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projectb59.com just got a new front door.
You can now choose between the Timeline to Bitcoin and the new Gaming History archive, covering early games, Sierra, Atari, consoles, virtual worlds, digital economies, preservation, and playable history.
The Sierra side also got a major rebuild, with new Vault records, source trails, and a much deeper Buckazoids section.
A special thanks to @caboken and Roberta, and to @TheColossalCave and @SierraOnlineUni for helping keep so much Sierra history alive.
And Ken, if you ever dig up anything cool from the old Sierra days that deserves a safe home, send it our way. We’d be very happy to preserve it in the Vault for you 😉
The nodeB59 Vault is now open 🔐
It's the home for the art and metadata of every nodeB59 NFT collection. The first collection is The Cipher Set from Nym Arena, with both pieces minted on Solana Devnet.
nodeb59.com/vault
Update on the Second Name demo: it's later than planned because I'm finishing the security work first. The two demo collectibles are already minted on Devnet. More soon.
We're getting close to launching the Nym Arena beta.
We've been working on the first game, The Unanswered Objection, along with Second Name, which explores optional credentials without compromising player privacy.
The idea behind Nym Arena is simple: games should be able to remember what happened without needing to know who played.
We're nearly ready for testing, and I'll be sharing the link this weekend.
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Nym Arena is coming together.
The Unanswered Objection is our first featured game.
Final integrations are being done and beta testing is about to begin.
modulo59.com/second-name
Stay tuned. We're getting close.
I am done being polite about this industry.
Not disappointed. Done.
I spent the last months pulling wallets apart instead of posting charts, and what sits in my database now is not a pile of unlucky trades.
It is hundreds of thousands of connections between wallets, coins, launch tools and payment flows, and they draw the same picture every time: industrial draining.
On Solana first, because that is where the machine runs fastest, but the same hands show up on other chains under other tickers.
This is not degens getting rekt. This is organised crime with a Pumpfun profile and a leaderboard rank.
You want to know what "KOL" means in 2026? Last week I followed 3 wallets off a copy trading leaderboard.
Their money does not come from calls. It comes from wallets that create coins by the hundred and by the thousand.
One of those feeder wallets has 4,578 coins to its name. In September alone 852 SOL net moved from the factories to the 3 "influencers".
One coin was created, dumped 33 seconds later, and the money sat in the KOL wallet 2 minutes after that. Then I checked the big names.
Leaderboard wallets with 103,000, 134,000 and 146,000 followers on Pumpfun that have personally created 1,759, 953 and 1,217 coins.
One of them is at 6,464. Create, buy in the same transaction, sell everything 3 to 5 blocks later into whoever got there in that second.
Same second, or the next one. Over and over. And these people get called traders. They get podcasts. They get "gm".
And the platforms? Fee on the way in, fee on the way out, and they call it volume.
So no, I am not writing you another post-mortem every time retail gets emptied.
The post-mortem is always the same and it changes nothing, because the people who benefit are the same people who get the reach.
Every "isolated incident" conveniently skips the question of who keeps getting paid, who keeps promoting, and why the exact same wallets are back in the game before the thread has finished loading.
I will keep saying it, because this space forgets everything the moment there is a new bag to chase. Some of my posts will get fewer views for that.
Fine.
But anger alone is content, and content is exactly what they want from me.
What I want is tools.
You should be able to look at a wallet and see its 1,217 launches before you ape.
You should see who funded the dev, which "KOL" he paid last week, and what you are about to sign, before the damage is done, not in my thread 2 days later.
That is where MASTR goes now. The intelligence machine gets wired into my apps and my sites, so the research lives where you trade instead of dying in a timeline.
The people who support this work get that intelligence first.
That is the only alpha I care about: knowing what is happening before someone else's exit becomes your loss.
And I will say the uncomfortable part out loud: I cannot run this for free forever.
Data, infrastructure, development, investigation, it all costs real money, even when the finished tool makes it look effortless.
I refuse to pay for it by renting my name to whichever project needs a clean reputation this week.
I also refuse to pretend I can subsidise everyone out of my own pocket while the drainers cash out your SOL and climb the next leaderboard with it.
If I survive in this industry, it will be because I built something useful enough that people choose to back it, and stayed angry enough to keep pointing at the machine it runs inside.
Receipts are coming.
Every transaction linked. Check me.
We are constantly finding new clues and pieces of gaming history. Never ending Rabbit hole!
Sierra On-Line emailed the cypherpunks list in August 1995.
Not theory. Archive is the receipt.
Sierra On-Line in Oakhurst, CA was already talking to the same list Hal Finney lived in.
Receipts > lore. ₿🚀59
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A good reminder how @Bitcoin is changing lives all over the world.
In 2013, Bitcoin wasn’t an investment story for me. It was a way to pay Afghan women who had little or no access to banks and to give them greater control over the money they earned.
I wrote about that experience for @WSJ, and why “permissionless” technology can matter most where traditional systems fail.
Thank you @thetrocro for sharing.
In the early 1990s, a group of mathematicians and engineers organized around a mailing list and called themselves cypherpunks. They were not optimistic about what was coming. They watched governments push for mandated encryption backdoors, prosecute a developer for shipping privacy software, and attempt to install surveillance mechanisms into the telephone network at the hardware level. They published their analysis. They wrote the code. They warned that a small number of institutions, given control of communication infrastructure, would use it.
They were right.
The tools they built -- b-money, Hashcash, DigiCash, Bit Gold -- are the technical lineage behind modern blockchain technology. Most of that work is disappearing. Forum threads go dead. Personal sites go offline. Mailing list archives rot. What remains is increasingly mythology -- a simplified story that starts much later than the actual history, strips out the politics, and loses the warning.
The mission of Project B59 is to preserve the history that preceded Bitcoin: the writings, the code, the archived websites, the mailing list debates, the forgotten projects, and the games. We locate primary sources, document their provenance, and make them permanently accessible before they vanish from the internet.
From the cypherpunks building anonymous remailers to the early virtual worlds that first experimented with digital economies, these stories share a common thread. The technical lineage behind the tools we use today was built by people who never got credit. Preserving the record is how we honor the work.
I got in!
Really excited to be accepted into the Solana School Fall Class. Over 1,100 applications from 134 countries, so this one feels pretty damn good.
Can’t wait to see what we build and who I get to meet along the way.
Thanks to @joshyote and @solana for these amazing opportunities!
Come join us! Floor is open.
This week on Tales from the Block:
Is Bitcoin Still Cypherpunk?
We’ll be talking about the roots of Bitcoin, the culture it came from, and whether that spirit is still alive today.
Join us tonight, Saturday 8/15 at 7 PM ET.
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This week on Tales from the Block:
Is Bitcoin Still Cypherpunk?
We’ll be talking about the roots of Bitcoin, the culture it came from, and whether that spirit is still alive today.
Join us tonight, Saturday 8/15 at 7 PM ET.
xitter.cf/i/spaces/1qKVmywwoqAxB
Join us tonight at 7PM!
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This week on Tales from the Block:
Is Bitcoin Still Cypherpunk?
We’ll be talking about the roots of Bitcoin, the culture it came from, and whether that spirit is still alive today.
Join us tonight, Saturday 8/15 at 7 PM ET.
xitter.cf/i/spaces/1qKVmywwoqAxB
We have a subject and a new time! Saturday 8/15 at 7PM. We're discussing if Bitcoin is still Cypherpunk. See you all there!
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Time to vote!
What do you want to talk about on Tales from the Block this week?
We’ve also got two quick polls up about whether we should record the Space and what time works best. The following week we're having the space during the week. More about that later.
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