Back in 2021, culture was what pulled me into this space.
The memes.
The inside jokes.
The experiments.
The friendships.
A bunch of internet strangers collectively deciding that some things mattered simply because we cared enough to make them matter.
Over time, the space grew.
So did the noise.
And somewhere between the charts, floor price talks, points, influencoors, alpha groups, farming strategies, engagement hacks, token launches, token relaunches, token relaunches of token relaunches, and whatever we're calling things this week... I felt some of that culture getting harder to find.
So I built Proof of Culture.
The idea was intentionally simple.
Every day, I say GM.
If you say GM back, you're participating.
That's it.
No mint fees, no gas fees for claims, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS SAY GM BACK!
The first epoch only required one day of participation to earn a flower.
Each new epoch increased that requirement.
A small nod to Bitcoin. Early participants had an easier path. Later participants need more consistency. The difficulty goes up over time, except instead of burning electricity, we're burning a few seconds of our morning.
PoC has now been running for over 80 days.
Today, Epoch 17 begins.
The experiment ends on March 17, 2027. Exactly one year after Day 1.
My hope is that by then, the ritual has become habit.
And the habit continues long after the experiment is over.
One thing I've learned during these 80 days is that culture compounds.
People return.
New people arrive.
Friendships form.
Artists contribute.
Stories emerge.
A simple GM slowly becomes something much bigger than a greeting.
Could the flowers become valuable one day?
Maybe.
Culture has a funny habit of becoming valuable in hindsight. Most cultural artifacts start out looking completely ridiculous.
A frog.
A rock.
A pixel.
A flower earned by saying GM on the internet.
Time decides the rest.
For me, the value has always been in the participation.
The flowers are simply proof that you were there.
If you're curious, spend a few minutes exploring
proof-of-culture.com
The phases.
The epochs.
The gallery.
The stats.
The artists who have contributed along the way.
Then join us today for Epoch 17.
We created Web3 because the internet needed something more than transactions.
It needed culture.
We created Web3 to own the networks.
PoC exists to remember why we wanted them in the first place.
Culture only survives when people participate in it.
GM 🤍🌸