Kid#3: I want that goat!
Mum: Mint it
Kid #3: Why is it called mint? I don't like mint...
And so it was that kid #3 at the age of 11 minted her goat, her first ↑. She didn't really care about all the transactions she needed to sign, pausing only once asking why. She did not pause to wonder what she was signing.
How did we end up there? We need to go a couple of months back. To a time where she got her first mobile phone. Impatient, she took her birthday money and bought it herself. Not waiting for mum to buy it.
But now she had to wait - again - for mum to get her shit together and buy her a sim card.
No sim card, no Whatsapp. No Whatsapp no chatting with friends.
I'm not gonna drag the story out by adding fluffy details: We chatted using converse and I send her some eth, and later some $degen. She put both apps, converse and Rainbow, into the boring folder and continued begging for the sim card.
A rainbow notification propelled her into a new orbit. eth and $degen didn't mean anything for her, neither any of the other memecoins that got dropped into her wallet. But the big fat Euro number held meaning. With pride she declared to her sisters her new wealth, now the richest kid in the room.
"What can you buy with it?" she was asked
"What can I buy with it?" she asked me, hoping that I'm not gonna start into a mum-lecture about saving money or some other scienc-y nonsense.
Searching frantically for a meaningful word and failing, I showed her my NFTs. She liked the anime (thank you Pichi for it!) and after a tap, another tap, confirming a long number and a number tab nothing happened. Confidently, I hoped, I said "it sometimes takes a moment" while opening the basescan link. Red letters glared at me: Execution failed. Fuck, I thought.
Quickly switching course, we went to check out Zora. "You can buy whatever you want on here". She saw the goat and wanted the goat. tap, switch app, authenticate, switch app, tap, authenticate. Nothing. No mint button. Fuck, I thought.
Mum: "Oh you just need to get Higher"
Kid #3: ?????
Back to Rainbow, swapping eth for Higher, signing another transaction, back to Zora and minting. And: Nothing. Nothing in her wallet.
Mum: "It can take a moment"
At the end she got her goat, has some ↑ left, and understood that she should be swapping coins for other coins that make her more money.
