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➬creator on .@Stacks
➬ex-memer @ToshiBet
➬bounty hunter on .@zeroauthdao

[I quote @pips_web3]

@onchainvibes__ @MOZOflix @zeroauthdao I like the visuals--how did you make it?

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

"The reality of building in web3"

That was the topic of the space I spoke in yesterday. My second space as a speaker, all thanks to @Web3_gabbie

I noticed 3 problems with most people who get onboarded into web3

First on my list would be "definition".

Most people don't even know what "web3" is. They think they'll just come in, print cash and go out.
We all know it doesn't follow that pattern—although it's in the realm of possibilities.

What separates those who are making money in the space and those who don't is the knowledge gap—and it all begins with what web3 actually is.

Most newbies can't seem to wrap their head around the whole meaning of the space they just got onboarded into.
They think building a brand on @X = web3. We all know that's not true.

Second on my list would be "niche". This is the second biggest problem of most people in this space. They just—open an X account, and just start posting.

Posting anything.

A niche is like a sector in the space—the one of many other sectors that drives the ecosystem as a whole.
Think of it like this—you have a country, and there are different things that are being done to increase the finance and well-being of the country, for example—the agricultural sector, oil and gas, education etc.

That's just how a niche is. So, on the journey of discovery, you'll have to ask yourself this question if you really want to stay long-term in here.

Lastly, I'd say "monetization". Believe it or not, a large number of us in this space are here—first for the money, and second for the tech.

Although I can't say that's the aim for everyone—some are just here to integrate web3 into their businesses🙂. I want to be like them—but for now, blss gib me money 😂😩

When problem 1 & 2 is solved, one would find out that problem 3 is actually a product of the solution of 1 & 2. When you know the environment you are in, then you have the necessary skills to be/thrive in that environment.
You have no option but to reap the good which the said environment brings—and that good is money.

On another day, not today—we would actually talk about what web3 is.

Good morning 🌞

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

𝗜 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 ₦𝟬.

Not 1,000 hours in a week.

Across my life.

A thousand hours of watching, learning, falling into rabbit holes at 2am —
YouTube was smiling to the bank off every minute.

It didn't hit me until the counter actually reached 1,000.

I sat back and asked myself — wait. Who is this really for?

And honestly? The first half was a waste.

Random videos. Entertainment. Noise.

But somewhere along the line I got serious.
I had one problem — I was uninformed.

About the world. About my craft. About what I was even capable of.

YouTube became my library. My classroom.
"Free" education. Or so I thought.

Here's what YouTube quietly made off my 1,000 hours:
~$180 in ad revenue. Conservative estimate.
That's before the data. The behavior patterns. The algorithm they trained on my watch history.

I wasn't a user. I was the product.

A well-studied, well-packaged, monetized product.

And I agreed to all of it. Happily.

At some point a thought crossed my mind that I never took seriously:
"What if they actually paid me to watch this stuff?"

I laughed. Filed it under "unrealistic."

And went back to watching.

Then I stumbled on @Mozoflix.
First AI-powered watch-to-earn platform on @Stacks — a Bitcoin L2.
Watch what you choose. Earn STX for it.

My honest first reaction?

This one too good. What's the catch?

Then I saw — Stacks.
Bitcoin L2. Not some random chain running a points gimmick.
Real infrastructure. Real accountability.

"Too good to be true" only lasts until you check the foundation.

I checked. It held.
1,000 hours.
That's what I gave away free.

Platforms chop. I grew — but never got my share.

@MOZOflix is the first time someone looked at that equation and said —
this thing no balance.

Let's fix it.

Your attention was always worth something.

Now you can prove it.

@zeroauthdao

[I quote @pips_web3]

@Favant3 Handicap 0:3... Nigeria to win

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳?

Imagine you're new in town.

No references. No connections. No one who can vouch for you.

You walk into a restaurant looking for a job. The manager asks: "What's your experience?"

You say: "Trust me, I'm good."

He says: "Next, please."

Now imagine a different world.

Same restaurant. Same manager.

But this time, you hand him a glass box.

Inside that box — every meal you've ever cooked. Every customer you've ever served. Every tip you ever earned. Every review anyone ever left you. All of it. Sealed. Timestamped. Impossible to fake.

The manager doesn't need to trust you anymore.

He can see you.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘅 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 @zeroauthdao 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.

The internet is full of people saying they can do things.

Designers with portfolios they may have stolen. Developers with credentials they bought. Writers who list clients that can't be verified. Everyone is claiming. Nobody can prove.

This problem gets worse in Web3 — a space full of anonymous usernames and Discord handles. A project needs a writer. Ten people say they're great. Who do you trust?

@zeroauthdao's answer: don't trust anyone. Verify everything.

Every piece of work you submit on the platform becomes a permanent record.
Think of it like a scoreboard that never resets — and nobody can edit it but the work itself.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀

Here's the simplest version:

Organizations — startups, communities, crypto projects — post tasks. They could be anything. Write a thread. Design a graphic. Research a protocol. Build a feature.

Contributors — writers, designers, developers, anyone really — pick up those tasks and submit work.

The platform records everything. Who submitted. What they delivered. How well. What they earned.

Over time, your profile stops looking like a resume and starts looking like a report card that graded itself.

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗠𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗝𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗬

In November 2024, residents across New Jersey began reporting unusual aerial objects appearing at night.

Witnesses described:
• Multiple lights moving together
• Objects hovering for long periods
• Aircraft-sized silhouettes
• Repeated appearances after sunset
The reports started locally.
Then they spread.
Fast.

At this point, nobody really knew what they were.
And that's important.
Because uncertainty creates a vacuum.
And vacuums get filled.

Not with facts.
With stories.

[I quote @pips_web3]

@Alexjoetg @zeroauthdao @Stacks @StacksOrg Wow. Nice video ser

[I quote @pips_web3]

@cebrusky @DronesSTX @zeroauthdao This. Is. Dope!

[I quote @pips_web3]

@Metroboy_Alpha @zeroauthdao @TheFastPool Nice visuals

[I quote @pips_web3]

till you see results

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

Yooo... I've had enough

I'm not eating shawarma today.
No playing games

Just me, with this book.
Not an ebook, an actual book.

This is how I'd touch grass today.

What I learn from this book, I'd implement till I see results.

[I quote @pips_web3]

@JESSYOG4 @Stacks @zeroauthdao @StacksOrg zero looks like an ecosyatem for everone--be you creator, dev etc. I'm sat for future updates

[I quote @pips_web3]

yooo--this is quite cool. And, you still dont know how to solve a rubiks cube?

Well it's not a crime--I mean, it's not the only measure of inteligence.

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

On today's unfiltered, it's me playing with a rubix cube.
I don't know how to solve one by the way--I can only solve 1 face at a time. Just great 🥲

It somehow resembles how this week went for me. It started out with me figuring out how to solve a phase in my content journey—"What to post"

That was it. What to post...

A rhetorical question I must say--cos, I mean, how does one answer such question?

I have just 3 skills—or maybe 3 things I can actually do—which are writing, motion graphics and art[as a hobby]

So, with these, how do I get what to post?

It's simple

I listed out all my pillars for Claude, and told it to draft a schedule for me revolving around my skills.
I then took that draft and fine tuned it to fit my style.

Then came "how to post".

This one was simple. It included the specific times I'm to push posts and the style of content I post.

Easy peasy.

I just needed to implement.

I'd do this consistently for the next 1 month[or even 3 months], whichever.

I'd keep, keep posting and iterating till I become what I want...

Or rather, till my content becomes what I want.

🙂

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘀 — 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸

Every casino has one rule that never changes: the house wins.

But here's what most players don't know — the house doesn't win because it's lucky.
It wins because the entire system is engineered against you before you even place your first bet.

Rigged outcomes you can't audit.
Withdrawal conditions buried in fine print.
Bonus schemes that sound generous until you read the 40x wagering requirement.

These aren't accidents. They're features.

Web3 was supposed to fix this.
Put the game logic on-chain, make everything verifiable, give players back control.

The vision was right.
The execution? Not so much.

Most Web3 casinos today are transparent about nothing, painful to use, and charge you gas fees just to lose your money faster.

You need to confirm a transaction for every single bet.
The UI looks like a fever dream.

And the "decentralization" is mostly marketing.

@AptCasinofun is built on a different premise: fairness isn't a feature you advertise.
It's the foundation everything else is built on.
On-chain randomness.
Gasless gameplay.
Clean UI.
No hidden traps.

The #casino should win sometimes. That's fine.

But you should always be able to prove how.

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

I put money into a Bitcoin yield protocol on Stacks. Before I did — I ran it through 11 questions.

Here's every answer I found, including the one that's still a problem

Two types of people see "earn BTC on your crypto."

Type 1 apes in blind. Type 2 scrolls past.
Both are reacting to the same thing: no framework for knowing what's real.
This thread is for a third type.
The ones who want to go in — but only after they understand what they're going into.

Bitcoin yield sounds like a trap.
Usually because it is.
Token emissions dressed as yield. Inflation mechanics rebranded as rewards. Synthetic BTC that depegs the moment you need it.
The skepticism is correct. The question is whether it applies here.
That's what the 11 questions are for.

Fast Pool is a stacking pool on Stacks — a Bitcoin Layer 2.
The yield comes from Bitcoin miners. Real BTC committed by miners competing to produce Stacks blocks. That BTC flows to stackers.
No token emissions. No inflation mechanics. No Ponzi.
Variable yield — but the source is legitimate.
That's the claim. Here's how I verified it.

Q1: Who controls the money?

Not a person. A smart contract. Rules enforced in code, not promises.
One human assumption exists: the reward administrator distributes your share correctly. Eyes open on that role.

Q2: Has it been audited?

No. This is the biggest unresolved question mark on Fast Pool.
Open source and audited are not the same thing.
The code is readable. It has not been formally reviewed. That gap is real.

Q3: How old is it?

Friedger has been building on Stacks since 2018. Fast Pool is on v3.
The previous deposit address still holds 5.32 BTC from earlier operations — visible on-chain, right now.
This isn't a new project testing ideas. It has traceable history.

Q4: What does exit look like?

Clean. STX locks one cycle at a time — roughly 2 weeks.
Revoke delegation, sit out the current cycle, walk away.
No cliff. No penalty. Rewards earned before exit stay yours.

Q5: Where exactly does your money go?

Full traceable path:
Your STX stays in your wallet — you sign a delegation, not a transfer
Miners send BTC each cycle → Fast Pool BTC addresses
BTC consolidates at a proxy address
Proxy bridges to sBTC via taproot deposit
Stacks distributor contract pays you in sBTC
Every address in that chain is publicly listed.
You can verify every hop on a block explorer right now.

Q6: Is the yield source real?

Bitcoin miners. Real BTC.
Not emissions. Not inflation. Miners competing to produce blocks.
The source is legitimate. The amount is variable.

Q7: Is the code readable?

Yes. Both GitHub repos are public.
Every line of logic governing your funds is visible on mainnet.

Q8: What's the liquidity risk?

Real. Fast Pool gives you no liquid token mid-cycle.
No stSTX. No tradeable position.
~2 weeks illiquid. That's the price of the simplicity.

Q9: What breaks this?

Four realistic failure modes:
— sBTC depegs → rewards arrive devalued
— Reward administrator misbehaves
— Stacks network failure post-Nakamoto upgrade
— Miner participation drops → yield shrinks, no floor

Q10: Who built this?

Friedger. Stacks contributor since 2018. Publicly reachable on Discord.
His own documentation says: "He will never DM you first. Beware of scammers."
That's the behavior of someone who has watched this ecosystem get exploited long enough to know how it works.

Q11: Is the BTC peg verifiable?

Yes. Every transaction from reward addresses → proxy → taproot deposit is traceable on any Bitcoin block explorer.
The transparency is real. Not claimed.

Here's what I can't tell you:
Whether the reward administrator will always behave correctly. Whether a future Stacks upgrade introduces something unexpected. Whether sBTC holds peg during a severe market event.
And the audit gap is real. No formal third-party review on record. For a protocol this transparent in every other dimension — that absence is loud.
I went in anyway. Sized the position accordingly.

👇

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

@Iamceejaymac I can feel his pain. My $2 worth of sol is nearly worth $1.5 now 😓

[I quote @pips_web3]

@GwinRldFX @zeroauthdao The video is only 1 second long...

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

Nobody talks about @ArkadikoFinance.
Nobody actually explains what's happening inside the vaults.

This week I go in — and write everything I find.

What makes their stablecoin stable when everything else isn't?
What's the actual mechanic underneath the yield?

Researching...

[I quote @pips_web3]

@BiggieFx007 @DronesSTX @zeroauthdao 😂. A meme thread huh? Or a thread of witnesses, whichever

[I quote @pips_web3]

@_AvDesigns @DronesSTX @zeroauthdao Nice and catchy. I love the comic style

[Pips @nnanyi_pips]

The biggest mistake in web3 isn't being early. It's ignoring platforms that money arrives in.

@zeroauthdao is one of these platforms.

The clip below is an explainer video, originally produced by @3hunnatheArtist

What is #ZeroauthorityDAO ? How to earn $$? It's all here.