this is a long read, but i had some time to think over dinner and wanted to share a few thoughts and provide a plan forward:
0. i’ve had a lot of very memorable days on the internet over the past 30 years, but this one tops them all. my wife yi and i are unbelievably grateful to the SOL community. as a reminder - 100% of every penny we've made from this, across every kitkat/memecoin, including LP fees will be going directly to rare disease research (minus any tax obligations).
i will work on a way to verify this commitment transparently with the community in the form of donation receipts. thankfully the chain is already publicly auditable.
1. a lot people seem very upset that early traders made a lot of money off of $MIRA. i don't get this at all. they made a good investment early, and got rewarded for it. good on them.
when we originally started our gofundme, we were hoping to contribute maybe $2-300K or so beyond what we donated early this year to hankinson lab for christmas.
now, even if we don't sell a single token more, we're going to send them at least $1M this christmas. that's INCREDIBLE - and it makes such a huge difference. the reality is if those early people didn't make these moves, the lab would be worse off. providing more funding for research is the only thing that matters to me here, full stop.
how much degens make or lose money in the pvp trenches of pump is not something that is any of my business. if you made a lot of money, i'm genuinely happy for you - but please consider donating some of your profits to hankinson lab., if you lost a lot of money, i’m very sorry - but magic internet money is magic internet money.
2. at least a few crazies in mentions think that i was somehow on the “inside” and this entire thing has been some kind of conspiracy - if you're one of them, i just don’t know what to tell you.
i have a day job and it is not degening magic internet money. i run a company funded by a16z called https://t.co/H4cYVauj1h, and we work on non-crypto finance software for cfos. nowdays, by night i do deep research into craniopharyngiomas and related brain tumors. i literally didn’t have a personal SOL address until yesterday.
crypto wasn’t even a payment option outside of gofundme until folks asked me for one, and when i gave them one it was my ENS. the idea that i would have the time and even know how to do something like this is wildly unbelievable.
3. i am not elon - between running a growing startup, dealing with my daughter’s medical condition, and other obligations, i simply don’t have the bandwidth to manage a crypto anything. so my constraints on a path forward are:
1) to maximize support to rare disease research by providing predictability / trust
2) to do so in the most transparent way possible that helps me sleep well at night
3) to do it in a way that doesn’t take very much of my time to manage.
so here’s the plan: starting in about 12 hours, i will be liquidating $1,000 worth of $MIRA every 10 minutes, perpetually. no more and no less than that. if i change this schedule, i commit to announcing it 24 hours in advance.
if you want to rug it to $0, go for it - at the end of the day we set out to raise $200K and we will end up with at least $1M towards rare disease research.
no matter what, this has been a win for the world. but if it moons, then hankinson lab will get the SOL’s community support for much longer, and that really makes a big difference.
so that’s it! hope that's all pretty simple and reasonable.
yi, mira and i are so unbelievably grateful to you all - each and every one of you. christmas magic was made real this year thanks to all of you. forever grateful.
@blader bro please start selling some $MIRA now. Take some money. Before the degenerates do it for you and your bag becomes half of what it currently is 🙏🏼
@TylerDurden She has brain cancer bro. Know your shit before you start complaining. He is benefiting off of everyone who buys the coin. His portion is worth millions and I couldn’t give a fuck if he nukes it and rugs everyone. It’s for a good cause 🙏🏼
@mushmoonz Stfu we are supporting him by buying the coin. His share is worth 17mil at this point and I couldn’t give a fuck if he sold it all and rugged me and everyone else.
6/ 🚀 How to get involved:
🔸 Buy $MIRA on Solana.
🔸 Join the MiraCoin Telegram.
🔸 RT this thread & spread awareness.
Let’s make Mira’s coin the biggest success story in Web3 history. 💪
#CryptoForChange#SolanaProjects
7/ Mira’s Smile > Any Profit Chart
If you see $MIRA trending, know this:
It’s more than a pump. It’s a community standing behind a little girl who just wants to live.
🌐 Support $MIRA – because Web3 means we rise together.
#MiraCoin#CryptoWithPurpose#CryptoCharity
i just want to say that whoever said crypto has no legitimate use cases, you can tell them that funding for rare disease research is a pretty legitimate use case
(again, ALL proceeds from this will go directly to rare disease research at hankinson lab, my family and i will keep $0 from any of this)
I don’t care if I lose everything. I’m aping into this just for the cause. 50% of the total supply was given to this man to help fund research for his daughter rare type of brain cancer.
uh so some random guy 20 minutes made a SOL memecoin called $MIRA to help with research fundraising and sent me half the entire supply and it's now worth like $400K and i literally don't know what to do because i certainly don't want to rug a bunch of random people