Happy Lunar New Year if you are reading this on the day. In 2021 as most of the world was living in the Year of the Ox, the Year of the 0x was unfolding in the Metaverse.  

While a lot of the world was STILL asking “what is a blockchain?".. PFP communities were busy running social experiments redefining how brands are created. Airdrops became a new form of guerrilla marketing. DAOs demonstrated how easy it is for strangers to self-assemble into value driven, goal oriented, collectives. DeFi ran a wild financial chemistry lab experimenting with new complex financial mechanisms (there have been explosions).

Everyone in the space, from the coders to the economists, from the pumpers to the dumpers, from the artists to the teachers are helping to create new industries, new cultures and maybe one day even new societies.

I invite you to help take a class picture of 2021.  To try to document the energy coming out of all corners of the world.  To catalog the organisers, the builders, the gamers, the artists, the writers, the educators…

All you have to do is tweet the hashtag #theyearofthe0x and tag 1 or more artists, coders, writers, shitposters … whatever, that inspire you in this space. You can add a message, other hashtags that describe your scene or interests better,  an account address, an ens, anything.  A simple twitter bot will collect and save every tweet with the hashtag and will make all the data publicly available so anyone can download.

What's it for? No idea yet. maybe a resource for a future documentarian.   Maybe a tourist map of crypto. Possibly interesting data visualisations and art installations. The data will be accessible on github for whoever wants to make something of it.

It would be good to get a better grass roots picture of the blockchain space than any one limited twitter timeline allows and do it before the corporations start trying to turn the blockchain into a McDonald's drive thru. I'm looking at you Mr. Zuckerberg.

The Chinese Year of the 0x ends, get ready for the Year of the Tiger.

Happy Lunar New Year if you are reading this on the day. In 2021 as most of the world was living in the Year of the Ox, the Year of the 0x was unfolding in the Metaverse.  

While a lot of the world was STILL asking “what is a blockchain?".. PFP communities were busy running social experiments redefining how brands are created. Airdrops became a new form of guerrilla marketing. DAOs demonstrated how easy it is for strangers to self-assemble into value driven, goal oriented, collectives. DeFi ran a wild financial chemistry lab experimenting with new complex financial mechanisms (there have been explosions).

Everyone in the space, from the coders to the economists, from the pumpers to the dumpers, from the artists to the teachers are helping to create new industries, new cultures and maybe one day even new societies.

I invite you to help take a class picture of 2021.  To try to document the energy coming out of all corners of the world.  To catalog the organisers, the builders, the gamers, the artists, the writers, the educators…

All you have to do is tweet the hashtag #theyearofthe0x and tag 1 or more artists, coders, writers, shitposters … whatever, that inspire you in this space. You can add a message, other hashtags that describe your scene or interests better,  an account address, an ens, anything.  A simple twitter bot will collect and save every tweet with the hashtag and will make all the data publicly available so anyone can download.

What's it for? No idea yet. maybe a resource for a future documentarian.   Maybe a tourist map of crypto. Possibly interesting data visualisations and art installations. The data will be accessible on github for whoever wants to make something of it.

It would be good to get a better grass roots picture of the blockchain space than any one limited twitter timeline allows and do it before the corporations start trying to turn the blockchain into a McDonald's drive thru. I'm looking at you Mr. Zuckerberg.

The Chinese Year of the 0x ends, get ready for the Year of the Tiger.