Red Coin Gud

(Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Smart Contracts and Love the Red Coin)

It was 2016. Degens were seeking alpha in the Polo trollbox and playing pump and dumps like a carnival game. Ethereum was the world computer, bitcoin was a medium of exchange, and The DAO was going to democratize basically everything.

Then The DAO was hacked. ETH nuked, and after the hard fork and ETC fiasco, the world learned ethereum was not immutable. I jumped ship and settled in the comfy privacy corner of the cryptoverse with an unknowable sum of #monero.

For years, I looked at ethereum with a heavy heart. It could have been great. I didn’t care much for the ICOs that came and went, or DeFi with its transactions costing triple digits for a single swap. And I certainly didn’t care for NFTs. My only NFT was bitcoin, I’d say.

All of that changed when I learned about Avalanche from a @intocryptoverse. I looked into this coin that is red and fell in love with its instant finality, superior validator/delegator decentralization, sensible tokenomics, adult devs, cheap transactions, and subnet architecture.

Defi became so accessible to me that I was able to freely lose as much money as I wished. Then came NFTs. I was part of a community now, so why not buy some JPEGs and prove it? I minted some @apa_nft and bought a @firatinsayfasi.

A lot has happened in Avalanche’s two years of existence, and it’s still accessible to everyone. Transactions cost pennies. You need less than $500 worth of $AVAX to delegate. Validator hardware requirements are minimal. Decentralization is expanding. Subnets are growing.

Now I watch @el33th4xor on All Access every week. I read every tweet from chads @kevinsekniqi and @luigidemeo. I role play with @Smol_Creeps and @TinyHuskies and use what I consider the best NFT art around, @BeykeyCrypto’s LoOK Friends, as my PFP.

Being crypto poor has never been so engaging. Worldwide manhunts. @cryptofishx spaces. Liquidity book incoming. @joepegsnft mints. The bear market is still painful — no, brutal. But it’s during dark times like these that we see a brighter future.

The bear will end one day, you’ll forget to sell the top, and right here, we’ll meet again.