Monday, February 14th, 2022
While doing a search on github to find any open source punk code out there (try yourself - #cryptopunks) I found - the SolPunks Truth Foundation / Project and the Dumb SolPunks parody.
The now “archived” Dumb SolPunks website reads:
WARNING: Dumb SolPunks are NOT for everybody.
If you enjoy:
- paying 8% in fees.
- losing money with friends
- getting screwed like you’re Mr. Poopy Butthole. in the poopie-hole
LEAVE NOW. Head over to Solanart, pay $100 000 for their fake worthless SolPunks, and join their Discord.
HOWEVER, if you enjoy…
- Good memes
- A nice cold beer
- Are anti-pyramids
- Flipping off “Tractor” [- The SolPunk Lead & Crypto Bro Millionaire]
… you should consider minting.
Cost to Mint: 0.69 SOL
Connect wallet to see amount remaining.
And so on. From the F.A.Q.:
Q: Is this a joke?
Yea. A joke that will be worth 100 SOL – 10,000 SOL soon.
Q: Aren’t you greedy just like SolPunks?
Yea, of course we want to make money.
Longer answer:
- We have 0.69% fees vs 5%.
- We have 0 hype. 0 actual Fear-of-Mission-Out (FOMO) tactics (collab giveaways, pre-sales, etc.)
- We’re actively discourage people to buy dummies (don’t buy if you’re poor). This project has 90% chance of failure.
So how’s that? We feel we’re taking tremendous personal risk because we are.
We’re seriously good people trying to inspire others to do good. Don’t believe? Just go on Discord and engage. We’re friendly.
It looks like SolPunk Lead “Tractor” bullied with a (fake) claim of the SolPunks trademark the Ex-Facebooker “Chunke Monke” DumbSolPunks Lead and shutdown the minting of the parody tokens.
A crypto news report / story on punk tokens reads:
Chunke Monke [head of DumbSolPunks] bemoans this aggressive culture among some punk projects.
“I’ve seen many punk [non-fungible] token discords. They are not fun. There’s no love or adoration for the art or the story because it’s all hollow. There’s no meaning and no durable community.”
But, “Parody [non-fungible] token can retain a lot of value, maybe more than the original,” if they have a certain sense of good humor, he says.
Anyways, is the V1, V2, V3 Punks saga any different or even “dumber”, that is, sillier and more exemplary tale of human greed and stupidity? Is it a parody? Or a farce?
What’s your take? Questions, comments and insider news welcome.
Post them on the CryptoPunksDev reddit. Thanks.