Many new folks becoming #pengus these days. Happy to see you finally come around. Took you quite a while but very happy to have you with us🐧 Thing is: Many of you merely adopted the pengu. I was born in it, molded by it. Only the true OGs remember that I used to be a penguin on twitter long before @pudgypenguins – the first good looking penguin NFTs and the first penguin NTF project to mint out –, or @PenguinFightNFT – the first penguin NFT projects with a twitter – or party penguins (commonly referred to as Walmart penguins) – the first penguin NFT project to START their mint – existed. To date my location is still set to "Antarctica" since those early days (X marks the spot - IYKYK) and I used various anime penguin girls as PFPs, most prominently the one shown below (fun fact the artist of this very piece actually released it as a NFT on some tiny Asian art site and I managed to track it down and buy it). As such @pudgypenguins were never merely a trade or a flip for me. I've been calling for "pengu" NFTs before they existed – because I got fascinated by NFTs since 2018, really believed that CUTE penguins – due to being widely adored by most people (except a certain evil korean bot – IYKYK) – are the best interpretation of the animal PFP meta, and simply wanted them because I PERSONALLY love them. In doing so, I have also coined the terms "pengu" and "pengufication" in NFT land. Buying those cute lil pengus as soon as they began to slide onto the ETH blockchain in late July 2021 and holding a very large fraction of them to what are valuations of 400x and higher of my cost basis was not sheer luck, nor was it a ultra smart and calculated financially driven move. I simply LOVE penguins. Without a true passion and interests for both components of what they are – cute penguins and a implementation of a technological construct I have been interested in since early 2018 – I don't think I would have held onto them with such dedication and conviction. If you merely are here to chase financial gains, I do believe you will do quite well, but I doubt you will ever hit insane homerun trades without either passion, genuine interest, attachment to a community, or something alike. Analogous to my penguin NFT buys in 2021, my BTC purchases in 2014 would have never happened without me being deeply involved in internet culture and tech and my genuine interest in what blockchains offered to facilitate. And I certainly would not have held those BTC all the way into the second peak of the 2021 cycle. I am not a bad daytrader but I am certainly not insanely gifted at it either. But while many of you call being "in it for the tech", "in it for the community" or "in it for the art" a meme, these aspects are exactly where most of my biggest gains in crypto land stem from. It's also what made me stay in this space for what's about to be a decade and enjoy my entire journey through many bears and bulls w/o many real breaks. Shoutout to all the frens I made along the way, all the degens hanging with me in GCs at ungodly hours, and all the lovely artists that produced stunning art pieces for me – i really cherish and appreciate you all. Wishing you all a joyful holiday season and early bull market! ❤️💕 Best of luck! Greetings, Bright Avian P.S.: You knew the term "avian" is used to refer to birds or bird-like animals? Exactly what penguins are. It has always been hidden in plain sight! 🐧

If I'm right and we'll head into the next stage of the bull market soon-ish We'll have one big price event where most things reprice all at once That'll be the sign for most sidelined people that we are indeed in a bull market Which is as usual late but that's just how it goes

I think so many @pudgypenguins got saved just because of the @RevokeCash partnership and we all wanted that badge. Not gonna lie that was the best thing they ever did in terms of helping to make your wallet safe. Thank you, one of my old wallets actually got saved that way. @beausecurity

how come i get the feeling this weekend we're about to see some shit go down

normal ppl dont understand the extreme level of neurodivergence required to hit these massive trades u must have extreme adhd to be early to a narrative + main coin then, u must have the exact opposite, extreme patience/discipline, to be able to hold that coin through 70-90% drawdowns, periods of zero volatility, and endless waves of fud one mindset to enter, complete opposite mindset to exit few

also think this

RH eco round 2 coming up shortly. If you’ve wandered away, now’s probably a good time to come back Thank you for your attention to this matter

This is epic! Nobody does it like Pudgy Penguins. Winter and the holiday season is always penguin season, nothing looks quite as festive as a penguin around the holidays. Manifesting this page next year 🐧

40 million people get @pudgypenguins in the mail this week 🐧

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nobody is bullish enough

This is a super huge deal, wow 😯

Do you know that it has a promo @vibes_tcg inside illustrated by the one and only @afiqpengu ? And that there is 2% ultra rare too.

Feels like we found a bottom on snarks. Wanted to see how the team handled post launch FUD before getting more conviction. They’ve handled it well. Team seems serious. R/R looks good. Happy to ride this one out.

the biggest difference between rn and few weeks ago is how fragmented degen liquidity has become same trenchers, same capital, but way more places to deploy it: robinhood bluechips on pons robinhood memestocks on long robinhood ponzis like standard + net solana paired memes on stonk solana pumpfun eco solana memes paired to X accounts on paid AI plays like IMD, AGI etc. near / zec eco with rhea & more most of the liquidity and attention was concentrated into a few runners on robinhood now everyone is spread across 10 different metas at the same time more opportunities, but way less concentrated liquidity and less room for big runners.

Asymmetric risk!

just saying there's a non zero chance the @zksnarks_ become the identity pfp for the coin of the cycle is it likely? who knows but crazier things have happened

$ZEC hackathon sponsored by @zksnarks_ 👀

THE ZECATHON_ Full details Monday_ thezecathon.com

Big first week for @zksnarks_ 🔥

I'm ashamed to admit that I really want to buy these Zcash NFTs I almost FOMO'd when they were at 1 $ZEC and now the price is down 50% I love NFTs & think ZEC is a chosen coin this cycle Just can't bring myself to buy the NFT and be confident it'll outperform just buying Zcash