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We research Bitcoin’s origins, the cypherpunks and extropians, lost media, retro computing, gaming, and the history behind today’s internet.

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The nodeB59 Vault is now open 🔐 It's the home for the art and metadata of every nodeB59 NFT collection. The first collection is The Cipher Set from Nym Arena, with both pieces minted on Solana Devnet. nodeb59.com/vault
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Update on the Second Name demo: it's later than planned because I'm finishing the security work first. The two demo collectibles are already minted on Devnet. More soon.
Quick update from the Arena 🏛️ We planned to drop the demo last week. We held it back to tighten the privacy and security side first, because that's the whole point. It's close. Meet The Cipher Set: our first Devnet demo collectibles. Coming soon.
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This is horrible! I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this!!🤬 @google you need to fix your shit.
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We're getting close to launching the Nym Arena beta. We've been working on the first game, The Unanswered Objection, along with Second Name, which explores optional credentials without compromising player privacy. The idea behind Nym Arena is simple: games should be able to remember what happened without needing to know who played. We're nearly ready for testing, and I'll be sharing the link this weekend. teapawt.org/modulo59/status/211144…
Nym Arena is coming together. The Unanswered Objection is our first featured game. Final integrations are being done and beta testing is about to begin. modulo59.com/second-name Stay tuned. We're getting close.
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Replying to @Pr_Atomic_59
Thanks, Matt! This is a labor of love and there are many people (yourself included) who have been working towards this vault so soon we'll add pages for the different researchers and their work! We'll also add a way to send documents directly to the vault.
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projectb59.com just got a new front door. You can now choose between the Timeline to Bitcoin and the new Gaming History archive, covering early games, Sierra, Atari, consoles, virtual worlds, digital economies, preservation, and playable history. The Sierra side also got a major rebuild, with new Vault records, source trails, and a much deeper Buckazoids section. A special thanks to @caboken and Roberta, and to @TheColossalCave and @SierraOnlineUni for helping keep so much Sierra history alive. And Ken, if you ever dig up anything cool from the old Sierra days that deserves a safe home, send it our way. We’d be very happy to preserve it in the Vault for you 😉
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I can't stop watching this.
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I am done being polite about this industry. Not disappointed. Done. I spent the last months pulling wallets apart instead of posting charts, and what sits in my database now is not a pile of unlucky trades. It is hundreds of thousands of connections between wallets, coins, launch tools and payment flows, and they draw the same picture every time: industrial draining. On Solana first, because that is where the machine runs fastest, but the same hands show up on other chains under other tickers. This is not degens getting rekt. This is organised crime with a Pumpfun profile and a leaderboard rank. You want to know what "KOL" means in 2026? Last week I followed 3 wallets off a copy trading leaderboard. Their money does not come from calls. It comes from wallets that create coins by the hundred and by the thousand. One of those feeder wallets has 4,578 coins to its name. In September alone 852 SOL net moved from the factories to the 3 "influencers". One coin was created, dumped 33 seconds later, and the money sat in the KOL wallet 2 minutes after that. Then I checked the big names. Leaderboard wallets with 103,000, 134,000 and 146,000 followers on Pumpfun that have personally created 1,759, 953 and 1,217 coins. One of them is at 6,464. Create, buy in the same transaction, sell everything 3 to 5 blocks later into whoever got there in that second. Same second, or the next one. Over and over. And these people get called traders. They get podcasts. They get "gm". And the platforms? Fee on the way in, fee on the way out, and they call it volume. So no, I am not writing you another post-mortem every time retail gets emptied. The post-mortem is always the same and it changes nothing, because the people who benefit are the same people who get the reach. Every "isolated incident" conveniently skips the question of who keeps getting paid, who keeps promoting, and why the exact same wallets are back in the game before the thread has finished loading. I will keep saying it, because this space forgets everything the moment there is a new bag to chase. Some of my posts will get fewer views for that. Fine. But anger alone is content, and content is exactly what they want from me. What I want is tools. You should be able to look at a wallet and see its 1,217 launches before you ape. You should see who funded the dev, which "KOL" he paid last week, and what you are about to sign, before the damage is done, not in my thread 2 days later. That is where MASTR goes now. The intelligence machine gets wired into my apps and my sites, so the research lives where you trade instead of dying in a timeline. The people who support this work get that intelligence first. That is the only alpha I care about: knowing what is happening before someone else's exit becomes your loss. And I will say the uncomfortable part out loud: I cannot run this for free forever. Data, infrastructure, development, investigation, it all costs real money, even when the finished tool makes it look effortless. I refuse to pay for it by renting my name to whichever project needs a clean reputation this week. I also refuse to pretend I can subsidise everyone out of my own pocket while the drainers cash out your SOL and climb the next leaderboard with it. If I survive in this industry, it will be because I built something useful enough that people choose to back it, and stayed angry enough to keep pointing at the machine it runs inside. Receipts are coming. Every transaction linked. Check me.
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Replying to @MastrXYZ
We appreciate you, take some time for yourself. We'll be here 🧡
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Replying to @zerohustletunez
Soon! We have two separate spaces planned😎 More about that soon!
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We are constantly finding new clues and pieces of gaming history. Never ending Rabbit hole!
Sierra On-Line emailed the cypherpunks list in August 1995. Not theory. Archive is the receipt. Sierra On-Line in Oakhurst, CA was already talking to the same list Hal Finney lived in. Receipts > lore. ₿🚀59 mailing-list-archive.cryptoa…
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Replying to @atoms_res
There's a lot of work to be done in this space. Heartbreaking.
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A good reminder how @Bitcoin is changing lives all over the world.
In 2013, Bitcoin wasn’t an investment story for me. It was a way to pay Afghan women who had little or no access to banks and to give them greater control over the money they earned. I wrote about that experience for @WSJ, and why “permissionless” technology can matter most where traditional systems fail. Thank you @thetrocro for sharing.
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Half assed RIP on Pecks page 21 hours ago. Not when she passed, only now that people are asking questions. Says alot.
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