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Picture emptiness. A blank page, nothing on it, nothing intended to be. No master plan, no reason, no expectation. Now imagine millions of individuals, all gazing at this nothing and, in some way, concluding—this is valuable. Crazy, huh?
can nothing-making-sense ever make sense?
Like a Zen koan, Notcoin isn't handing over answers. Instead, it does a tilt-of-the-head puzzle: can anything be worth more than something?
Bitcoin was Prometheus, stealing fire from the finance gods. Ethereum was Da Vinci,drawing plans for a digital renaissance
Notcoin? Notcoin is the punchline to a joke we never realized we were telling
It's the puzzle piece that was never supposed to fit. It not onlysatirizes the economy—it winks at the economy, nodding in agreement as if it had been along for the ride all along
Notcoin is not a revolution
It's not even an evolution
It's not even an evolution
It's a smirk sketched
in the margins of electronic finance
in the margins of electronic finance
Not a movement, not a product, not even an idea intended to be. It's the space between packets of information, the whitespace on a blockchain ledger, the silence that somehow resonates more forcefully than the sound
Gold was valuable because it was rare
Money because it could get
And these days? These days we read numbers
on an screen and accept them on trust because… because we do
on an screen and accept them on trust because… because we do
Because faith, held by sufficient people, is more powerful than any single doubt. Because reality is less about what is and more about what we all together think ought to be
Value is something
of what we think
of what we think
Value isn't something of what is
what if everything that we presume is "valuable" is simply a collective fever dream?
Notcoin graciously reminds us to consider
There is some amount for virtual gold in MMORPGs. Some trade the markets like a casino with heavy bets
What makes value actual? The effort that goes into it?
Its scarcity? Or just enough people agreeing it does?
Its scarcity? Or just enough people agreeing it does?
Formerly, people used to carry rabbit feet for luck, today they carry virtual tokens
If something is making people happy, —doesn't that make it real?
The line between a game and an economy has always been blurry
Where does the illusion begin and «real life» take over?
Meaning isn't made; it's built
Baudrillard famously teased that reality had been replaced by simulation. Now, Notcoin just doesn't care and says, "And?"
If money centuries ago lost its support in gold, if markets are driven on herd sentiment, if art gave up its canvas and stone to live in pixels and code, why not Notcoin next?
We look into the abyss and we see something there. We call it "value" and we believe, because millions of other people are looking as well
Let's go back to the beginning
Remember Schrödinger's box?
That little experiment where the cat is alive and dead at the same time until you observe it?
The only question now is—
Polina Reznichenko
Anastasia Reznichenko
Evgeny Kozhevnikov
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