A Curious Spark

So, amongst more interesting developments within web3, one digital artist finally accepted one of the most tested adages of time. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

See? Memecoins aren't just jokes, they're culture, and more importantly, they have the potential to be transformative vehicles to people's lives.

How I used AI to make a $20M memecoin

I mean, while I want to venture into the hearts of men, with topics centered on the Dark side of Social Media (DoSM) you have digital artists using memecoins as performance art! It's striking, really.

While this Cinderella story makes me want to drop everything and code, it cannot be forgotten that the some of the primary drivers of participation in this wild, digital speculation are fear and greed.

It's the former emotion, fear, specifically, of Missing Out, that drove me to investigate what exactly possesses people to participate in this over something like that above.

There's so many factors, honestly, I could spend my life chasing leads in many different directions. The cat's outta the bag, right? Is crypto in the mainstream? If it isn't, the latest banking failures might lead people to investigate 'ultrasound money'.

Curious enough as to the motivation for people to participate in these frenzies of financial speculation, the concept that an artist could theoretically monetize themselves as directly as producing their own currency is reminiscent of the early years involving wildcat banking.

The interesting caveat, Rhett Mankind only sought to bring attention to his real vocation, his artistry. The movement begs so many questions. Do ends justify the means? Now that he's ceded control of the token, what happens next? He's gotten the desired outcome, viral media attention to his token- what can we take away?

Is there a way to replicate this phenomenon? Will I need to develop a token to support curation of my work? Or does written literature by Malcolm Gladwell have a less tech-saavy answer?

And lastly, on the matter of actually reading books, I finally opened a DM on a social media platform (SMP). It was a 'life hack' that involved utilizing AI to summarize books, to save time, money and effort. Ah, exquisite.

If CliffNotes didn't finish the job, the expedience of man's laziness drove the final nail into the coffin. I'm of the opinion that true retention of material involves the labor. Quickening how much you get from books doesn't deliver the value you think it does, in my humble opinion.

An age has come where to get support, you must offer coin and to learn something, you need only have it read and re-hashed to you. How exciting.