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FirstBase is a 0/0 tax coin on Base Chain with burned liquidity and a renounced contract. With an anonymous dev and interesting connections to Fantom, First Base ushers in a new era of “meme.”
Or is it a meme?
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Greetings! I used to be what you nowadays call a ‘whale;’ well, until I beached myself. I mean not really a whale but among the core advisors of Fantom, in governance and delegation.
Do you all even delegate anything anymore? Andre and I used to pick apart fish clean to the bone until he became a Twitter gaslighter. And with that, or probably gradually even before that, began my disillusionment.
Blockchain’s framework is immutable and trustless, ingenious, and so even its principles and governing structures; it’s meant to be egalitarian but the only problem is the human stain. The only problem is I am the problem. Then followed my Amazonian mishap, where I got lost on a trail, lost contact with the outside world for 8 days. I was barely alive when they found me.
Both legs broken from a fall. Both eyes almost sealed shut from an infection. Among other things. Long story short. I left Fantom, I undelegated. From all of crypto. That was nearly 3 years ago. I was 35. Now I would give anything up for a good ostrich egg. My 14 year old son, not so much. That nerd listens to Deftones all day, makes memes, codes, and probably earns more than I could ever imagine. Don’t get me wrong, I had my Deftones phase too. For nearly two months he’s been pestering me about getting back ‘onchain’ and about a new L2 called Base. Believe me that’s how out of touch I’ve been after Fantom.
The word ‘consensus’ now makes me retch. I’ve never encouraged crypto talk with him, he got here himself, he’s sensitive enough to treat it as something that triggers me, because it takes me back to the accident, mostly.
I think the last thing he had ever told me, over dinner, about a year ago, was that Fantom can never scale. Not my problem, I told him. Now shut up and eat your fucking crab sticks. Until these past two months.
Base is the place. Base this. Base that. Get onchain. This is different. Why don’t you deploy something? Just for fun. It’s going to be onchain summer soon.’ So I sat up for a week and learnt more about Base.
That Jesse seems like a good guy, mild-mannered, not entitled, encouraging, and definitely not apolitical and spineless in his views like the rest of the industry, he realises this cannot be an echo chamber,
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crypto cannot be removed from the larger world and its events, it cannot be ahistorical. That the values humanity aspires for are the same onchain and offchain. That is, if you want to make any real change or do any good in the world.
He seems to stand for things, things not only onchain, of the outside world, and wants to bring those values onchain. Impressive. But I’m afraid soon enough Base will be labeled as the ‘woke’ chain.
How ironic that a majority of participants in probably the greatest financial revolution to have ever occurred in history, a sui generis asset class created out of thin air, or even as an ethos only, something unprecedented,
how ironic that these participants are so parochial in their views, right-leaning paranoid defeatists, cookie-cutter conspiracy theorists, with terrifying regressive world-views. (You can probably tell that I recently made a telegram account).
But more on that later, you don’t need this boomer spiraling right now. There is hope in Base then. I have hope in my son, therefore I have hope in Base.
TL;DR
I am deploying a token on Base from one of my FANTOM wallets that I haven’t transacted on for nearly 3 years.
I am pairing it with 0.05 ETHER (sorry, that’s like the price of 5 good Ostrich eggs, more than I’m willing to spare for this experiment on a Sunday).
I thought of sending 14% of the supply to Andre’s wallet, only him and I know the significance of that number, but fuck that crone, he’ll most definitely sell it.
I’ll have a buddy let him know though, should be fun. Maybe he’ll bridge over and build something good on Base or buy this token to play around with me, most likely the latter.
I will not be making any groups or websites or whatever it is that these tokens make nowadays. Anyone else is free to do so. Let’s see what Base does.
Soon.
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