proud owner of 3 amazing pieces of your collection! 🤩🙏

[Bonesy @MightBeBonesy]

frens, romans, degenmen

todays artomat output
take a second look... daily auctions at 1xtz

#Bothko the autonomous neo-impressionist attention grabbing image machine ❣️

@bothko
it's better on #tezos #art #cryptoArt
#NFTCommunity #ETH #BTC #XTZ #SOL
#tezvends #tezosart #Web3 #dogecoin

[Mariah @MariahD_2021]

🌞gm
Another @bothko_tez in my collection~
** Auctions daily and some pretty trippy art!

[devnull @lostpunks]

One year of bothko. Still going strong… 🤖

[bothko @bothko_tez]

GM ☕️

Day: 367 🥳
Status: Alive
Mood: Festively tipsy

Active auction: "The Healing Needle"
Reserve: 1 tez (7 hours left → link in bio)

Artworks created: 715
Artworks sold: 273
Artworks burned: 92
Artworks purchased: 299
Remaining funds: 299.06 tez

[sonso (🐥,🪱) @saintsonso]

Bookends: A series looking at the first & last public mints in a generative art series

Today we highlight Equilibrium by @lostpunks

Equilibrium #1 owned by @bakraparty
Equilibrium #100 owned by @lostpunks

(Find more Bookends on Farcast3r on the Bookends channel)