BYE GARY, HI...?
#byegary is the meme
$BYEGARY is the meme coin
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
My big idea
Create a nounsspace for the /byegary channel hosted on www.byegary.wtf
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.
They'll listen to us, but what do we want to say?
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
What if we (also) wished Gary all the best?
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.
BYEGARY can be a 100M meme coin with a mission.
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.
Am I the only one who thinks there is a bigger opportunity?
Say bye bye to Gary
The purpose of this article is to activate anyone who wants Gary Gensler to resign. I'll share some ideas on how you can contribute to making his exit period entertaining.
BYEGARY is a satirical meme coin on base created to unite the crypto community around a shared critique of regulatory overreach. Gary Gensler's time as chairman of the S.E.C. felt like a terror regime for many founders, creators, investors and everyday crypto users.
Combining irony with sharp humor, BYEGARY highlights the unintended consequences of regulation by enforcement: meme coin mania is a thing precisely because this chair.
BYEGARY taps into the community's resistance to over-reach of Gary Gensler's regime. The incoming Trump Administration paves the way for progressive legislation for crypto currencies and web3 at large.
Our community aims to spark a larger conversation on shifting power dynamics in society with creative content. Many of us are fed up with being entrapped in 5-9 jobs only to then be protected by the political and economic elite when we want to invest our hard-earned savings for a little more freedom and flexibility. We all know this is a rigged game! The current legislation is in fact complicit in ushering in the Low-Float-High-FDV epidemic where retails gets dumped on by regulated investors aka VCs. We had enough, and we respond in the most crypto-native way: with Gary's very own meme coin propagated by our creative content.
BYEGARY is our farewell gift. Let's send it 
Ok, banger, but how do we get make waves, create a movement, reach the masses? Let's start by starting.
Project Information
BYEGARY was launched by Maretus on Clanker a new token launcher deployed by Proxy. Maretus is fully doxxed and highly respected on Farcaster. He started the Success Channel with one of the most successful Hypersub memberships around. Maretus is also a trail-blazer in the Moxie community and has received the second largest grant in the Moxie Retro1. I trust him.
Then afaik there is also Niko on the core team who has 6K followers on Farcaster who received the third biggest Moxie grant. He is an active member in the channel I am hosting called Farcasterland. I trust him, too.
Of course you shouldn't trust, but verify:
CA: 0x39e6eed85927e0203c2ae9790edaeb431b8e43c1
Dextools shows a healthy 50K liquidity and the plan is to lock it in early December.
Token distribution looks healthy with Maretus holding 3.6% and Niko 2.9% on Thu 14th November 2024. I hold around 1% and there are a few other whales that are in a private group setting up all the plumbing for Dex, TG, CG application etc. The vibes are positive and mature, otherwise I wouldn't pay with my attention.
The best way to dive deeper and share your thoughts, ideas, critique, content and above all, your enthusiasm is to become a member of /byegary on Farcaster, follow the unfolding exit on X or join the TG. You can find all vital information on this temporary landing page.
Memetic Strategy
Like all great meme coins this meme coins is about community, creativity and content. This where we got to so far:
Check out the meme contest on Rounds and contribute your own to win some $BYEGARY
Play Wack-A-Gary the 2nd game from the team and earn $BYEGARY (you can play without owning any but you have to own 500K coins to win the prize. Gary Gamified
Listen to my AI-generated EMO song capturing the essence of the problem and our response (any fees will go into the team treasury for sundry expenses)
ByeGary's Endgame?
Speaking for myself, I want this meme coin to have some positive-sum game outcome when it has run its course. What if we created a DAO with a treasury of 1% of supply to fund grants for creators, educators and trainers to educate people with less financial literacy and you and me?
For my daydream to become serious opportunity we have to send this to a market cap between $5M and $10M. Steep uphill attention battle, but not a mission impossible? This Ponder Survey is just 2 hours old at the time of writing but the channel members think it could very well achieve this. Vote if you read this within the 24 hour period.
Call to action: your contribution?
These are loose ideas based on what I currently see might be valuable contributions:
Meme propagation: raid relevant tweets, or re-cast or re-tweed memes tagging the usual KOLs
Agentic Acceleration: which AI agents can we use to do outreach for us 24/7. Wanna build one?
Grassroots politics: get the attention from crypto advocates of #standwithcrypto
Time Square Flashmob: if we ran 15 second billboard ads on Time Square in NYC every hour for a day, how could we augment this with humans performing a flashmob, which can be filmed and send to news and media outlets?
Anthem: are you, or do you know proper musicians who want to make a proper theme song for the charts? Imagine people on Time Square or elsewhere chanting its refrain...
Games: create more funny games for people to find some release and relieve after years of terror
Podcasts: get Maretus on crypto pods or connect him to podcasters or youtubers who want to promote this super early opportunity to their followers just like it happened today on Thinking Crypto (full episode)
Wormhole: if you are deep into Solana and this satiric project resonates, why not create a wormhole for the existing token?
Endgame: how could we turn this fun project into something with a lasting legacy like funding education? DM me or Maretus
XYZ???
All thoughts and ideas a mine. NFA. DYOR.
Bye by Gary!
51
Building Farcasterland
Look at the image above: the shape acts as the border for the imaginary country called Farcasterland. Like borders of nation-states, the black-line acts as boundary to the seemingly impossible shapes and colours inside the silhouette. Just like the artwork feels magical (at least for me, more on that at the end) I often catch myself imagining Farcaster as a utopian network state where fully present people play infinite games. Am I the only one who has this fantasy?
if Farcaster became a network state, I'd want to be a citizen on day one.
I have met some incredible farcastoors IRL, engaged with 100s on warpcast, and also dived into 1:1 video calls with people who seem mission-aligned.
Fact is, I don't have such a high density of high quality human connections IRL where I live.
Speaking of human connections, an early instantiation of farcasterland might be just channel members, the famous Dunbar number. Let's check if you are aligned with my long-term mission:
I want to co-create and co-live in a regenerative community.
Let me explain:
Many years ago, I dove into the world of systemic thinking and self-organisation (holacracy, sociocracy) where I formed my own view on complex models like Spiral Dynamics and Integral Theory. Then a few years later, I trained as a psychedelic coach supporting people to prepare and integrate psychedelic journeys. I learned a ton about Internal-Family-Systems (IFS), Trauma, Inter-Generational Trauma, holotropic breathwork, bio-hacking, neo-colonialism, and Ancient Wisdom traditions. Plus, I learned directly from various visionary plant medicines in form of mystic experiences, ego-deaths and cosmic union. However, the most profound and lasting impact of my personal and professional growth path is my global community.
I am grateful to have met some of the most beautiful (meaning kind AND holistic thinking AND intentionally acting) people on earth; they embody what they teach, propagate or 'sell'. Many of my friends operate at the intersection of inner work, self-mastery, creativity, entrepreneurship, systemic change and planetary regeneration. I have directly learned from luminaries like Daniel Schmachtenberger, John Vervaeke, Christiane Seuhs-Schoellenberger, Nora Bateson and Alexander Beiner.
In parallel, I have dived into many blockchain-crypto-web3 rabbit holes over the last four years. What struck me most is not that some people are unabashedly here for the casino only, and nothing but the casino. No, it's people who are often well regarded founders, VCs, authors etc. who sincerely, genuinely and profoundly believe that technology will just solve our problems.
Techno-optimism is insufficiently holistic to be treated as THE solution for the meta-crisis.
I was a die-hard atheist, rationalist and e/acc proponent when I was younger. The experiences over the last 10 years have influenced me to become more of a d/acc advocate (don't agree with some overly defensive currents) so perhaps I rather subscribe to an n/acc - natural acceleration approach: the complexity on Gaia is naturally growing according to the (known) laws of thermodynamics.
Diversity of existence is naturally accelerating.
Sure we have species loss of epic proportions, but we also have, epigenetically-speaking, a Cambrian explosion of diversity: every single human is 1000x more different and diverse compared to other humans than any other animal is to a fellow of the same species. Maybe an unintended consequence of identity politics is turning 8 billion people into the sample size of n = 1.
How? Humans might look reasonably similar, but the world we construct in our minds, scaled to 8 billion, creates almost infinite constellations of energy - and the universe is nothing but a constant shape-shifting of matter from one energetic state to another. And our beautiful minds, they create all these memes...which is why Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in 1976 in The Selfish Gene.
No matter how many scientific and academic accolades he has won...
I wouldn't want to have Dawkins as a neighbour in my Farcasterland...
because he seems incapable of admitting he is wrong, accepting other views with his heart and being open to the world of the esoteric...which makes me wonder what story he keeps telling himself to feel ok inside. Sorry Rich, but Atheism is just another belief system and scientific 'knowledge' lasts as long as its invalidated by new theorems from the next generations.
Ok, but who would I want to have as neighbour in a regenerative community located ideally in a New Climate Oasis?
You guessed it: my inner circles on Farcaster plus my closest friends and peers from the tribes mentioned above. Ideally a human that embodies these implied systemic choices:
There is, of course, no perfect Farcasterlander - my forebears tried that under Hitler and we all know how it ended!
To be crystal clear: these virtues say everything and nothing about you or me as a person. Irrespective of how we look, live, love, work or parent, wether we are introvert or extrovert, no matter of what we pay attention to - we can choose these virtues (or not). Why these? Well, afaik they are all life-affirming practices:
if we choose them = WAGMI
if we don't choose = NGMI
Life wants to life. Memes want to propagate.
Right now, network states are mainly memes, Balaji's big vision. It seems like they are an idea whose time has come - and nothing can stop this, just like no power can stop hyper-structures like Bitcoin or Ethereum anymore. Praxis got $500,000,000 in funding and has 14K early citizens. Big fish. The Network School has opened its first cohort in Malaysia. It's happening.
On the other hand, Próspera feels like too much like neo-colonialism for me to. Just next door in Costa Rica (as well as Europe) I know of at least a dozen local experiments, initiatives, structures, festivals and gatherings for Co-living that aim for healing and regenerative transitions.
Vitalik got a lot right with ZuZalu but it was transient by design. Co-here is making small strides but I'd rather buy a share in a village in the UK or on Crete. Why always exotic locations? Why not where we already live? I don't know but I notice this: despite the swathes of digital nomads and the global co-working movement, when it comes to co-living we are nowhere near there yet:
Co-living is lagging Co-working as a concept bc it's more complex. Nice design space then.
Farcasterland = our design space
Praxis Nation or another emerging network state projects with ambition are an audacious cast into our future. They will take time to realise. Rome wasn't build in a day. Even if today's infra and tools can be build 1000x faster than in ancient Rome, changing and uniting our worldviews, our beliefs and our values arguably takes longer than current roadmaps and runways would envision. Let's start by building the social substrate in this channel first: We are the people we have been waiting for. It's time for our shot.
Ok, banger. Now what?
Change happens here-now and the only way to start is by starting...let's start in our little sandbox in this cozy corner of the internet. Where else would we dream-up a new way of co-living by co-creating small onchain experiments in dialogue, coordination, governance, impact and becoming?
Why becoming? You cannot 'know' the emerging system by what John Vervaeke calls Propositional Knowing alone.
You need to also intentionally experience the shift from old to new system.
You need to participate in the moment-by-moment transitions because otherwise you won't co-create its next iteration. As a result you will fall back to to a level that is not farcasterland-aligned:
victim: life happens to me
POV: a good citizen of Farcasterland might be a blend of Creator and Co-creator with a dash of Becoming.
Now what?
Right, hghgmm, here is a hint of something some people call roadmap;
become a fully present member of Farcasterland channel
share why you are there, what piques your interest
co-create our vision, mission and values in fast iterations
participate by casting valuable observations and insights
engage in open-outcome-oriented dialogue
educate the interested in systems thinking and self-leadership
invite other mission-aligned people
onboard people you'd want as neighbours in Farcasterland
someone build a website for www.farcasterland.xyz
someone wants to be a channel co-owner or mod
experiment with fc-native tools, composer actions, clients in service of fulfilling the purpose of the channel
explore partnerships and collaborations with adjacent channels and artists
helping newcomers understand Farcaster culture and the big "why we are here"
Source and Decentralisation
These tasks and deeds are an invitation for all of us and especially myself. I am the source of Farcasterland: I need this. I am scratching my own itch. Without me this channel wouldn't even exist. The source as defined by Peter Koenig is like the unmoved mover in Aristotle's texts, the one that starts an initiative.
I am the source and can't wait to let go of control. Lmao:-)
There is a part in me that wants to be naive and think the world revolves around me. Then there is another part that knows that I can live life to the fullest if am open to be wrong, willing to learn from others, prepared to change my tracks, detached to begin again, fearless to trust the process and humble to let go. This part is called antaur btw;-)
That's what I aim for, so that's what you can expect. You are invited to tell me if I am not practicing these.
What I expect from you is to be fully present and to take full responsibility for your experience if you join the Farcasterland channel.
Tell me what channel you're in and I tell you who you are!
Idk if this is for you but if you like being in some of these you might like Farcasterland, too.
higher higher-fm optimists coop vandelay july network-states foresight success believein cocreated valuesdao innerwork spirituality nervous therapy psychedelics now empathy regen gratitude
The OG artwork that inspired Farcasterland silhouette
What you see below is the original artwork: a photography, not photoshopped, just masked to hide the context of the scene.
To fund some early small scale operations for this experimental channel, I will make a tiny collection of one of one NFTs. I could make a single one that actually reveals the full image. But then you know and cannot stay in the unknowing which can be a delightful space. BTW: no one has ever correctly guess what the actual picture is about, but hundreds have shared their vivid interpretation.
On a morning walk in May 2024, the source energy came through me and told me that this image shall be the silhouette for Farcasterland. I got the channel name the second I got home. It took me six months to figure out what this channel wants to be. What do you want it to be?
First Farcasterland Frame
If your attention kept you this long, thank you and congratulations. Here is a little alpha for you: I will drop a fun frame on warpcast this week related to Farcaster and network states. It will pull your PFP and assign an imaginary citizen number to your mint. I make no promise but a low # number might be of some value further down the road...
Other antaur articles you mind find enjoy reading:
Welcome to Farcasterland
Dear reader,
Thanks for your attention. Today, I am renaming this blog.
from: Psychedelic Map For Change to: Farcasterland
Sunsetting: Psychedelic Map For Change
Sunrising: Farcasterland
5 reasons why
Most of my articles so far were about topics related to Farcaster
Farcasterland is one of the Channels I host so this feels more aligned
I still think we need a map for navigating our way from web2 to web3...
But, the old title is not focused enough and the word psychedelic is a stretch
I love the image above and you'll learn more about this in Q4...
Next Step
Inline and on topic with the new title, you can xpect the next article to cover and comment on this hot Farcaster topic:
