basil
@itsbasil
increasingly more 10k fids & below are in my dms calling for me to get LOUDER it appears the inner circle is finally getting pissed off? two notable developments: 1) “get louder for us” — people are scared to speak up due to fear of retribution from ex-cb mafia (this is horrifying, no different than censorship & why we get called linkedin) 2) just talked to a second crypto & fc og who is now advising an fc competitor interested in tokenizing the social graph: one just wants to start a fire; the other is giving “fine i’ll do it myself” energy while i appreciate dans recent visibility on the timeline, we’ve debated this time & time again to no end & nothing has changed out of love for the network, the people want SOME of the 100m+ of capital being SAT ON deployed & deployed LOUDLY starting with ONE non dev hire to run ONE of these initiatives (to start): > eco fund > marketing & ua > branding & optics > grants & devrel > meaningful creator rewards & ambassador program
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wake
@wake.eth
i don't know how "raises" work. merkle raised 150m. was that money just, like, transferred to them? i always assumed it was scaled in somehow, otherwise arrives with conditions. but if they're sitting on 100m liquid while the network ossifies... well.... that's... something lol
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basil
@itsbasil
plus another 30m in a follow on i believe, so somewhere around 180m for a now 6 or 7 (?) person dev (only) team almost 3 years into launch no matter how you cut it, no matter what the terms were… they’re sitting on a trove
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wake
@wake.eth
has merkle spoken publicly about the money... besides the original announcement? i haven't seen anything since the confirmation.
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basil
@itsbasil
they haven’t spoken publicly about anything this is why CT still thinks we have power badges, and thinks the eth foundation fc account is where the alpha is, and doesn’t realize that clanker is a fc project, and thinks that fc is entirely a bot network, or enter [whatever else absurd shit they just made up] this is part of the problem
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