2013
Three Bitmain Antminers and a bunch of Zeus miners humming in the guest bedroom next door.
MintPal was the hot exchange, Vericoin was the Alpha, and one morning the entire market got hacked and rugged overnight.
That was my baptism into Twitter pump-and-dump cabals.
Mining felt clean. You pointed machines at math, solved blocks, and Bitcoin landed in your wallet.
No middleman. No permission. You were literally your own bank.
Owning those private keys felt rebellious in the truest sense, like holding a middle finger made of cryptography toward every bank that ever froze an account or asked "why do you need your own money?"
Trading, on the other hand, felt dark from day one.
Same blockchain, completely different soul.
The same tech that was supposed to free us had already spawned cliques who coordinated pumps in private message groups and left retail as permanent exit liquidity.
Fast forward thirteen years.
We won some battles, lost others, watched Ethereum get born, watched it get captured, watched the dream get diluted by cartoon dogs, apes, penguins, and launchpad lotteries.
Let's be brutally honest:
❌ We do not need another meme coin launchpad
❌ We do not need another "100x or nothing" casino disguised as culture
I mean, I still joke about people treating crypto like Vegas and then crying when the house always wins 🎰
Still shaking my head at yet another Telegram "community" that is really just an exit-liquidity Telegram group wearing a hoodie 🧥
And I still laugh at the "to the moon" memes that quietly turn into "welcome to the bags you now own forever" 🚀
There is another way to play this game.
It is not slower. It is not softer.
It is sharper ⚔️
Degens rug and dump. Rebels build and connect.
That single choice still decides everything.
The original rebellion never died.
It just went quiet for a while, waiting for the noise to burn itself out 🔥
We are bringing it back.
Not with louder memes.
With better tools, tighter circles, and the same middle finger 🖕
Only this time aimed at both the old banks and the new fake-decentralized ones.
This is the story of how a handful of us decided to stop laughing at the circus and start sharpening the blades again ✨
To be continued…
