Thought I’d do a quick refresher post on the history of $Buttcoin for anyone peeping us for the first time.
- Started in 2011 by myself, Barry Oners. Yes, I am original guy that’s devving this token.
- The first “memecoin” before memecoins, two years before Dogecoin was born.
- Buttcoin is a direct play on Bitcoin. I set up the Twitter, the Subreddit and our original site https://t.co/7QposD9r9h in May/June 2011
- Started as a satire of the early crypto days, a humorous take on the whole scene.
- As we shone the spotlight we had a lot of early interactions with many in the crypto space like Vitalik, cobie and others who embraced us.
- Our blog also did some investigative articles on shady players back in the day which led to us being secretly purchased by a company called Butterfly Labs.
- BFL was shut down by the FTC who seized all their assets, including the original Buttcoin website. Our name is in a federal database!
- We relaunched the blog on a new site, https://t.co/y4JDfUQvX9 and got mor