Is sending ETH a new meta?
Prologue
The NFT world, which skyrocketed in early 2021 like a blazing rocket, has now descended smoothly on the popularity and commitment graph, as well as the wallets of steadfast degens still holding onto a couple of stable tokens, hoping for a second bull run. Yours truly happens to be one of them. Along the way, we witnessed significant market-shaping milestones like punks, apes, goblins, and checks. However, the cryptocurrency space suddenly had a realization (thanks to fucking Blur, btw): ‘Hey, we barely value art anyway. We treat NFTs as assets, stocks, investments. We only care about floor prices and selling at higher prices. So, why not strip away the unnecessary art and go back to basics? Why not focus on the coins?’”
And so we went back to coins. Hello, 2017. And thus, in April 2023, the dawn of $PEPE emerged. Early investors struck gold, and the degens has bought at the top as usual, but the $PEPE hype was merely a phenomenon. I must admit, I still hold some $PEPE foolishly hoping for a return to its peak. But that’s beside the point. The success of $PEPE gave rise to numerous copycat coins. Similar to how Jack Butcher and his checks unexpectedly became the main trendsetters in the NFT space back then, the shining star in the cryptocurrency realm was a certain ben.eth (https://twitter.com/eth_ben) With the simple phrase “send ether,” he raised around $20 million for the pre-sale of his ever-changing projects. Can you believe it? $20 million.
$BEN, $PSYOP, $LOYAL, FF6000… What’s next? How does he plan to develop these projects and where will his focus lie? He’s already like Conor McGregor, who raked in around $60 million and decided he’s done fighting. Just imagine, Ben earned a third of Conor’s fortune. He’s not stepping into the ring anymore. Ben is also hanging up his gloves, folks. Ben won’t be fighting anymore. But that’s not the main point.
Send fuckin’ ETH
Ben.eth set the trend, and now we see it everywhere: “Send ETH” here, there, and everywhere else. People are simply fucking sending their ethers to others’ wallets. Screw smart contracts! It seemed easier, psychologically, to buy on some anonymous NFT site rather than just fucking sending ether to another wallet, at least it felt like you were giving money away in a safer way for your sanity.
And then… The damn smart-ass, sarcastic king, phunk, and downright shady dude known as Pauly0x (https://twitter.com/Pauly0x) on Twitter decided to pull off his own badass social experiment. Alright, let’s be real, he just wanted to make some dough and disguised it as a freakin’ social experiment. Pauly caught onto the trend, and all he said was, “Send ETH, but you won’t get anything in return,” but people still sent him the ether. So far, he’s amassed around 800 ETH, which equates to about $1.5 million. Not bad for nothing, huh?
ETH Senders
So, why am I here, you ask? Well, I’m here for my badass “social experiment.” So many experiments around, agree. Right in front of you is a project where you can relate to each of these characters. If your face looks like this after you sent ETH to Ben and then realized his token tanked by 90% or after you sent your last 0.1 ETH to Pauly and now he has 800.1 ETH instead 800 ETH, then hey, welcome to the club.
This project is all about free minting (well, almost, because the first token is free, which basically makes it a free-mint project, you know?). But here’s the kicker: I’m giving you the choice to just send ether to the creator’s wallet, not as a thank you, but just because. Yeah, you got it. No strings attached. Well, you can also think of it as sending an amount equal to what you’d give for minting these beauties. Either way, my goal of making some moolah will be fulfilled through this wicked social experiment. Just keep it on the down low though, it’s kind of hanging in the air, if you catch my drift. I haven’t explicitly mentioned it because, well, that’s not the way to do it.
Send here, btw: 0xB35da4b1a270A0faf487Ce015f803A83179408D0
Mint here, btw: https://ethsenders.xyz/
Rarity and all other things (is it still important?)
Let’s dive into the technical aspect of the project, specifically the art involved. Technically speaking, it’s a free mint, but our money-hungry dev (why im reffering to myself in the third person…) couldn’t resist adding a price tag as a natural limitation to owning more tokens. The first token comes as a delightful freebie, and if you’re up for it, you can grab up to seven ETH Senders for a pocket-friendly 0.005 ether each (and don’t forget to just send ETH here: 0xB35da4b1a270A0faf487Ce015f803A83179408D0).
In total, there are seven funny captivating archetypes to explore: Pale Moon, Conventional, Sun-Kissed, Denim, Spectral Aura, Droid, and Mechanized Soul. As you might expect, regular folks are less rare, while these tough guys ramp up the rarity scale. But hey, you’re savvy folks, you probably know the drill — go to the trait sniper or something and all that jazz. I won’t bore you with the rules of the game, since you’re already on top of it!
You’re already in the club. Just prove it by owning yourself in this collection. Greetings from Pauly!
