managed to build a decent chunk of my current bankroll during the height of NFT mania last cycle, i remember owning 20%~ supply of some well known collections at times
twas -ev to share things back then but back when things were super early you could gain an edge on the market just by being sliightly technical
extremely bootleg (apologies to my technical mentors) but back in the days of candy machine filled dopamine (followed by flexing on
@EyezNft lol) i would run testing tools like browsersync which would essentially let you control multiple browser windows from the one
i’d combine this with crawling a website to find a mint page in advance or even guess it at times (it was often some combination of
mint.domain.com or
domain.com/mint lmao)
this simple combination alongside setting up phantom to auto-approve transactions was enough to essentially mass mint in scenarios where a mint page was known - i still remember collectively owning 50% of the
@irrelevants_nft collection at one stage
this was all prior to the sneaker botters coming/taking over, eventually I joined one of the first bot groups on
@solana at the time - which I guess has become a bit more normalized as we’ve seen with the evolution of unibot, banana gun -> the axioms / phantoms of today
anyway I guess my takeaway is to always look for ways you can gain an edge on the market and to always challenge the status quo – tbh idk if I would of ventured down this path if a close friend didn’t question if it was possible
your edge might not always be technical but its always important to at least be aware of where you have asymmetry and size in off the back of this
do badgers still follow badgers lol 🦡