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During Consensus, I was asked several times about the story of ethereum:0xf280b16ef293d8e534e370794ef26bf312694126 as far as we were aware. Many people were pleasantly surprised by how we managed to exit our position without damaging the community. This is the summary. When we set up the process for accepting crypto donations at @stjude, we set the criteria that we would convert the assets donated as soon as reasonably possible. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is focused on leading the way that the world understands, treats, and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. While we (the crypto industry) may wish the world would leap forward and be more on-chain, that isn't how it currently exists and we need dollar denoted currencies to run the hospital. Nearly 2 years ago, .5% of ASTEROID was sent to the St. Jude ETH wallet. We didn't have a way to readily convert it into US Dollars, so we left it in the wallet. Due to external factors, the token went from a market cap of ~$20k to over $150M. Our position fluctuated between $500k and $1M in valuation. I had several messages asking if what we were going to do, and I responded to a few that we were figuring it out. The next 48 hours were a whirlwind of approvals, but I knew two things. We would need to go to a DEX (a first for our mission) and that we would need to avoid hurting the community. Leadership understood and gave approval for the approach and we proceeded. Some people may disagree with how we did it, but I believe it to be the best option out of the ones that we had. Over 2 days, we proceeded to exit the position in 12 varying sized tranches. During the entire process, we kept an eye on liquidity of the token and did our best to ensure it never dropped below $3.5M and that the Net Buy pressure didn't exceed $75k. We exited the position with over 290 ETH valued at ~$676k. Thank you to the ethereum:0xf280b16ef293d8e534e370794ef26bf312694126 community that came together on this asset. These monies will go a long way in support of the life saving mission of St. Jude. Disclaimer: Discussion of a token is not an endorsement of the token, do your own research. Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer. For media outlets, please reach out directly.

Life is brief, uncertain, and final. The moment you die, even if you discover electricity and light up civilization for centuries, the ongoing acknowledgment, the statues, the textbooks, the billions of lives improved, none of it reaches you. You do not know we still speak your name. You do not feel the legacy. It is theatre performed for the living, and it is hollow to the one who is gone. The only exception that cuts through this emptiness is offspring. While you are still here, the knowledge that your children will carry something of you forward, that they may reap the benefits of what you built, can give a hard, personal consolation. Their continued years become the one thread that feels like it still belongs to you. Without that thread, every achievement, no matter how vast or enduring, collapses into the same silence. The dead do not collect their applause. Only the living who share your blood can make the legacy feel like it still matters.

Life for criminal aliens must become IMPOSSIBLE. They will leave on their own and new ones will stay away - Block every bank account - Cut off welfare - Deny all housing - Require English - Ban driver’s licenses