Identities Season 1 @TransientLabs 25 1/1's 0.05 22nd May 5am AEST

IRL community events in my opinion are crucial for the future survival of NFT’s. Looking forward to tonight’s last minute open invite dinner at my pad in NYC. I don’t know 95 % of the people that RSVP’d but that’s the beauty of it. Kinda like minting a new project, you never know what you’re going to get :) @BoredApeYC @mfigge @wonk1m @yugalabs @MeebitsNFTs @CryptoGarga @sergitosergito @Dannyb0yyy_ @OthersideMeta

🐧 🦍 🤖 🐸 💀 🐺 🐻 🦎 🐔 🦫 👻 IRListheAlphaIRListheAlphaIRListheAlpha 🍻 Join me for drinks, food and fun! Club events are cool, but I’d like to see them all come together. ✍️ Details are in the Luma, PLEASE RSVP if you can attend. Space is limited and I’m making reservations. luma.com/5ihan88z

Over the past few years, I’ve woken up to random @CoinDesk articles shitting on our industry, and specifically NFTs. That alone wouldn't bother me. Criticism is healthy. The press should hold this space accountable. But while Coindesk takes $ 300k to write glowing “research” around companies in crypto, they also write ragebait headlines that shit on the same industry. Pretty annoying to see. It’s bad journalism to ask for $ 300k for an article, and if we don’t pay, you write negatively about us. There are so many other news outlets actually trying to make it by covering bright stories in our industry. There are so many other twitter spaces and communities that show up daily to move the space forward. But what Coindesk is doing can’t be a sustainable model. So a few weeks ago I opened up a short position on Coindesk’s parent company, Bullish. This isn’t about money, it’s about principle. The principle: you can’t hurt our community for your corporate gain. Why can a business shit on an industry it participates in and still aim to profit within it? Well, it can’t. That was my bet anyway. I’ve now closed the short up $5,387.46. To be clear: the position is closed. Nothing I write here profits me from a trading standpoint. The trade is over. What's left is the principle. I will use the money to take Bored Apes out to dinners, or Laker Games, or whatever the fuck I want - and every time I do, I will post an entire article about how I got the money (shorting Coindesk) and why I think Coindesk’s current approach is bad for our industry. Congrats Coindesk, you’re now at war with a fucking psycho. I will relentlessly bearpost this behavior until a representative reaches out to me and assures me that they’re going to knock this shit off.

BAYC #9098 Secured @ 50 ETH via @GrailsOTC. Congrats to buyer & seller.

Absolutely loving seeing BAYC back at 10 ETH and lifting the whole space with them. And you know what? This is a wake-up call for the Pudgy Penguins NFT ecosystem. We’ve seen the Pudgy team providing playbooks to other teams for years, achieving incredible results, but also attracting hate for not being humble enough and, more recently, for not focusing enough on NFTs. It’s great to see Bored Ape Yacht Club leading the way back to the roots and showing how to do it, and even greater to see the Pudgy team humbling themselves, understanding it, and applying the same playbook to their own community. Respecting each other, learning from each other, pushing each other. This is the way. This is the new NFT landscape. P.S. Apes and Penguins traded for months around a similar floor price range of 5 ETH. Now there’s a huge price gap. If Pudgy can break past 6, I can easily see Penguins flying to 10 after that.