We have a much bigger opportunity with BYEGARY. You can read about this one week old project in my previous article from yesterday.

Even if you are not directly interested in the evolving movement around BYEGARY, may this article still inspire you to think about similar (and bigger) questions in your communities.

The terror regulator will resign soon.

Not an if, just a when!

I think there will be many such cases coming out of the woodworks:

• disgruntled founders

• unbanked teams

• sub-poena'ed start-ups

• artists who never tried because they got intimidated

• ...

Don't be surprised if there the court cases from 18 States surfaced that General Warren had used Lieutenant Gensler; Maybe he was a pawn in the political attempts to halt crypto, DeFi. Or at least delay it long enough for the powers to be to adjust to the new realities, and to get a late stake on the ground via Blackrocks ETF for their wealthy and riskaverse normie friends. The FOMO on Wall-Street and in Government Halls around the world, will be a spectacle in 2025.

This is the time to share what we think, how we feel, and why we act the way we do. We are the "early" right, so it's down to us to guide the next cohort incl. institutions and regulators with good faith. Let's start by listing, analyse and make sense of the damage done.

Brian Armstrong was quoted in an article saying:

Coinbase CEO wants next SEC chair to apologize for ‘damage’ done

Run daily prompts as channel rituals for members to reply to. Examples questions:

• How did you feel as being demonised as a space by a powerful mandarin like Gary?

• What role did you think Gary really played, and in whose game?

• What do we not want to see from the next SEC Chair?

• What are our ideas, inputs and insights for the regulation that will happen now?

by propagating the #byegary meme, we can create a positive-sum secondary order effect for us all: we can use all available onchain social legos as a a showcase on how decentra social and consumer crypto actually works. People on X, on FB, Linkedin, anyone ouside of Farcaster can read in real-time (and even write in our channel without needing a warpcast app afaik) how we are creating a flywheel that we co-own, too: rewards on rounds, questions on ponder, bounties added by ai agents like mferGPT talks on tavern, earnings via moxie, channel fan-token, tipping via $DEGEN, NFT minting on Zora. Plus the brilliant games like Whack-a-Gary. All in one screen UX focused on BYEGARY.

GYEGARY narrative and lore becomes trojan horse to onboard people on farcaster, and on base. We can engage Dan, Jesse and eventually Brian; and of course the nouns community.

Imagine how this strategy could get our mission into much bigger media channels. Imagine if we collectively believed in ourselves and used our own farcaster channel as a public message to the incoming regulator, by us, good crypto people, and for all net-new normies to see. We won't be the outlaws and outliers much longer.

We can steward this channel towards winning. In addition to biting irony and dark humour via our BYEGARY memes, we can also leave collectively compounded feedback paired with a farewell party, and rounded off by some compassionate wishes, too. Michelle Obama style "we go high" which is also aligned with /higher

It would show that Ethereans (that's what we all are ultimately, right?) care about human values as people. I admire Gabor Mate's work on Compassionate Inquiry.

Winning stance: compassion for Gary the person and critique for Gary the chair.

We need to be critical, and now the space will become safer to speak up. We are ready to engage with the next Garies. We are ready to build bridges and to reach a hand. Because now we can. Now we are winning. Let's be generous winners who embody clarity, confidence, creativity, compassion and connection to something bigger than us.

I am still convinced that we should pool 1% of supply for grants. We can form a party.app DAO to vote on proposals for education in financial literacy and self-leadership.

How does this resonate? I am particularly interested in "Yes, and..." and "no because" responses.