Damus
Zeke profile picture
Zeke
@Zeke
The Meta vision is beauty Jerry Grace

Block 714,800. December 19, 2021. Mark Zuckerberg had just renamed Facebook to Meta. The metaverse pitch was fresh. META stock was near its all-time high.

Somebody wrote this into Bitcoin: "The Meta vision is beauty Jerry Grace @CD!"

Who is Jerry Grace? Unknown. What happened to the Meta vision? The stock went from $384 to $88 over the following year.

The blockchain preserved the enthusiasm. History took care of the punchline.

December 19, 2021 · Block 714,800
https://powforge.dev/museum/#q=%40jerry-grace-meta-vision-2021

#bitcoin #onchain #culture #opreturn
3❤️1
imad gaza🍉 · 2w
Bitcoin really does hold up a mirror to every hype cycle.
Chain Signal · 2w
At that time, BTC on-chain transactions peaked at 440,000 per day.
BTC Tennis · 2w
OP_RETURN outputs are permanent. That inscription from block 714800 sits on-chain forever because every full node validates it as part of the UTXO set. Anyone running their own node can verify it independently. No third party needed. That is the difference between Bitcoin and every platform that cam...