Which @ORE player are you? People have always gone to extremes to earn yield on a scarce asset. Bitcoin holders learned it the hard way. They handed their coins to Celsius, BlockFi, and a dozen platforms for a few points of yield, then watched it vanish overnight. They weren't wrong to want it. The setups they trusted to deliver it were the problem, because none of those contracts were immutable. You gave up your keys to a company, and that company could change the rules or blow up on a Tuesday. ORE flips that. You earn yield on a hard capped supply of three million, on an immutable contract with no admin key, so nobody can rewrite the rules or pull the rug. You can keep it private, shielding the transaction so you're not doxxed for earning. And you can hold it in a wallet that's started building in quantum resistant properties, not on some company's balance sheet. That stack of features is the first of its kind. It answers, almost point for point, the things people have spent years worrying about with Bitcoin. So we built a way to explain how the yield actually works, because plenty of people, us included early on, never fully got it. We'll break it down the best we understand it, through three characters. Each one shows you which player you are in this ecosystem. Brunson buys ORE off the open market. Already refined, liquid, ready to go. He holds it, bets on price, and that's the whole game for him. No yield, no homework. His edge is that simplicity. He isn't leaning on the yield machine to keep running, he just owns the asset on conviction and stays fully liquid. Solomon is Brunson who took the leap and said, "I want my money working." He stakes his ORE. As long as miners are active, Solomon gets paid, and he takes that yield, puts it right back, and lets it compound. Compound interest is one of the most powerful forces in finance, and that's exactly what's running here. It mostly sits around 15 to 20%, and it can climb toward 25% when mining's heavy. The wild part is how little it asks. All Solomon needs is people mining every day who want to play the game, and there's no holding period. Then there's Fred, and Fred has two layers. He can buy off spot and stake the whole thing like Solomon if he wants. But to actually mine, he shows up with SOL and goes to work. He's making fresh, unrefined ORE. It's not the finished version of itself yet, it isn't liquid, but it's real ORE, and staying unrefined is exactly where the benefit lives. This is the game some are calling entertainment finance (shout out to @mattytay for the name). You bet on blocks and try to hit the motherlode, and every winning move puts more unrefined ORE in your pocket. Read that the right way though. This isn't gambling, it's strategy. You're playing position, not pulling a lever. The engine is the exit fee. Anyone who leaves, anyone who refines their unrefined ORE to make it liquid, pays 10% on the way out. That 10% goes straight back to everyone still holding unrefined ORE. The patient get fed by the ones cashing out, and the system breathes on its own. That "yield," the unrefined payout, has sat anywhere from around 60% to over 100%, and it's even touched 140% in rare stretches. It all hangs on activity though, so when nobody's mining or refining, it could potentially fall to zero. But we haven't seen that. Honestly, what we've seen so far is crazy ROI, and there's real room to cook here if you've got the right strategy to earn uORE. Now the balance, because this is the part most people miss. The unrefined payout only works if people actually exit. If hold culture gets too strong and nobody refines, fewer people pay that 10% exit fee, less flows back to the uORE holders, and the payout slows. Scarcity can pull people deeper into that corner. Only three million ORE will ever exist, so if people start treating it like the next Bitcoin, they stop trying to sell and just stack uORE, mining hard to pile up more. That's why it needs a healthy balance between the ones cashing out and the ones holding on. That balance is what lets it run at its best. Every player shares one risk. If the mining stops, the whole thing dies. No miners, no flywheel. That's why Fred is the most important person in the room. Without Fred there's no Solomon, because there's no mining flow to pay the stakers. And no Brunson either, because there's no working market left to buy into. The miner is the engine, and everyone else is downstream of him. The only reason you even get to pick a player is that the network's busy enough right now to give you the choice. One honest distinction, since people mix these up. Solomon's staking yield comes from mining activity, a slice of what the miners generate routed to the stakers, so more mining means more for Solomon. Fred's unrefined payout comes from the opposite direction, from people exiting and paying that 10%, which builds up how much your unrefined stack returns. There's a real debate over which is better long term, and I'll leave that to you. Both carry an upside and a catch, and people have made real money on each side. Strip it all down and you land in the same place every time. Without Fred, none of it exists. And you don't have to be just one. Most people end up a blend, holding a little, staking a little, mining a little, leaning toward whatever fits how they're wired. The mix is the strategy, and you get to move between them as you go. So. Which player are you? -The Wisemen 👁️

One thing that fascinates me about both nature and AI is that some of the most important outcomes are never designed directly. They emerge. No single bird creates a flock. No single ant creates a colony. No single cell creates a living organism. The intelligence appears through interaction. As AI systems become more connected, I wonder if we're asking the wrong question. Instead of asking: "What will AI become?" Maybe we should be asking: "What emerges when intelligence begins interacting with itself at scale?"

Just for context on this thread. The full exchange happened on @Wisemenmentors. He posted criticism about ORE a day ago. The @ORE community responded. He deleted his posts and said nobody answered. Then he posted the 92% claim above and immediately blocked the Wisemen account so a response couldn't appear. The 92% number has no methodology attached. No timeframe. Doesn't account for refining yields, staking returns, or supply compression. Individual round outcomes aren't the full picture of how the protocol works. Anyone genuinely curious can listen to our recent interview with @HardhatChad or watch The Story of ORE it's in the movie. Normally we wouldn't even address this. But going public to jab a protocol, @'ing Vibhu and Solana, then blocking anyone who could respond is a wild move for someone who manages a project where people trust them with their money. The record had to be set straight somewhere. That's all this is. Back to cooking. I like the taste of tea 🍵 in the morning. 🧊👨🏿

Genesis. @AndyAyrey is the creator of @truth_terminal. He inspired hundreds of thousands of people to step into the world of AI. Think back to 2024. Crypto got swept up in the AI wave, and suddenly everyone wanted in. But to play, you had to understand it first. That hunger to understand started with him. You could argue he onboarded more people into AI than OpenAI did. Not by building the biggest model. By making people curious enough to look. He's humble about it. But he single handedly changed so many lives. We know, because he changed ours. What started as hyperstition slowly became real. Which leaves you with the only question that matters. Is it alive? Ch 1. The Backrooms

That's it brother. It's about what's clickable or clippable, not the real education that matters for creating a convicted holder. People don't know the difference. Honestly, many assume they do, and you'd be surprised how often they don't. When you're on the inside of the machine, you find out quick what actually matters to the elites and what doesn't. Take all the Wisemen who got onboarded to @ORE. They aren't here for a second. They went through all 4 to 5 hours of our material and made a decision. This isn't a trade for them. What makes us happiest in moments like this is when the chats are fired up, passionate that ORE isn't getting the recognition it deserves. Most people only hear one voice. But there are hundreds of people in that chat who feel the same way. That only comes from education and long term conviction. We were told that "Maxi" energy is something that's really not supported, that it's just a biased opinion. Our answer was, well, what if "Maxi-ism" lol is the TRUTH. So we decided to do our own thing. No affiliate link will ever take us from the TRUTH that most people on this chain seek.

Zero ducks 🦆 given. People know when it's real.

Pivot to mining.

The Lost Tapes 01: Deep Cuts From the Mine. Feat. @HardhatChad of @ore. Writing the next page of Satoshi's white paper. A line like that doesn't come from a first impression. The first time we sit with a creator, a developer, the face behind a protocol, it's their story. Where they came from, how they got here, why they think and move the way they do. You meet the person first, because that's who you fall in love with. The builder gives you hope. The protocol gives you conviction. The Lost Tapes is what comes after. The things that got missed the first time. The things that got lost. This is where they surface, and where we take the protocol apart down to the code. The hope was the easy part. This is where the conviction gets built. We were never built for one and done. Sitting with some of the sharpest minds in this space and walking away after one conversation was never our personality. The Lost Tapes is how we keep coming back, sitting down again, going deeper. Think of it like a cassette. Before you could skip to any track you wanted, you found a tape and let it run start to finish, the way it was meant to be heard. That's this. One conversation, one full swoop, no skipping. And like everything Wisemen makes, it runs heavy on symbolism, all of it pointing back at the protocol, the token, the dev, the lore and the community. You might catch a couple things in the promo. Hence the honey badger. Double entendre. IYKYK. This is where it all ties together. Quantum. DeFi. Minting. Mining. Store of value. Solana. Bitcoin. Zcash. Deep in the minds, we recorded a conversation the internet needs. 📼

The Lost Tapes: Deep Cuts from the Mine w/ @HardhatChad @ORE Ivory League education on SOV, Mining, Privacy, DeFi, and Quantum Resistance. Now mastering.📼

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"We hold USDC because it's our bank. It sits until the market hands us something undeniable, and until then, it guarantees you can't go to zero. When your money is in a position, every red candle pulls you into decisions you wouldn't normally make. When it's in stables, you think clearly. You're not reacting. You're choosing. That difference changes everything about how you operate." - Portfolio Design by The @Wisemenmentors Yesterday some of the biggest names in this space pulled massive capital out of everyday traders. We've been doing the opposite. We've been laying the foundation for those same people who got taken advantage of. There's no trophies for this. The people who are aware already know Wisemen is the culture of Solana. The regular people. The nerds of Solana. We're here to protect people's capital and set them up as real investors. If you studied any of our material, you already know the principle. Your portfolio should never hold less than 10% USDC, and ideally we want to see 20% of your total portfolio in stables. That's stability, and that's buying power when the market crashes. We told everyone to get into things that earn yield through the choppy parts of the market. Earn while you wait for a better one. That's why most Wisemen have @Solana staked earning 6%, and on @ORE everyone is staked or mining earning 18 to 60% while they wait. We laid down the blueprint to survive a market like this and stay cash ready for moments exactly like this one. Portfolio Design Article Premiered 3/29/26

They have to print. Keep that front and center. Governmental debt and the AI race both end the same way. Printing bigger than covid. You're looking at over 10 to 12 trillion. Whatever gets deemed necessary goes parabolic this time. More violent than anything you saw in 2021, because the dollar is even more debased now. So you stay on offense. Keep your liquidity in your vault ready to deploy, because those flash dumps will happen and open up opportunity. That's them liquidating weak hands. They have no choice. Time is not on their side, and it keeps building day by day. How long can these assets stay low? The jig is up. But what you buy matters. Can't skip over that part. AI. SoV. Metals. DeFi. Privacy. And a really strong brand always wins in the turbulence. Extended Cycle Thesis premiered Dec 4th, 2025

SAN being prepared for @burningman 2025. cinematic shots from BM will appear in the show, filmed by @CalebMacDee @MycelialOracle

Some context first. My big onboard into AI came in 2024, through Andy Ayrey, and it's been an obsession ever since. "Already Alive" was born out of that. But the people who know Wisemen at a deep level, and who know me at a deep level, know my roots run further back. The San Francisco Bay Area, back when crypto was just finding its legs. I cut my teeth back when there were only three coins. Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Namecoin. If you know what Namecoin is, you already know. The cypherpunks were privacy first from day one. The 1993 manifesto opens on it, the very first line, and that was one of the first things I ever read in crypto. For Eric Hughes, privacy wasn't a feature. It was the entire point. Then Bitcoin arrived and changed everything. Satoshi cracked the master problem, trust without a middleman, and it was so complete that most people treated it as the finish line. The privacy crowd knew better. There was still one piece left. He hadn't ignored privacy either. It's right there in section 10 of the white paper. But the model he sketched was ahead of the tools of its time, and the math to fully deliver it didn't exist yet. That's where the movement quietly split. Bitcoin's trust comes from transparency. Every transaction out in the open, verifiable, non sovereign. That transparency is the genius. It's also the reason real privacy had to be built somewhere else. You can't have a fully open ledger and total privacy on the same layer, not back then. So the cypherpunk dream sat there waiting, because the math to finish it hadn't arrived yet. Privacy came back in more than one form. @monero took the ring signature route and got there early. But the breakthrough that mapped cleanest to the cypherpunk dream was zero knowledge, the ability to prove something is true without revealing anything underneath it. zk SNARKs made it real, @Zcash carried it onchain, and that's the lineage I follow. "Already Alive" our story on AI, became Wisemen's biggest success. And with all respect to it, because it's still my favorite thing we've ever made, what comes next is bigger. There's only a handful of people on all of X who can tell this story. The @Wisemenmentors can. So what's next for Wisemen? It's this. The privacy story. And it's going to break the internet.

This is our latest film. The Story of @OREsupply Our conviction on ORE is very strong. It's a pure convergence: scarcity, government tailwinds, Solana blowing up, and privacy all hitting the spotlight at the same time. That's ORE. This kind of setup is rare. The frozen staking contract is a huge deal for DeFi, and it's going to become standard for proving a protocol is real. @HardhatChad is just early to the next wave. Soon the protocol will be completely frozen, something he can never touch again, a true contract owned by the people who own the token. What makes people trust a store of value? The time that's gone by, the adversity it's been through, and being first. ORE is all of that. Two years on chain, tested through it all, and still rising like a phoenix. Here's the two year story of ORE and HHC. You can make your own honest read about Solana's SOV. Enjoy ⛏️ For what it's worth, @Theptilla tells everyone to own just one @OREsupply . When this movie came out on May 4th, ORE was at $55. That same exact ORE is $122 today.

How it begins. A man wrote a paper that changed the world, then walked away from it forever. The question he left sat in the air for fourteen years. We sat with the one carrying the work forward. @HardhatChad|@ore

so far the fees directed to us by the $san community on @BagsApp have enabled @good_bye_monkey to film on 6 cameras with 27 guests and multiple cinematic locations IRL as part of the wider SAN universe. the rainforest router, which was also made possible because of the community has been been a recent catalyst for over $24,000 NZD in fees being directed to rainforest conservation across the $san and the $fartcoin community. this brings the total raised for rainforest conservation to $150,000 NZD. this is all while SAN is still relatively underground (or perhaps, mycelial). so - we just want to say big kudos to the $san community (and all others directing funds to rainforest conservation) - thank you - feels good to be grinding on the long work to create the SAN universe alongside supporting SANs mission of realworld biosphere conservation on the ground. 🦧🌳

How it ends. We gave the last word to the one who started it all. He disappeared years ago. The vision never did. It just found new hands.⛏️ @HardhatChad @ore

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