An important point I conveyed earlier is also that people within the social layer of the Monero ecosystem are vulnerable. Most of them hold on to the idea not because of a conscious choice, but because they don't know that this choice EXISTS. This means that injecting the narrative of memecoins and the promise of profit into a good social environment corrupts good ideas in people's minds. Degradation will occur not only on the outside, but will also begin internally, from well-known people down to simple adherents of the ideology. I'll be honest, but don't take offense. Guys like Vik understand business concepts and know the tools that can be used effectively. But most of them are also savages, knowing practically nothing about the modern web3 stack and narratives. As soon as Vik and his like realize that modern tools exist for making money through their audience, they will apply them to you. In simple words, they will use you. Corruption here began with the promotion of gambling; today we see a warning sign about memecoins, tomorrow it will be referral programs and financial incentives. These tools, collaborations, are capable of generating high profits. Influencers in Monero are not ready for this, they are wild. Expect a bunch of scams and rug pulls. A stage of degradation, corruption, and abuse awaits you within the social ecosystem. But there are things Vik overlooks as a strategist. First, the social layer of Monero and external applications is extremely small. It literally screams, come and build. This means there is room here and a low level of competitive environment. For extractors, this is a tasty morsel. Strategies of monopolization and exchanging value for colored beads, and later scalping, haven't gone anywhere. Supporting narratives such as memecoins, pseudo-NFTs, and protocols built on top is a gateway for a new audience, other people with other values. Through this gateway will come guys ten times bigger than Vik or anyone else existing here. Their goal will be to build with the aim of exploiting and substituting concepts. People like Vik will lose influence if they don't adapt. And adaptation carries with it support for the narrative of profit extraction and profitable collaborations mixed with politics. What does this mean? The one who realizes this first will take what's theirs right now. The one who doesn't get used to this and doesn't change their ideas will be marginalized in their own home. Privacy? Why? Let's trade memes. Hodl Monero and privacy by default? Why? Buy a virtual NFT, let's make money? Integrating a new privacy chain into the wallet? Why? Let's integrate what's popular among airdrop farmers, because fees and advertising mean profit + an influx of a new audience of customers. You will fuck and humiliate yourselves in front of everyone. I have no desire to watch this mess and state things that are too obvious to even predict. This is my last post on this topic. I'll come back sometime later to see how it all turned out.

Previously, I suggested that those with free time find and dox those who organized the attack on the @monero ecosystem through fake token standards and memes. I found the original source, the founder, and where he lives. If I get more free time, I'll find where he sleeps at night. If anyone from the community is in the UK, for example in Scotland, you might be interested. Yeah buddy, a private profile on X didn't help you.

The harshest method to test whether your project or chain has a real community is to remove the economic incentives for people from it. Don't confuse communities with users or consumers. Most aim for the latter, and that's why they fail. Bitcoin was preparing for its realization for several decades; a community was being built around it before the first node was launched.

I think @opensea will be grinning at the @blast shutdown. @blur_io has its own problems too. Same founder, and he could apply the same cost logic. But with NFTs it is more complicated. Either they raise the revenue question through fees and sacrifice volume, or they do nothing and it is more of the same. This is not a fact, but a prediction that comes true if nothing is done at all.

Hey man. If you're the type who runs around the chains looking for "opportunities" to stick your money somewhere and make a profit - don't come to @monero. This is a different crowd. A different community. Nobody approves of Fake NFTs, Fake Token Standards, or Rug Memecoins. We don't even know who creates them. These people have nothing to do with us, let alone with consensus. They won't be supported by cypherpunks, much less by the official Monero account. These projects are aimed at web3 opportunists in order to extract profit from them. We don't want this ecosystem to be associated with web3 filth. And even more so, we don't want people who come here to get their first and negative experience through losing money. We don't control the brand. Anyone can take the logo, call themselves whatever they want. Anyone can create an account on X, put up the corresponding avatars, and pretend to be one of us. With a little research, I noticed that the profiles actively promoting this have no mutual connections with me. They're either completely new, or have inflated follower counts, or their followers are from a completely different world. Whatever you see, just walk past it and invest in something real, for example, in monero:native.