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Internet Culture for Zoomers: Wtf is Anonymous?
Recorded: Sept. 10, 2025 Duration: 0:58:18Space Recording
Short Summary
In a recent discussion, the launch of a new token associated with the Anonymous movement was announced, aimed at funding hacktivism and education. The collaboration with Money Army emphasizes educational initiatives and offers participants opportunities to earn rewards through engaging tasks.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Hi! I rugged a little bit. Sorry about that. Can you guys hear me?
Hi! I rugged a little bit, sorry about that. Can you guys hear me?
Yes, good.
Hi, Nyx! How are you?
I'm great. How about you?
Good. Happy.
Oh my god, is that a rooster?
Yes.
Does he have a name?
No, I've told you already had a lot, so we don't have names.
Oh, gotcha, gotcha. Still, though, very tranquil, very nice. Makes me think it's early in the morning, though. Well, welcome, everybody. I guess we'll give everybody a few more minutes to get in before we get started. But today's going to be super interesting. Today
is going to be one of my first educational spaces that is more than just kind of shitposting back
and forth. I want to talk about what the fuck is anonymous? What is it? What are all these masks?
What have I engaged the army in? What's going on? And what is this culture
that's driving this new kind of movement coin? And what is hacktivism? Those are the things I
want to go over today. So it'll be super interesting. About halfway through, I'll start a
task on Money Army, which is I know why a lot of you are here for some money. And I love doing it.
I'm super happy to see you guys. But hopefully you can learn. And I don't know,
before that, while we maybe give people two more minutes to start trickling in, I got a few other speakers up here. You guys want to say anything about not I won't?
No, I'm good. Hi, everybody.
Hey, how are you?
I'm fine, I'm fine.
Believe, how are you? I'm fine, I'm fine. Believe, how are you doing?
Hey, I'm good.
We don't have a chatty bunch today.
That's okay.
Next, anything cool happening with you?
Nothing special.
I just got home from my grave guard ship.
And I'm here with this place. I'm so excited, guys.
Those roosters are going nuts. Holy moly.
Well, welcome home. I'm sorry that it's so... What time is it for you?
It's currently 7.04 a.m.
Oh, shoot.
Yeah.
I just got home live at 6.30 am.
Geez Louise.
No wonder the roosters are going crazy.
Yes.
Ah we have princess too.
Let's see a princess will come up.
I invited her. We'll see.
I think I muted
everybody. Sorry.
Let's see if Princess will come up.
Invite to speak.
Nope. Twitter's glitching.
Dang. Are you guys still muted?
I guess so. Okay, hold on.
Trying to mute and unmute won't let me.
Now we're gonna be. It won't let me. No, we're on a bit.
Okay, good.
Yeah.
Sir Grace, you have anything pertinent to say before we get started?
Yo, yo, yo, yo. GM, GM, everyone.
Yo, how you all doing?
I'm good. Happy. Okay. I'm good, too. I'm good Happy Okay
I'm good too
I'm glad you're doing well
Mary, you have anything cool to say
Before we get started?
I guess not
Princess, how about you?
GM guys Good morning from my end I guess not. Princess, how about you? GM, guys.
Good morning from my end.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Sorry, I wasn't here yesterday.
The time yesterday was out of my schedule.
I was meant to be by 5 a.m. for the kids,
so I wasn't able to be up until 3 a.m.
That's okay.
No worries, no worries.
Okay, well, I think we probably have enough to go on here.
Let me grab my notes, and then we can get started.
First off, let's do thumbs up or thumbs down.
Does anybody know what anonymous culture is before we start?
Have you heard of anonymous?
Do you know these masks?
Do you know what these are?
Thumbs up, thumbs down.
Let's see. I don't see any thumbs. Oh, we got thumbs up from Princess.
Not seeing a lot of thumbs. I'm going to guess that that means thumbs down.
Okay, so I have now we've got some thumbs down, some thumbs up.
Well, so the mask that you're seeing here, and one second, I'm pulling up my notes.
It's part of an internet movement that's pretty old, actually.
And so yesterday on this base, some people brought up that they didn't know what anonymous was. Like, what is anon?
What are all these masks that we're putting in that you're seeing on profiles?
So I think I'd start there.
And the
mask is definitely where it all starts because this mask has become like an icon. So when people
think of anonymous, the first thing that comes to their mind is that this white mask that you're
seeing all these people wear in the space. It's like a smirking mask with a pointy mustache and
stuff. And it's a Guy Fawkes mask. Guy Fawkes was popularized by a graphic novel
called V for Vendetta. And in the 2005 movie adaptation, the story, the protagonist, V,
wears this mask while fighting against an authoritarian government. So the mask that
you're seeing has been adopted as a symbol of like protest and rebellion, something that can
hide your identity. Much of the reason that we do in crypto is like protests and rebellion, something that can hide your identity. Much of
the reason that we do in crypto is for protest and rebellion. But it's also to send a message.
And the message is we are many and we won't be silenced. So when you put on this mask,
you're not from Nigeria, you're not from America, you're not a woman, you're not a man,
you are part of a group.
So it became kind of a shorthand for Anonymous and more broadly for digital age resistance
against oppressive powers. So that's one of the reasons that I partnered with these people.
I haven't asked you guys ever to back a meme coin. We've only ever done tasks for
projects that have live products and projects that are not anything to do with
coins necessarily. This is the first one that I've decided to back. And it's because of what
anonymous stands for. It's because of what Kurt wants to do with this coin and make it a movement
coin. But more than anything, it's because of this mask. It's because of this symbol of protest and rebellion against centralized
authoritarian regimes, right? So that's where the mask is starting. That's where we're kind of just
meet me there. Let's start with, I guess, where this came from. So Anonymous started back in
early 2000s on boards like 4chan, where Anonymous was
kind of the default username. If you didn't pick anything, you'd just be called Anon. You've
probably seen sometimes in tweets for years now, I just call people Anon. That's where it's from.
It's from old image boards. And out of that like absolute chaos, some users began organizing collectives, online actions, like mostly pranks and trolling.
But over time, it became more to do with like politics. It was less about mischief and more
about messages. In 2008, there's a battle with the Church of Scientology, and Anonymous launched
something called Project Chanology, which was protesting censorship after Scientology tried to suppress a leaked Tom Cruise video.
Suddenly, those pranks turned into an actual activist movement.
People wearing these Guy Fawkes masks showed up in the streets outside of Scientology buildings around the world.
And that was the moment that I think that Anonymous shifted from just online pranks from 4chan to actual political
movements and more importantly a stand against oppressive powers. Since then there's been a lot
of digital operations that have combined like hacking, mass protests, and political demonstrations.
Some of the biggest ones that you might know of was called Occupy Wall Street. They became really closely associated with that movement.
They supplied publicity and digital muscle, which just basically means that they are righteous, right?
Sometimes chaotic.
But they came into this space and the spaces that they find.
And this they there is never really a centralized group.
It's just a group of people.
It's people who get tired of things, people who get tired of oppressive regimes or oppressive
governments or oppressive movements.
They've also been associated with things like Operation Payback, which was an attack on
organizations that were anti-piracy, including Visa and MasterCard.
So it's not necessarily always that they are on anyone's side. It's more against
oppression. And that's what I really think, like, especially in the Web3 space, the next move,
the next, like, I guess, vehicle for anonymous to move forward, to me would be a coin, because
that's where everything is coming from, right? So we started with the mask, we went into
boards, image boards, like 4chan, we went into the streets, that was the next movement that came.
And now I think that's sort of the direction that things are moving. One of the strangest
things about anonymous is that it's not really an organization at all. There's not a leader,
there's no membership card, There's no headquarters. It's
an idea. Anybody can declare themselves anonymous and it makes it really powerful. That also means
that some of the operations that they have are principled and then some of them are just pranks.
You know, some of them, I think there was a splinter cell from this called Lil Sec. I can't
read my own notes right now. That caused a lot of chaos in like 2011. But where they are now is everywhere, right? They're absolutely
everywhere. And the point of Anonymous, again, is to stand up. Stand up for things that you believe
in. They're digital activists. This global phenomenon has started and today lingers on
as a symbol of hacktivism.
And that's where the founder, Kurt, comes in.
I wish he was here.
He and his mom were here yesterday.
It was so cute.
Kurt is definitely an outspoken guy.
And he has started this coin initially to fund his legal defense for some of his hacktivism.
for some of his hacktivism, but it sort of evolved into a movement. And one of the biggest things
But it's sort of evolved into a movement.
that he's doing that I think is great is setting up scholarships for future hacktivists and people
who want to learn cybersecurity, privacy software, and the ability to basically keep doing what
Anonymous has done. Even if on the outside, it looks extremely chaotic, on the outside it looks extremely chaotic on the inside it really is pretty much crypto
ethos um digital activism in a nutshell is crypto ethos in a nutshell so i know that was a lot that
was a ton of much that was my intro there i hope you guys liked it um but that's who we are and
that's what anonymous is about and that's why I even associated the army with this coin
as because I want you guys to learn about this culture.
And I want you to learn where the roots come from
because this is a big part of understanding internet culture.
And if you understand internet culture,
crypto culture is downstream from that.
And understanding crypto culture is gonna be extremely
lucrative in the coming weeks and months.
So before we move on, does anybody have any questions about that or anything cool to add? No? If you're just shy, you can add
any questions, comments into the bottom right. Yeah, bottom right, there's a purple little comment
block. Oh, we got three in there. Let's go see.
It says, we can hear you. We're here live. Welcome in, everyone. Great.
Guys, while we're here, if you could like and retweet the space, you know the drill,
and give all of our speakers a follow. But for sure, like and retweet the space so we can get some more people in here to learn. But anybody have any questions before we go
forward and talk about a little bit of what like Money Army and Anon are doing together?
No. Everybody understood perfectly. I don't buy it. Where are y'all? Come on, wake up.
Next, you understand?
I understand pretty fully.
What was that? I understand. I understand. I understand.
I understand.
So I have no position.
How come you don't have a mask on?
I had to take mine off too.
I'm gonna put it on.
It is definitely a task.
It's a pretty cool task.
Nyx, do you understand all of it?
Well, yes, man.
Well, right now, I think the coolest part about Anonymous is that there is no central collective, right?
Nyx's rooster is weighing in i'm so sorry don't be sorry he's cute it's so early he's doing what he's supposed to do he's doing rooster stuff
um so anonymous today doesn't really operate as like a central collective right there's no one
group you could join there's until recently you really couldn't find anything associated with anybody besides just
websites and various like small groups. And that's because its core identity is still enduring after
all of this time, after what, a decade now, two decades, is this Sky Fawkes mask and the ideology of decentralized activism.
So large scale operations under the anonymous name are not ever going to happen.
You know, there's not this big, big movement.
There's only movement coins now.
There's still small groups you can find in old, I don't know, 4chan relics.
But the thing that's so exciting to me is this seems like the next natural step in old, I don't know, 4chan relics. But the thing that's so exciting
to me is this seems like the next natural step in the evolution here of, of anonymous. Um,
there's definitely, let me see, I'm trying to read through your non hunters. I guess there's
smaller, like hacktivism groups, um, new collectives that kind of still use this Guy Fawkes mask to their advantage. But anonymous
is still like the ethos of crypto. It's decentralized leaderless activism that just
lets anybody put on a mask, pick up a cause and move forward. The influence of newer groups,
a lot of people who mimic like the style and technical posture is cool. And there's definitely a blurring sometimes of activism and political statements, which can make it kind of hard to know who or what to believe in.
But our kind of journey here with this coin and with Money Army and with Anon is all about education, cybersecurity, and understanding why privacy is so important in crypto.
Anonymous today is a lot more symbolic than it is operational, but somebody like Kurt,
who has made this coin, is trying to convert what is symbolic and just internet culture
into something real and funding defense campaigns for other people, funding education for new coders,
funding software that helps with
privacy. I know you guys know Money Army. You guys are all part of Money Army, I'm sure most of you.
But another product that I built is called Cryptic. And Cryptic is privacy software. It lets you use
ChatGPT privately. And it strips off all and you can save things about yourself in it without having to expose
your data to anybody else. It saves it encrypted. It can only be decrypted with your private keys.
And that means that when chat GPT sees your text and sees your stuff, you're going through
cryptics API, which means that it's never tied to your personal account for Queen Wartooth.
It goes through cryptic. And when you save things about yourself or Queen Wartooth, it goes through cryptic. And when you save things about
yourself or Queen Wartooth, it saves in gibberish. Nobody but you could understand it or decode it
without a signature from your wallet. I like it. I think it's pretty cool. We're slightly popular.
Money Army is definitely way more popular than cryptic. But these things are super important to
me and I think super important in crypto. And if you are hoping to get jobs in crypto, work in crypto, find alliances and people in crypto, privacy is definitely going to be one of the number one things that people talk about.
why we're even here. Anybody have any questions on that one? If so, you can either speak up or add
them to the bottom right in the comments. I'll give people a minute for that one second.
Hang on, I have to type something really quick, so talk amongst yourselves, I guess.
It's so hard. Nyx, you have to bring up some questions for me.
For me, I don't have a lot of questions to you, but to others, I just want to know their
experience with Manny and Amy or Eynon in particular and what are they saying right now that Money Army and Inon have a collaboration?
Anybody have Money Army questions or Money Army experiences they want to talk about?
Oh, we're about 20 minutes in. I can add the task.
Everybody ready for task?
We've got really good education coming up this week.
I think today's education is just about anonymous and what is it and why are we even here? What are we doing? We're adding in some education. Oh, wait, Mary, did you want to mute? What's up?
What's up?
Queen.
Yeah.
What's the connection between Money Ami and Anonymous currently?
So currently we are using Anonymous.
Anonymous is funding a bunch of prizes.
And the prizes for that are for doing things like attending a space, completing education, putting on a mask.
things like attending a space, completing education, putting on a mask. We are also
learning about this week memetics, how to make a meme, how to make a memetic video,
and what hacktivism is, what this core idea of what Kurt's belief is. All of these things kind
of go and tie into crypto ethos. So there'll be paid tasks to do that as well. Those are USDC tasks. And then in
a few weeks from now, as soon as I figure out how to integrate Solana, we'll actually let you mine
this Anon coin by either passing quizzes about some of the stuff you've heard today or creating
content after you've learned how to make them edit content and how to create these videos.
So you'll have the opportunity to learn
the core idea of this, learn about what anon is and be sort of versed in internet culture,
learn how to make memes and what makes something memetic, learn how to make videos, and then
actually be able to mine this coin by completing these tasks and build your reputation in the
space. You'll then have things under your belt. If you ever want to go do more content creation,
you'll have things to point to,
to say this is an example of my work.
That was pretty much an idea.
I have another question.
Will every quest like attending spaces,
putting on the mask, go only through Money Army?
Or does Anon have another platform
where we, the army, can also participate? Or is it just Money Army? Or does Anon have another platform where we, the army, can also participate?
Or is it just Money Army? No, just Money Army. I think Kurt intends, he's planning with this coin,
to set up like scholarships and set up different, not necessarily like a task-based platform, but
more like scholarships for coders that he's identifying or that have built some prominence like on GitHub.
So that way he can help them, I guess, I don't know how to say this, like subscribe to crypto
ethos, subscribe to like privacy and hacktivism and all of this stuff that he is working towards.
So hacktivism is kind of a funny word, and I want to make sure it's basically a
protest, right? And it's kind of part whistleblowing, part digital graffiti. And it's always controversial.
It definitely is always controversial, but that's the intention. It's powerful. So hacktivism is not
necessarily the center of this coin. The center of this coin is anonymous, but that is something that
Kurt wants to fund with this coin and why it's a movement coin and not a meme coin. He has a lot of plans in the works, interviews and stuff,
a bunch of publicity coming. And while number go up is super fun in crypto, it's definitely why
most people are here. I think that if you can find something you actually believe in,
and you find something that you think this is a cause worth backing. Those are the
things that don't just give you a temporary boost in, you know, a meme coin going up a few percent.
It gives you an understanding that you need to find work in the space later. It helps you to
understand when you yourself are being targeted or persecuted, why these things even occur. You know, it's a response to unfairness.
It's an almost immune system response. So that's something that he's wanting to do with the coin.
My platform is Money Army. What I want to do with my platform is create jobs and make sure that
people have the proper education to get jobs. And this is kind of our first experiment into that.
I can make free education all day. I
have, and nobody will do it. What they will do though, is do paid tasks. And when they do those
paid tasks, some of them we can gate by saying, Hey, if you want to do create memes, you know,
for money army, you have to finish the education on memetic content and the content and the
education that are coming out this week are all sponsored by Anon
and me. Both of us together are sponsoring these things for you guys. Strength in the army one,
that's the most important thing. And to kind of help each of you understand this culture from
the beginning, right? And to understand crypto culture, again, you've got to understand internet
culture. And one of the biggest, biggest, I guess, groups in internet culture is definitely a non.
Okay, anybody else have any questions or stuff cool to say? Because I want to add the task,
but I don't want it to just be quiet in here for three minutes while I do it.
Nobody? All right, you can listen to me sing.
I'm just kidding.
Alright, by the way, if you want a mask for your profile picture, you can go to maskifyanon.org.
Here, I'll put it in the comments.
And it will, got maskifyanon.org. Oops. Okay, I added that in the comments almost. Maskifyanon.org.
Put on a mask. It's fun. It's really fun, actually. Let me see. Believe as well. We're ready for the task. We understand. Great insight.
Future's promising. Okay, great. Lots of compliments. No questions, though. I'm kind of sad about that.
But yeah, head over there. You can upload your PFP. You can control the mask.
Set the size. You see a bunch of people in here with it on.
And then in a few days, slash, probably by next week, so I still have to do
payday in two days. Probably by next week, we'll have another paid task for putting on a mask or
making your own art with the mask. So let me go add the task right now. Create new task. So let's
see, you can kind of see my process here of doing the task. We're going to say join the money army anon space.
The instructions here are really easy.
Join the space, which you guys have already done.
You're halfway there.
Upload a screenshot of your PFP. By the way, guys, some of these yesterday when people were turning in
tasks, you need to upload a screenshot of you in the space. So don't just upload a screenshot of
the space. You need to upload a screenshot of your PFP in the space. You should be able to
scroll down and see yourself if you cannot. Your PFP in the space, get credit. Okay we're gonna do, let's see, I don't know how many
people are in here right now. We had like 800 in the last space, looks like around 50 so we'll go
ahead and do 100. Max users 100 and we'll put this payout out at $1 since we only have a few people. You're welcome.
XP25, we will do image upload for view.
And end this in about an hour.
Alright, task is live. Go ahead. Everybody go do that.
And that was a small overview. If you don't know Money Army, that's how Money Army works.
It's fractional labor. And what people are willing to pay for right now with raiders and with
engagement and stuff is simply participation. But it's not just rote participation where you just
sit there and kind of exist. That's step one. What's really valuable is making your own accounts
valuable. It's making sure that you understand culture, you make memes, you know how
to make content, you know how things work kind of in crypto. You have a good grasp on the terminology
that crypto uses and the internet culture uses. Once you have those things, oh, I'm seeing
everybody pour in. Yeah. Once you have those things, it becomes a lot easier to find other like-minded people.
And once you find like-minded people and you have some skills to back it up, it then becomes
pretty easy to find work in the space.
Naturally, people will have projects and things come up and say, hey, you're really good
at making videos or you're really good at hosting spaces.
You've been working with Queen Wartooth on Money Army.
Do you think you could do
what you do for me? And if you are extremely talented and really, really good at it and a
little bit lucky, you can even make a career here in Web3 doing those things. That's a little bit
beyond my scope of where I'm comfortable giving education and helping people out. But what I can
help you out with is fractional work to build up your resume, fractional work to build up your
skill level so you can just practice and providing free education. The education and tasks will never
cost any money. They're all free to do and they all pay out in USDC. And then in a few weeks,
again, as soon as I figure out how to integrate Solana into this, we will be able to pay out
tasks in Anon. We are paying out tasks right now in USDC.
My own coin, TIC, which is associated with cryptic, is sometimes given as an incentive,
but not very often that I'm kind of saving that for when we do more cryptic centric campaigns.
So for right now, it's just stable coins. And I know stable coins maybe don't go as far in the
United States, but in other areas, they go pretty far. And it adds up. I think already this week we've had like, I don't know, $1, 50 cents, 25 cents. So
probably by the end of this week, there'll be three or four bucks worth of prizes, which again,
not a lot, but it's something and it adds up. The cool thing with meme coins or movement coins,
or even larger coins like Ethereum or Bitcoin, is that a USDC is always going to be a dollar.
No matter when or how you get it, no matter what's given to you, the USDC is going to be worth one USDC.
That's sort of the point of a stable coin.
But movement coins or other coins or coins like TIC or ETH or anon, those fluctuate in value. So they could
go way up. It behooves you to hold on to them. They could also go down. So just be aware of that.
Don't count on coins like that for like income. And please, all of my money army, listen to me.
If you ever do genuine work for somebody, don't get paid in coins, get paid in stables,
get paid in money that you can take out. No one will be mad at you. Make sure that if you're getting paid, you're getting paid in something valuable, not something speculative. That is education that's coming later. Any questions about that so far?
I'm gonna guess by the sounds that there is not.
Ah, I see you all coming in though.
Good job, good job.
Looks like we've got a little comments in there.
No questions though.
Task done, thank you.
Yep, perfect.
Make a screenshot like this.
You did great, I believe.
I'll go ahead and pin yours to the Jumbotron up there.
Maybe. Oh, maybe I can't. Anyways, so that's why Money Army and Anon are working together. As you
guys know, we try and find clients, but I don't just take any clients. I don't want you guys to
be exposed or associated to just something that's really flash in the pan and short-lived. I want
to do stuff that ties in with education, ties in with the ethos that I'm trying to teach in this whole entire curriculum, and helps you better get immersed in the space for later.
That's really my goal with this.
And that's why I think Anon is such a good fit, is because it is so synonymous with crypto culture and with just internet culture in general.
Anybody having trouble submitting their task? Everybody good?
Yes, Hannah, everything's fine. You're fine. Good job, Cleen.
I'm just kidding. Okay, hold on. What do non-culture and crypto-culture have in common?
All right, last section here. Anonymity and pseudonyms. So if you notice up here,
I just said my own Christian name out loud, but I am fairly doxed and will be much more doxed over
the coming weeks. I'm Hannah, by the way. But you see here that we don't, oh, there's Will,
my friend. You see here we don't all have our own, hold on, how to speak, our own names up here.
Some people are called Believe. Some people are called Nix. Some people are called Princess.
Those are called pseudonyms. And so Anonymous, the very name of that, comes from users that are
choosing to remain nameless, right? They use these
masks and default usernames to dissolve individual identity into a collective. The downside of that,
you know, and is of course, like you lose sort of your core identity. That can be a good thing or a
bad thing, but that's sort of what anonymity really means to the anonymous movement.
Now, in crypto, we have the same thing, right?
It's not just being Nix or Princess.
Your wallet is how you stay suge anonymous.
Instead of being Queen Wartooth, I'm queenwartooth.eth or 0xfgh, whatever.
But those things are your login, right?
It kind of replaces what your identity is. So you
don't need your real name to participate. You just need a wallet. And your wallet, of course,
is just a completely anonymous string of letters and numbers. So those two things, pseudonymity
and anonymity, go hand in hand and are very, very closely linked with internet culture
and crypto culture.
Let me take a break really fast and say hi to Will.
Hey, Will.
Sorry, I'm outside.
I forgot it was 7.
It's a beautiful day in New York.
Oh, I hear that.
Oh, my gosh, it's pouring.
But I'm here for it. How are you doing? I'm that. Oh my gosh, it's pouring. But I'm here for it.
How are you doing?
I'm good. Happy.
About halfway through.
We've just been talking about anonymous culture,
crypto culture, kind of the history of anonymous,
and then money on me stuff.
Okay.
Alright. Okay, I won't interrupt you. Sorry.
No, please interrupt. Oh my god, it's been just me
in dead silence, but everybody's listening. That's good.
Oh, okay.
Do you have any questions so far?
I mean, I've never been in Ireland,
but I've always been okay having my faith up and center.
And maybe one day I will.
Yeah. You're brave for that.
You're brave.
Maybe it'll bite me in the ass, but as of now, I'm okay.
No one's ever, no one's threatening me with anything.
I don't know.
That's good.
Yeah, I wasn't on for a long time.
I've kind of gone back and forth between like face doxing and slight name doxing and just
going, but I don't know if anybody has seen my pins tweet.
There's a lawsuit coming and it is basically if I'm going to ask the other people to be doxed, which I must do to the rules of the land.
Um, I felt it was only fair if I was doxed myself and there's some legal strategy to that as well.
And there's some legal strategy to that as well.
But yeah, you got to put your face on.
If you are going to raise a ton of money, if you're going to try really hard to win a lawsuit, if you're going to do something that requires you to stand on business, sometimes it helps if you just put your face on things.
It's the exact opposite of what anonymity and pseudonymity is trying to do, which is to dissolve your identity
into a collective. That is super powerful, but sometimes you want to use, you know, you want it
to be will that is doing something and not necessarily a big anonymous collective.
yeah i i i i like it that things like if i do something it's specifically from
me and not like on behalf of like a nebulous group of people yeah um i i try not to get
in a habit of identifying with nebulous categories of people um but i get why you would.
I mean, if you have, I don't know,
if you just want, like, there's a side of yourself that you can't kind of show in public
because of, like, propriety or, like, just polite society
or, like, you have a job and we're worried about losing that
or, like, I don't know.
There are plenty of reasons why you would want kind of an anonymous or suit anonymous.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Kind of identity.
And also, I like, I mean, I like persona.
I mean
I like persona
I think that like
having kind of an identity
that you can inhabit
that isn't
that's like separate from yourself
but like kind of brings out something
that like you need
in like a particular moment
like for
I don't know
a public presentation
or like
I don't know
I have to go into this meeting
and I have to like be a real like kind of cunt or like something I don't know, I have to go into this meeting and I have to like,
be a real like kind of cunt or like something like that, you know, it's like,
but I don't know, I like being well. I like that you're well. And I think you nailed it,
you know, some things you want to dissolve into a collective about, or if you need
resistance from censorship, if you need resistance from surveillance or corporations or governments,
or you want to keep your money really private, those are all like super good reasons to be
anonymous. But if you want to do something that you want to sign with your name, that's a very
different level of trust. So that's kind of what I'm conveying here. I don't know if you noticed, but today I not only took off
my mask, I took off my PFP, my beloved pixel lady. I'll probably put her back on at some point,
but I wanted to kind of show the difference here of why you're anonymous and why you're
sued anonymous and then why you're not when it's time to sign something and stand on business.
pseudonymous and then why you're not when it's time to sign something and stand on business.
So going back, we got a little bit derailed there. I was excited. But a non-culture and
crypto culture of what they share, right? And what we just talked about was anonymity and
pseudonymity. God, that word. Pseudonyms, right? Using pseudonyms. They're core to both cultures.
The second thing that they have in common here is decentralization and leaderlessness.
Right. At least in crypto, it's kind of that way, more so in theory than in practice, because there just needs to be people involved.
There's still just people. But in anonymous, there's no leaders and there's no hierarchy.
Right. Like you've just become a part of a movement. You're just part of a collective simply by how you believe, you know, and putting on a mask.
And that just basically means instead of like five or six bankers in a room that are all deciding on something, which is centralized systems, we use decentralized systems.
And that means that there's a consensus of minors and validators.
And even insofar as apps and DAOs and projects, all of those things can have no real clear leadership and instead be community run or run by a large group
that's all voting and trying to get consensus. Some people argue this is still centralized,
and centralization is definitely a spectrum. It's going to be really hard to find something that is
100% decentralized. It's just almost impossible. Right now, our best hope is Ethereum. Ethereum is probably the most
decentralized. Some people would argue Bitcoin is the most decentralized. I'm an ETH person. I
really think Ethereum is the one that is most decentralized. But again, it's a huge spectrum.
And it's something that I really want to go into in the education later this week
about this decentralization and idea of leaderlessness, because it's a big
it's a big tenant in anonymous culture as well.
Both of them in crypto and Internet culture and non-culture are extremely meme driven.
They basically thrive on these in-jokes, which is one of the reasons why I wanted to start
our first education off, not necessarily with like, what is crypto?
What is a cryptocurrency?
But with like, what are these things in general? What is internet in jokes? You know, what are
culture wars like on Twitter and Farcaster? What are these things? Because if you don't understand
the shared culture, and you don't understand the history of it, it's going to be really,
really hard for you to ever really feel like you're belonging to a crypto community. And that's,
I think, the number one edge you can find in crypto is belonging to a community.
It's permissionlessness, permissionless. So in crypto and in anonymous culture,
anybody can be a part of anonymous. Anyone can join anonymous. You don't need anyone's permission.
You just do it. And it's more about how you believe
and what you do than who you are or who you know. And it's the same thing in crypto.
Permissionless networks in crypto mean that anybody with an internet connection can join it.
Whether you like it, you don't like it. Whether you like the person, you don't like the person.
Whether you like the country or the nation or the culture, none of it matters. It's all global, borderless and permissionless.
So those things tie really heavily into what anonymous is about.
And that's kind of why when you understand anonymous, you understand crypto in a very, I think, sort of easier to grasp way than just going through based on like explaining what miners are or explaining what validators or nodes are. And there's ambiguity to both. People with anonymous,
sometimes they're hailed as digital freedom fighters. Sometimes they're condemned as cyber
bullies. With crypto, sometimes it's seen as financial liberation. Other times people say
it's all a scam. It's all speculation. Both of these groups sit in that messy chaos between utopian idealism and just human realness.
But each of them is striving to do more, right?
To represent a rebellion, a decentralized, pseudonymous, anti-authoritarian, and meme-fueled movement.
Anonymous kind of weaponizes hacktivism and information and data.
Crypto weaponizes value.
Crypto makes you so that you can operate outside of centralized, really oppressive regimes.
Anonymous makes it so you can operate outside of those same things.
The two go hand in hand.
And that's really, really why I tied the project to Money Army.
Okay. I think that was my last section. Does anybody have any questions about that?
We got about 10 more minutes.
Nobody, nobody has any questions. If anybody else just wants to talk about their day or just
shit posts would be good too. As a reminder, the task is up and live on Money Army.
We are doing 100 prizes.
Let me see how many we have submitted so far.
Oops, let's maskify.
Money Army.
We have filled up.
We have filled up the tasks.
Good job, guys.
That was quick.
I'm super proud of my army.
Thank you for showing up, as always.
And we will have another space tomorrow.
We will have more education tomorrow.
And I think there's also a Farcaster.
Yep, the next four days we have play a game of Letter Loops.
Nothing to do with the non, just another client.
All you have to do to win that prize, get yourself 50 cents,
is head over to Letter Loops, solve today's puzzle,
and upload a screenshot that shows your Farcaster ID. You can head over to moneyarmy.lol if you want
to take part in any of these tasks. I think our mask up, Anon, yep, we completed that one and
completed the Money Army Anon space for today, but there will be spaces the next two days,
more Letterloop stuff, more education, and more tasks, which means more money.
So head on over if you want.
Oh, we got friends here.
Let's add him as a speaker.
And then we'll wrap up.
How are you guys liking these spaces so far?
They're just an hour.
They're just kind of a, usually it's a little bit more like bantery.
This one was sort of lecture-y, but i did want you guys to understand so wait i mean i liked what
i heard wait how long have you been doing this this is day two okay oh wow okay
do you like it
um i think tomorrow's i haven't decided what the task is tomorrow yet for just attending the space,
but I definitely want to put in like what I talked about here into the education and then add quizzes.
And that way people can't just get credit for coming in.
They got to come in and pay attention and answer the quiz questions, but we're still getting there.
Hey, how's mirror mirror stuff coming? We'll take a small side oh um pretty good yeah i mean i
so i i've been quite attached to like the because before i just wanted it to be like either like
it's like a multiple choice thing or like uh, you're like typing in like what you see,
like in the Rorschach test, like kind of like thing.
But like, I don't know.
I just, I really like the idea of like being able
to kind of draw something quickly
and then like have an AI kind of put together
kind of a model based on like what you drew.
And like, I don't know, let's say like the same two people put together kind of a model based on like what you drew and like
I don't know let's say like the same two people
like draw a cat but like
you the strokes that you
make are like have a certain kind of density
and like you press down on your screen if it's like a
phone whatever with a certain kind of intensity
and like how quickly you do it
and all those things kind of like
change the exact kind of 3D
model of a cat that like kind
of shows up um cool and yeah yeah and i'm just kind of like i figured out the drawing thing i'm
just trying to figure out like okay like how do you connect that in a way that like you get kind
of like a cool like spotify wrapped kind of like you know with the brain visualization you know
yeah yeah the
insights insights um for those of you who don't know Will is helping me with v2 of Mira Mira um
v1 of Mira Mira was cool and all it's neat it makes a chat box uh but it was a little bit boring
and it definitely wasn't more like it wasn't fun more than once and so to try and get a little bit
like more art into it and more depth into it um Will has a project called Refinery where, and correct me if I'm wrong, I might butcher this, but Refinery sort of turns data into these 3D spatial visualizations.
So you can see the relationship with data points with things like distance and depth and like 3D-ishness.
depth and like 3D-ish-ness.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, I think that the core idea is to build like an SDK that,
which is a software development kit that allows people to take kind of the kind
take kind of the kind of core engine and put it into their apps.
of core engine and put it into their apps.
And it allows you to kind of quickly iterate through different ways of visualizing a piece of data or, I don't know, like a mind map of your ideas or like a lot of different kind of things in different kind of ways.
in different kind of ways.
And then there's just cool
3D morphing and stuff like that.
That's just kind of stuff that I'm obsessed with.
TLDR, it's going to be really fucking cool, you guys.
So I'm so grateful to have him on
to help me out with Mirror Mirror V2.
Money Army, as you guys know, is working on V3.
We have V2 out right now, and it works. It's good.
We get you paid. We do tasks. But I'm working on just getting a lot more feature rich ideas that
are kind of, I don't know, coming down the pipeline into that without creating a whole bunch of new
bugs. So Money Army, when it was, I don't know if you guys remember, when there was about 80 of us,
it was a lot easier to manage.
And my Vibe Coded site worked well.
Since then, we've grown quite a bit.
We're up to almost 7,000 users strong, which means that the tasks fill up really quick.
And it also means that bugs impact a lot of people.
So I'm trying to make a V3 with some actual software engineers and some actual people who know how to code.
And they're kind of taking the ideas and the scaffolding that I've built
and building it into something that is scalable
and that can go up and take us from 10,000 to 100,000
and be professional enough to get us more and more clients.
But we've got a big client and a few small clients.
We've got a bunch of people that are interested when V3 comes out.
I'm really excited because more clients means more prizes, which means better opportunities for you guys, more work history for you guys,
and we keep building. So we've got v3 Money Army in the works, v2 Mirror Mirror in the works.
And then if you're a girl, we've got v1 OVA in the works, another encrypted privacy first app,
which is a period tracking app that keeps your data secure.
Oh, I saw some of the designs for that that I think he's screen tracking.
I don't know who you retweeted. I can't remember what her account was.
Let me pin it. It's Raksha? Raksha?
They look good. They look good.
Okay, I'm going to go find the tweet.
Yeah, she's doing the designs for this for me i've
gotten super busy lately and so she is handling like the oh yeah here we go i'm gonna pin it
uh she's actually handling the hold on i can't talk and type at the same time
share use space there we go uh she is handling the front-end design for the mobile app which we're
actually trying to get on the app store it'll be my first app truly a true app not just like a
website i know are you proud i'm really proud i was i love you oh everyone gets uh everyone gets
like their own like little like radioactive like tampon creature thing yes that's exactly what it is
we were kind of trying to go for like is he an egg owl like what what is he is he a girl boy
so and the first he's a tampon he's a tampon that's actually perfect we'll make him a tampon
or a pad or something um but yeah he's just he or she whatever you pick in there is just your
little guy you know that sort of helps you through.
And obviously with AI, there's a ton of cool stuff that a bunch of people are doing with your health data and especially for women's cycle tracking.
But they sell it and they're really open about selling it or they leak it or they get hacked.
So the cool thing with all my apps, everything is built on top of these cryptic rails, is that if somebody were to get into my super base account
and have my password and could see everyone's data without your wallet signature the data is
gibberish it is just a bunch of encrypted letters and numbers just like a crypto wallet
you cannot read it unless there is a signature from your wallet thanks to privy that was actually
pretty simple to integrate and we use s encryption, which is the same encryption that Bitcoin uses.
So it's pretty secure and I got a lot of haters, I got a lot of ops and it hasn't been hacked yet.
So I'm excited.
It looks good.
What's your name?
Raksha. Raksha her name? Raksha.
Raksha, yeah.
Raks.
She's pretty cool.
She did a good job.
Yeah, she's working on it.
And we have a ton of neat stuff that's coming out with that.
That's not going to appeal to a lot of people in crypto because the vast majority are male.
But hey, they've got sisters and wives maybe and girlfriends and mothers and stuff.
So hopefully that'll take off a bit
um but i know for a fact that testing that out looking through it we'll have a partner mode
so that if you do have a sister or a girlfriend or something that you want to track you can test
out the app um and we'll for sure have referrals and cool stuff about that on money army as soon
as it's out we're're like, honestly, moms with
teenage girls. I think that's honestly
like... Yep, we're going
16 to 25 is sort of our age range
here because all the other apps are so
dirty. If you ever look at them,
half of the content is all about
sex and pleasure and stuff like that
which I'm like, alright man, mind your business.
I just want to tell you about my cycle.
Wait, is that... which I'm like, all right, man, mind your business. Like, I just want to tell you about my cycle, you know? So I...
Wait, is that...
Wait, is that...
I don't...
I don't have a good sense of period seeing.
That is true.
Yeah, it's dirty.
And also just...
It doesn't really take your, like...
I don't want to say dignity
because there's no, like, indignity in having a period.
But, like, you get notification stuff where it's like,
Queen Wartooth, is your period late? And light and you're like excuse me in my train notifications can you not um and they have yeah just a ton of like content and stuff that in
other cultures especially is completely verboten and in our culture it's kind of weird to market
to children so and girls start their periods under the age of 18 all the time. And there was, there has been no app that I found that doesn't mix in like basically like cosmopolitan
magazine levels of like how to boost your orgasm. And like, you know, my cousin, my best friend,
she has daughters that are 15 and 16 and is uncomfortable with giving them apps and access
to apps and cycle trackers that are a little bit,
I don't know, we'll say PG-13 to R-rated.
So we're making it cute, sweet, fun, clean, and just I think there's a market for that.
Yeah.
I'm still like, I'm still like on like,
oh, I didn't know that like, period, I didn't know that a lot of the apps in the space also have, I don't know, that kind of Cosmo kind of sex tips.
Right? It's not weird. That's the last thing I want to think about.
I just want you to mind your business and track my period, man.
But it left a hole in the market, which is good.
And I think maybe those those because they're all
trying to target an older demographic because those people have money um it's easier to like
mix in everything in there and do your mental health and do your fertility tracking and do all
this other stuff that really like what the app needs to be is just a tracker for your cycle and
help you kind of understand your moods and what's happening in your different phases and i want to track it to moon stuff or like uh i don't know eastern medicine
that rakshan has been showing me like just you could have all these different options and using
ai it's pretty easy as a wrapper the hard part is the encryption and having to trust someone else
with your data and we've solved those problems so all we have left to do is just build a cool app excited i'm excited i won't i won't be a user but i'm excited thank you anyway your support
means a lot um all right guys we are coming up at the top of the hour and so just letting you know
the task did fill up thank you for stopping by i really appreciate you guys showing up and listening
um i think tomorrow we'll do a quiz
over what the fuck is anonymous and kind of the differences and similarities that we talked about
tonight. And that way I can see who is really paying attention. Tomorrow we'll also have another
space. There's still Farcaster Tasks up and we should have some more education up on memetic
content, which will be really neat to listen to. and maybe we'll even do the space on that, on memes
and memetics and what that means.
But I'll see you tomorrow. We will try
really hard to schedule these for a different time
for my Nigerian friends, but
for right now, they're going to stay around this time
between about 6 and 8 p.m.
I'll let you guys know a more specific
time as I know it.
Sounds good?
Yeah, good, good, good.
Sounds good.
Wait, what's a good time for our Nigerian friends?
Probably like, I would say
2 or 3 p.m. my time.
Because right now it's like midnight for them.
1 a.m. now.
And we started at 6.
Now this is like 5 a.m.
I wanted Nix to be here.
Nyx, for those who don't know, has a contract with Bunny Army.
She is a space angel and is learning how to do spaces, how to run them, how to make sure there's no dead space like I have all the time.
And for her, this is super early.
But she gets off of her grave shift and then comes straight into this, which is admirable.
And I'm very happy to have her here.
Space angel.
That's why you can see her rooster sets up.
And I'm like, how can we be mad at the rooster?
It's literally sunrise.
He's doing what we can do.
Anyways, guys.
I want to be a space angel.
You want to be a space angel?
Come on, come do a contract.
It'll be fun.
Okay.
All right.
We'll figure it out.
DM me.
Thanks so much for tuning in. Thanks for listening to me
at Yap, and I will see you tomorrow.
Bye.
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