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there's a formula to going viral

people dedicate entire books & YT channels to it 

you know what this formula doesn't include?

providing massive value to people

every day mostly inane content goes viral on web2 platforms & the platforms profit from it

why so little valuable content reaches the top? bc value tends to be specialized

if someone discovers (& fixes) a major bug in the Ethereum codebase, chances are less than 0.0001% of the crypto world would understand the post about it 

and if a post does go viral, chances are it's from a crypto influencer, not the person who discovered the bug

if we only reward those who capture attention, who will focus on value creation instead of attention extraction?

who will look for bugs in the Ethereum codebase? or cure cancer, or solve other real-world problems?

we need to start aligning our systems with rewarding value creators, not meme generators

otherwise we'd get a lot more viral inanity and little value created

Happy easter!

I think crypto already is a creator economy, it’s just we don’t recognize it

Memecoins, vibe coding, solo-founder startups, miniapps, NFTs, are all forms of speculative content. 

The content has adapted to become more competitive in markets, creators using more advanced strategies and tools to succeed 

Speculative content isn’t passively consumed, it is actively priced

The content is always secondary in markets, the auction is the performance that matters, the art, the painting on the wall is secondary. It might not even be on the wall, more optimal for tax reasons to use a Freeport anyway

freeports always bring me back to this absolute banger

freeports always bring me back to this absolute banger 

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/63/60894/duty-free-art/

Effectively we are saying the same things then. I just think that we should be building tools that facilitate community formation using memecoins and not focus on monetization of arbitrary things. That seems a little misguided.

Memecoins don’t create communities, traders and creators do!

True or false? Memecoins create communities. If yes, then the power is in the communities, no? Not in monetization itself.

Freeport for memes is a crazy mental image and now I want it

crypto assets are already a form of creator output—tokenized attention instantly hyper financialized in a live, always‑on auction—whereas startups are the engines designing, testing, and scaling those markets, not the content circulating within them

happy easter

Love this framing crypto made content liquid and turned creators into market participants.