Even though there's a clear market demand for an ETF that tracks the price of ETH, the fat cats in Washington and on Wall Street are dragging their feet. So, I'm taking matters into my own hands and launching an ETF! 🧵
Not many people know this, but 12 years ago I wrote a children's book. It sat in the vault, unreleased, for over a decade before I commissioned
@hausofdecline
to illustrate it for me. For the first time ever, I present:
You Are Not Special
@sofre_e_chora
@hausofdecline
Don't show it to a 10 year old with depression! Only show it to a 10 year old who thinks they're then only person who matters in the world, and need to be taken down a peg
My weekend is ruined and I'm absolutely gutted. And it's all because of the shameless deterioration of journalistic practices at the
@WSJ
. They've robbed me of a career-defining spotlight article, but they've also shattered the dreams of a young journalist
Here's what happened🧵
I don't quite have a date yet, but I'm sick of teasing. Very excited to announce that my next
@artblocks_io
project is coming soon: Fake Internet Money! It's probably my best generative work to date. Here's a test mint:
I'm disappointed to announce that the NFT bear market has gotten so bad that I'm forced to auction off my own money in my new project, Cold Hard Cash
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Earlier this week, someone claiming to be
@fintechfrank
from The Block reached out to me on discord to write about my "project". I was skeptical since I have multiple projects and the message was poorly worded. But I decided to give Frank the benefit of the doubt.
💥🚀 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: 🚀💥
🤩🧠🎰 DOPAMINE MACHINES 🎰🧠🤩
✏️📅 WED. JUNE 21 @ 1PM EDT 📅✏️
💸⛓️🎨 ART BLOCKS CURATED 🎨⛓️💸
🥵🔥 THE HOTTEST NFT OF THE SUMMER 🔥🥵
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Before the close of the year I'm excited to release one more small Art Blocks project → Pointers
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Friday 12/9 → 12:30pm EST
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100 mints
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Dutch Auction 1.0 ETH → 0.1 ETH
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Excited to announce that at Art Blocks' Marfa event this year I'll be releasing my first ever pen plotter project, a collaboration with
@plottablesio
💵🖊 Instructions for Defacement 💵🖊
Happy New Year everyone!! 🎉 💥🎊 I'm excited to follow up on last night and officially announce the launch of my new project: Free
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Read on for details 👇👇👇
You can still send ETH to moneymakingopportunity.eth, but as of 12pm EDT it will no longer qualify you for an opportunity
What is Money Making Opportunity? MMO is part durational art piece, part game theory experiment, and part degenerate pyramid scheme
Here are the details 💸
My investment thesis is that it's more fun to gamble on art than memes because if you win you get an extra dopamine hit from thinking you have good taste
Mark your calendar: On Wednesday, September 1st at 4:00 PM (EDT) real currency exchanges will close for the day, but the Fake Internet Money OTC desk will open on
@artblocks_io
. More details coming soon. Here is mint
#0
:
Looks like I'm making pretty good progress on my OKRs for the first quarter:
✅ Get verified on OpenSea
✅ Get collected by Fingerprints
✅ Write the most controversial children's book of the year, which leads to me getting ratio'd + death threats
Not many people know this, but 12 years ago I wrote a children's book. It sat in the vault, unreleased, for over a decade before I commissioned
@hausofdecline
to illustrate it for me. For the first time ever, I present:
You Are Not Special
Everyone who's complaining about
@jerrysaltz
and
@refikanadol
shit talking each other, and saying it's bad for the digital art space, have clearly never watched professional wrestling
Nearly three years of constant "internationally famous artist" manifestation has finally paid off: Excited to announce my first solo exhibition at Francisco Carolinum, curated by the awesome
@Tschuuuuly
If you're in Linz from 3/14 - 5/31 check it out
One rule of thumb I've found useful to cut through the hype and anti-hype of web3 is to replace "web3"/"blockchain" with "open source event ordering". Example: "Open source event ordering can only be used for ponzi schemes and money laundering" doesn't sound like an amazing take
This weekend was nerve wracking. A lot of federal crimes were committed in my vicinity, and I multiple people threatened my life if I didn't sign their dollars. I think my next project is going to be a lot safer -- probably just a bunch of arrow and dots or something
Shout out to the bank teller, who, when I ask to withdraw 500 singles, diligently fulfills my request with the utmost level of professionalism, without a trace of judgement, even though she clearly thinks I'm going to spend them at a strip club
Nine years ago I quit my job because I wasn't "Senior Mutual Fund Analyst material". Today my business acumen landed me in Forbes. So now my former boss can suck it
I told
@FingerprintsDAO
that increasing their negative asset exposure was a bad financial move, but they didn't listen. Regardless, I'm super excited to be part of such an awesome collection along side some of my favorite artists
We are delighted to announce that the DAO has acquired 7 pieces from the project “Negative Value Certificates” by
@steviepxyz
Read below to learn about Steve’s practice, the amazing story behind this exceptional project, and how it fits within our collection… 1/
I've decided to try the exciting new fundraising technique of soliciting strangers to blindly send ETH to a random address for my latest project, Money Making Opportunity.
- 0.03 ETH -> moneymakingopportunity.eth
- Don't send more
- Don't send less
- Stop by 12pm EDT
I originally wanted to keep my new project, Fiefdoms, on the DL. But it looks like the cat's already out of the bag, and the last 24 hours have been really silly, so here's a debrief thread.
“That’s what triggers the biggest dopamine rushes in my head.”
See the story of three balls thrown in the air to get a straight line by
@steviepxyz
from
@grails
V.
I'm not releasing anything until tomorrow, but I need the dopamine fix of an announcement today.
I've recently completed Terminally Online, a series of 12 1/1 web pages that explore the existential dread I get from using the internet.
One year ago today I was on a call with the CTO of the company I worked for, telling him I was quitting. That meeting was running a bit long, so I had to crack out my personal computer (with him still on my work computer) at noon to mint this guy
We're at a pivotal moment in history where a myriad of global events will undoubtedly shape our world for generations to come... and boy, does the 24 year old mutual fund analyst version of me have some opinions about the new Bitcoin ETF and resulting market pump
🧵 NFA DYOR 🧵
When Zora asked me to do a fake ad for their physical zine, I don't know if they knew who they were talking to. I took the opportunity to highlight a bunch of lesser-known products, and it ended up being one of my favorite things I produced last year.
🎁🔥🎁🔥🎁🔥🎁
Reminder that the FIRST 100 Dopamine Machine tokens will be eligible to claim a free print: hot off my mom's printer, signed, folded, and mailed to you anywhere in the world! If you're lucky it might even have the printer headers/footers 🤩
My accountant: "oof, I dunno. You really need to talk to a lawyer"
My lawyer: "This is outside my area of expertise. You should talk to your accountant"
In one week over 500 people will descend on Marfa for the DOPAMINE MACHINES ACTIVATION event at Crowley Theater.
I'm told that there might be a few Dopamine Machine satellite events happening that weekend, but you definitely don't want to miss this.
📅🕗 Friday, 9/22 @ 8pm
TODAY!
🕒 3 AM - Melbourne
🕑 2 AM - Tokyo
🕐 1 AM - Shanghai
🕦 10:30 PM - Mumbai
🕗 8 PM - Moscow
🕖 7 PM - Berlin
🕕 6 PM - London
🕐 1 PM - New York
🕛 12 PM - Chicago
🕙 10 AM - San Fransisco
🕘 9 AM - Anchorage
👉 👈
I'm not supposed to talk about rarity probabilities before the Dopamine Machine drop on Wednesday, but I want to address the question on everyone's mind: about 37.4% of the 777 outputs will, in fact, be Grails
Even if we are around the top of a massive, stupid bubble, yesterday you all converted ~$475k of fake internet money into real money that's going to people in extreme poverty via
@GiveDirectly
-- so that's pretty cool!
A lot of people have asked if I've been hacked. I haven't yet, but I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone that it's only a matter of time. The day will almost certainly come where someone gets access to all my socials and posts a real scam link. Remain vigilant
Four years ago today I started my journey of life changing wealth accumulation by deploying the contract. In honor of FastCash's fourth birthday, I'll be airdropping 10 FASTCASH to one random person who likes and retweets
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FASTCASH! 🎂🎂🎂🎂
Unfortunately I can't complete day 10 of
#genuary2022
(machine learning, wrong answers only). I just received this bizarre letter from the SEC, and really need to spend the day talking to my lawyers...
So, I did something incredibly fucking stupid on Thursday and compromised my hot wallet. I wanted to keep it on the DL until I got everything under control, but everything is now under control, so here's a blog post about it:
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🎉💥🎊NEW YEAR NEW FREE 🎊💥🎉
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I'm happy to announce 13 new additions to Free, my ecosystem of smart contract challenges, bringing the total collection size up to 33! (Along with a free bonus collection)
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Over the last 36 hours I sold 20 jpgs of pieces of paper that people handed me in the subway for a total of 1 ETH, and my mom thinks you've all lost your minds. I hope you're happy with yourself.
It blows my mind that in 8 years of being a software engineer my longest running application was a bot that texted my roommates and I to clean the apartment. And that I pulled in more $ selling pictures of fake money than the revenue of all the startups I ever worked at combined
An FYI to my curator friends: if you ever want to run a Terminally Online or Dopamine Machines installation, this is my preferred display setup. Except please use fewer zip ties