1/ I retired a few months ago and quite often I get asked how I did it. They think I'm this multi-millionaire for doing so. Yes I've done quite well for myself in crypto the past 8 years, but I probably retired with less than many think. Here's my advice 🧵👇

I can understand why it’s hard to find motivation to keep giving to an industry that constantly seems like it is willing itself to collapse under fervent greed, opportunism and manipulation - BUT, I urge you to please also see the good and passionate people working in earnest to create positive things. We can choose what we’re fuelling the growth of - give your attention and support to those building what we want to see.

February 19th 2025 marks exactly 2 years without missing a single day on my daily hand drawn comics. Christmas Day, birthdays, international flights, deaths in the family. Not a single day missed. In lieu of having a ‘Patreon’ page I like to release annual Open Editions. It’s 0.01 ETH on @manifoldxyz via the @base network. A single mint of this edition equates to giving me around $2.50 a month. If you want to do multiples, great, if you want to do zero, no worries (ngl I’m just going to keep doing comics anyway). The piece itself is called ‘Memecoins 101’ and is a celebration of the daily emotional rollercoaster we know as ‘the trenches’. Link below 👇

As of yesterday, the US Treasury has been directed to stop making pennies. A year ago (almost to the day), we made this. Believe in your ideas. Keep building. We’re still early. https://t.co/qcFrgKSgeW

Crypto is but a mirror into which every observer peers… Some see financial rebellion Some see earnest opportunity Some see a technological frontier Some see easy profits Some see suckers Some see dystopia Some see a good joke and laugh Some see a bad one and cry Some see anarchy and love it Some see anarchy and hate it Just remember it’s a mirror, and know that it will draw you inward toward whatever vision rests inside.

Don't fret, brother. Crypto is, and has always been, 99% nonsense grifty garbage/scams/jokes, and 1% fundamental global financial system revolution. But this 99/1 is based just on quantity of projects. Considered by market cap, it's more like 75% quality, 25% nonsense. Bitcoin is good. Ethereum is good. Stablecoins are good. Several dozen defi projects are good. Wildly cool technology permeates through all of it, and sound economics underpins its long term growth, though the short term feels often like an appallingly irrational market. How to cope with this dichotomy? Embrace the degen frontier and have fun, and recognize that amidst it all, a decentralized financial system is real, is important, and is working. None of it is forced on anyone, after all. We are building and we are attracting the world toward us... and much of the world simply wants to gamble and have fun. This is okay, and actually provides capital for the important work happening behind the casino. It is, actually, working. We are realizing the wildest dreams of those who are into it for all the right reasons, despite the accompanying fantasies of those who aren't. Just keep building, and build well.

Most don’t understand that $ETH community isn’t just built around “numba go up.” It’s built around cypherpunk values striving at a chance to revolutionize the world for the better. Communities that are mostly built around gains disappear as soon as the gains do. Without the ideals that seek to maximize economic freedom for the common man, we will never improve from the fiat/slave system that crypto set out to escape from in the first place, we will only further enslave ourselves by reinventing a more efficient version of it.