Degen

I’ve worked 10-12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week on DEGEN for the past year—even through my honeymoon and holidays. I’m not asking for thanks, but if you’re taking your hat off now, it probably was never truly on. The real degens are here for the long haul.

on new degen tips

the coolest moments in crypto always happened when a group of friends discovered a way to print money from thin air

bitcoin -> icos -> defi yield farming -> nfts -> memecoins + long tail of mechanisms like degen tipping

printing on degen tips was how most of us got hooked on farcaster

but degen tipping was never economically rational, always very exploitable and always very exploitable

the magic of it is that there is literally no right number or the right solution to make things grow — it's all organic, chaotic, irrational

this is why:
- if i was running degen i would optimize for as many tips, as valuable as possible, while being aware that some % of that may be farmed

- i trust @jacek witch his decisions and vision — he has always been a fantastic steward of the community. most crypto founders crash out after just 10% of shit jacek had to eat this year. and people like jacek make the irrational magic moments happen

if you don't like this situation, you are in luck — @jacek gave you a playbook for launching your own tipping community on farcaster and we need more of that

feel free to reach out if you are on a fence or need to jump ideas before launching

I just DMd you, thanks for making yourself available