Ben Roy
@benroy__
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I like crypto, culture & markets 📉 | partner @seedclubhq 🌱 | art stuff @accelerateart ⏫ | runescape alumni 🧙♂️
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Look mom I got a job 👽
We are very excited to announce that
@benroy__
will be joining SC07 as an Accelerator Partner. He’ll work alongside
@thattallguy
and
@joshcrnls
in relentlessly supporting our founders during the cohort and beyond.
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A giga-thread on how crypto redefines culture as an asset class 👇
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Me walking to thanksgiving dinner in a month to talk about crypto with my family
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The real trilemma in crypto is:
a) working
b) staying informed
c) health
Pick two.
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Bought my mom a
@proof_xyz
NFT as an xmas present for 1.69 ETH
Legit paid off my entire childhood because she's still diamond handing it at a 55 ETH floor
Crypto mom is built different
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Ethereum is a Game Environment 📝
People describe Ethereum in a lot of different ways.
It’s a smart contract platform, an asset ledger, an always-on financial system, a massive multiplayer online money game, and so on and so forth.
The gaming metaphor is the one that I’ve…
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I don't normally talk about specific coins & NFTs...
But I'm awake, I have 34 tabs open & I feel like writing... so buckle up for 1000 words on crypto + speculation + how I'm thinking about current projects & opportunities 😂
To front load here:
🔹I own some but not all of…
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How to trade memecoins (100 IQ edition):
🔹see new coin on Twitter
🔹react with disgust, you're too smart to buy this
🔹fade it at a low market cap
🔹coin pumps
🔹keep fading in principle because you're now late
🔹number go up more
🔹cope phase one starts
🔹keep fading because…
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A
@ClaireSilver12
appreciation post 🌸
I had the good fortune of meeting Claire ~3 years ago
TLDR:
🔹She had ~300 followers on Twitter
🔹I was starting
@accelerateart
+ looking for a creative cofounder
🔹I liked her art & vibes (similar today as back then)
🔹So I cold DMed…
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So it finally happened to me after 5 years
I had a wallet get drained last night, low 5 figs
My fault, I was up way too late + wasn't paying attention & ended up signing a transaction on a scam instance of an app on
@base
😫
I'll be ok financially but what a gross feeling
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I bought my Punk back 😍
Held him for 6 months last year, then was a paper-handed bitch and sold earlier this year
Now he's comfy in my wallet again, this time for good
There is nothing like Punks, for crypto history & culture, and I'm stoked be back in the crew 🫶
Punk 8902 bought for 81 ETH ($96,528.51 USD) by 0x83c8f2 from 0x4d116a.
#cryptopunks
#ethereum
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Let’s Talk About Scams, Baby 📝
Last week I lost $50,000 USD, which was fun.
I signed two malicious transactions on Ethereum and one of my wallets got drained, which felt like the digital equivalent of getting mugged… except instead of losing a phone and credit cards, you lose…
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Can you (unironically) shill me some art?
This could be your own work or someone else's that you've seen recently & liked
Preference to: glitch, generative art, AI art, photography
Could be for sale or not, any chain is valid too ✊
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I still think NFTs are cool because they’re one of the few domains where qualitative people can compete with quantitative people
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Personal tweet: I’m overwhelmed with gratitude today 📝
And it’s specifically related to my mom & how thankful I am for her
This is a woman who fled communism in Europe in the 80s when she was a kid...
Who raised me in the west as a single mother while working two jobs...…
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I wonder if in hindsight $DEGEN ends up being the kingmaker for
@farcaster_xyz
beating out
@LensProtocol
Having a coin people can rally around is so powerful in terms of cult formation & alignment
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Someone asked me how I originally chose my pfp
The TLDR is I think Chromie Squiggles represent a combination of...
-optimism in technology
-creator empowerment
-the importance of community
-and a sense of life as play
Those are simply values I want to associate myself with 🤷♂️
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That feel when someone asks you if NFTs are going to make a comeback
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The Magic of Marfa 📝
Marfa doesn’t really make sense until you get there.
At first glance, it’s this unremarkable little town of ~1500 people in west Texas, but as soon as you arrive and acclimatize, something clicks. The buildings that look run down on the outside have…
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I really just love crypto
What a totally insane and cool industry + group of people
Violent lows and euphoric highs
Pure degeneracy but then real systems change at the same time
There is no second best
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New Post: "Consider the Chromie Squiggle"
Covers:
▫️Chromie Squiggles 101
▫️The rise of the set in crypto subculture
▫️My personal reflections on the collection
▫️Some thoughts about potential futures
Published in
@PageOneGG
(link in the next tweet 👇)
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116 quality people you should follow in crypto 🤌
I'll split this into 4 parts
🔹arts & culture
🔹venture & trading
🔹founders & builders
🔹storytellers & community folks
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Checks are the most interesting project I've seen this year...
▫️Simple conceptually
▫️Derivative friendly
▫️NFTs as performance art
▫️Great commentary on internet culture
▫️Clean
Good. Game. 🫡
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Imagine being an adult with a Chromie Squiggle & not using it as your email signature
Couldn't be me
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For the first time in 5 years, crypto has lost its magic for me
Can finally see how the real OGs got so cynical
Everyone is just here to make $, few real problems are being solved, almost nothing actually needs a token, etc.
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A friend texted me out of the blue today about
@SBF_FTX
😅
Turns out he watched the 60 Minutes interview with Michael Lewis (link at the bottom of my post)
This friend felt “the jury was still out on Sam” and that SBF may be innocent because “he seems like he was just in over…
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This is who you're trading against in 2024 - if you don't make money that's on you 😅
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Only one memecoin community made me a custom pfp so send that one to trillions with haste
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Man just go to bat for your friends
Share their art, test their products, introduce them to people
Win, together
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Them:
Can you explain the gap in your resume between 2022 and 2024 where it just says "was active in Telegram group chats"...?
Me:
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The more I meet people in crypto, the more I feel like we’re all from the same small town
Lots of overlapping interests & ways of being in the world
People are creative, optimistic about tech, pro systems change
There’s high risk tolerance + high openness
My people 🫡
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Working in crypto is like having 3 full-time jobs at once:
▫️Keeping up with the industry (researcher)
▫️Managing your own portfolio (investor)
▫️Your actual job
Send help 😮💨
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Pet peeve:
People who got lucky in crypto who think they're now better than you because they're richer than you
Character beats net worth any day & it's not close bros, sorry
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1/ I’m proud to share this post on the “fat CryptoPunks thesis.” TLDR is it lays out a vision for why I think CryptoPunks will capture significant value over the coming years as the NFT market grows (~6 minute read). All feedback & criticism is welcome.
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Main goal 2021: become the most recognized Squiggle
Main goal 2022: become the most recognized Squiggle
Main goal 2023: become the most recognized Squiggle
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I still think the social capital of owning a CryptoPunk is worth more than a million dollars 🤷♂️
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1/21 😅 On the social value of Cryptopunks:
If I could live for another century or two, I’d be curious to see how different Punks get valued based on the history of their ownership i.e. who owned X Punk?... and what did they do with it? Thread on this below 👇
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Bull case for Punks & Squiggles:
1⃣ As new (high end) money enters NFTs, it will flow to established sets with the least execution risk
2⃣ Remarkably few crypto-rich people own these collections & really believe they matter... they will capitulate & buy higher, for the culture
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The Solana Phone trade is hilarious
If the community is smart they’ll meme it into the stratosphere
Bonk team should make sure all phone buyers get paid, then other Sol teams should airdrop to phone wallets too
Making your people money is the best marketing play in the game
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Me aping into bull posting after like 18 months of being reasonable
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I've had ~40 tabs open w/ crypto content for ages
It started to bother me so I read until 3am to consume it all
There were 18 things worth reading, old & new, linked below
In honor of
@nosleepjon
's lists we'll start w/ his essay on independent thinking
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I'm going to start doing an occasional "Shout Out" series
Just simple spotlights of people who I admire in crypto
First up this week is
@derekedws
!
He is a friend, a mentor, a partner at
@Collab_Currency
, the alpha & omega of chads, the oracle of
@artblocks_io
, a co-curator…
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I’m glad that most tech bros have either…
A) moved back to boring saas companies, or
B) moved on to AI grifting
Crypto is far more interesting when it’s on the edge
I don’t think we talk enough about how much better twitter has gotten since everyone stopped pretending NFT’s had value
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Is anyone productive right now?
I feel like my entire life is:
🔹wake up
🔹check coins
🔹do 3 work calls
🔹catch up on messages across Twitter, Telegram, etc.
🔹ghost almost everyone
🔹do 5 more work calls
🔹write something with 8% of my attention actually on the work
🔹check…
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Crypto is overwhelming because it’s like having 3 jobs:
Research: need to talk intelligently about new themes
Brand building: need to maintain various relationships to stay in the loop
Money management: active investing & trading
Then there's your actual day job too... 😔
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Warning in advance that I may turn my Twitter into a Parallel fan boy account
People are not sufficiently bullish on this universe
The cultural power of a brand at the intersection of gaming, AI, crypto, TCGs, IP, etc. is going to be huge
Remind me in 3 years 🫡
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I've learned more from Twitter this year than from anything else. A lot of smart folks on here 🤓
See below for a compilation of some of my favorite tweets re: investing/trading in crypto & my takeaways
(as a retail noob) (and in no particular order)
👇
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From 2020-2023 I went to bed between 3-4am & got up at 9am
Grinding crypto hard: mix of startups, trading, working w/ founders
Just fucking relentless
And I’m still badly feeling the wear & tear
People will hype you up & say this is the way
It’s not, health is everything
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One of my best friends bought his 2 month old kid these Pit Vipers in honor of the bull market 🤣
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Starting a newsletter is like starting a restaurant...
Everyone wants to do it, few succeed & the magic of what makes one great is hard to put your finger on.
Anyway 😅 I'm starting a personal newsletter at the intersection of crypto x culture!
Codename: "Digital Objects"
👇
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I picked up this
@SappySealsNFT
during the dump
Been impressed with
@wabdoteth
& co. across everything from ordinals to meme machine
You can just tell when a team understands the culture & has the hustle to get it done
!arf
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I’m going to take a few days off posting here
Every time I go to write some draft tweet about crypto it just feels meaningless (to me personally) in the face of so much suffering going on around the world
Will be back next week
Wishing everybody well, DMs still open
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An Art Basel Recap 📝
This week was my first time visiting Miami and the city honestly lived up to its reputation.
Sunshine, beautiful people, and good vibes mixed with chaos, grime, traffic and enormous Uber bills. I can see why Grand Theft Auto 6 is based on this town.
The…
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Overheard in Denver:
“Oh shit you’re [fill in name], nice to meet you man… I bought 200 ETH worth of Loot from you at the top… yeah, fuck”
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I love crypto, but being perma-online is exhausting 😩
Everyday I check:
▫️2 email accounts
▫️2 twitter profiles
▫️~12 discord servers
▫️~10 telegram chats
▫️slack (a boomer project)
▫️whatsapp (need to cancel euro friends)
▫️& texts
Them: You have time for a quick call?
Me:
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When I see some people on the timeline I just auto-like their tweets before even reading them
We simply upvote the good folks on here as much as possible
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Many of the smartest + most influential people in crypto (& other industries) don't have huge social media followings
A lot of my favorite accounts on here have <5K followers
I dislike how much credibility we ascribe to follower count as a metric, feels very made up 🤷♂️
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I’m excited about 'dynamic' NFTs
Like, NFTs with liveness / an active component
🔹
@tylerxhobbs
& QQL with people being able to cocreate work
🔹
@jackbutcher
with Opepen sets coming out over time
🔹
@patrickamadon
with Doppelgänger
It is NFTs as a new form of performance art
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Tired, post-red eye flight rant-thought ✈️
The world is so filled with NPC energy...
Everyone watches the same shit, reads the same books, listens to the same podcasts, follows the same Twitter accounts etc.
No one thinks for themselves, there's not an original thought in…
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A holiday follower Friday 🎅
@nikokampouris
(marketing)
@POSTWOOK
(art)
@boldleonidas
(memes)
@jmsaavedra
(hardware)
@la_da_kid
(trading)
@stefdelev
(community)
@themetavince
(token design)
@GBMedici
(collecting)
@VGFreakXBL
(gaming)
@pixelpete
(best reply guy)
All stars 🤌
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