Azuki's Farce, Decentralization Questions, and mfers' Answers

Why do we, who have always emphasized decentralization so much, believe in such a centralized NFT project? Why do we, who hate centralization so much, tolerate such a centralized Azuki project.

One, a farce

Recently, Azuki, the only NFT project that is still strong in the current bear market, has launched a brand new Azuki Elementals. Based on the past consensus on the trust of the project party, the community snapped up 10 K NFTs at a price of 2 ETH/unit in a short period of time. The project party has already made a lot of money, but it has left a lot of abuse from users and a lot of feathers from the community.

From the high-profile publicity in Vegas to the huge gap in today's delivery, the highly repetitive, shoddy delivery quality and low-level technical mistakes directly caused Azuki, who was once aloof, to fall from the altar, making Azuki, the only one who is still struggling to support the NFT market in the bear market Declare "roll over".

So far, the once-popular blue-chip project A (Azuki) B (BAYC) C (CloneX) D (Doodles) in the NFT market has been wiped out. It is inevitable that people will lose their faith in NFT, and some people will even be left helpless and bitter. A passage: "I was happy in this great failure."

Second, a question

After experiencing this farce of Azuki, a question has been bothering me: **Why do we, who have always emphasized decentralization so much, trust such a centralized NFT project party so much? Why do we who hate centralization so much still tolerate a centralized Azuki project that says "Jason said". **

Although some people say that making money is the real thing, but this is certainly not the answer I am looking for in writing this article. Is the so-called decentralization just like exploring this DAO and that DAO before, and there is only one DAO left in the DAO, is it a truth?

3. A piece of news

I started trying to find the answer and couldn't help but fall into 45 minutes of meditation. That's until a piece of news from Coindesk hits the spotlight—Lowe's, the top 500 home improvement giant, released a brick-and-mortar garden banner this week featuring mfers characters. This means that a fully decentralized mfers NFT project has officially entered the top 500, CC0 Summer is coming soon?

mfers is an NFT project with its own meme. The founder Sartoshi put these works into the public domain through CC0 public declaration at the beginning of the project. After handing over the smart contract of the project to the community, he started playing "Disappeared" until he was abandoned by the community and cast aside as a "scumbag". In such a completely decentralized mfers open community with no roadmap, anyone can use these NFT characters to create any form of items, just as Sartoshi said at the beginning: "Sow the seeds and let them grow wildly." ".

Leaving aside how an interesting but boring product like the mfers garden flag has won five-star praise from all walks of life, the vibe embodied by the mfers community in the current bear market environment is beyond the reach of any project, and no one can obliterate it of.

It can be said that the seeds have been planted and mfers are thriving. As one garden flag user wrote: "Something was missing from our garden and we felt empty inside until we found the mfers 2023 CC0 Summer garden flag." It may have found the mfers seed.

Fourth, a tweet

At the same time, I also observed that Bankless tycoon DavidHoffman.eth (@TrustlessState) recently stated that he is calling an army of mfers. It is not known exactly what to do. Maybe he wants to form a group to learn how the Azuki project does things?

Or is it that every morning everyone knocks "gmfers" together in the tg group, and the years can be peaceful.

5. Some Contradictions

The huge contrast between Azuki and the mfers community makes me feel scared. Just imagine that the centralized FTX can evaporate the encrypted empire with a valuation of 32 billion U.S. dollars in 10 days, and the centralized project party Azuki can also overnight Web3 The top IP is overdrawn. Just like what Shi Zhong said in "A Brief History of Mfer: A Little Bastard Lives Inside of Us": "Greatness is immortal, ordinaryness is eternal."

There is no need to strive for greatness, Sartoshi said. Here we have no king, no ruler, and no clear roadmap. This beautiful concept of decentralization not only helps community members get rid of the dual identities of "loser" and "prisoner", but also provides a barbaric soil for the vigorous growth of the mfers community.

"We're all little bastards", this mfers self-deprecating slogan has always been vain, sincere and free, enough to reflect the so-called decentralization, post-ethnic identity, post-modernist proletariat, etc. Answered my previous question about decentralization. There is no greatness in a lifetime, only the ordinaryness in a lifetime.

6. Some summary

I watched a farce, raised a serious and ironic question, and then reflected on some great and ordinary oppositions from a piece of news and a tweet. It wasn't until I was hungry that I realized that I had maintained this classic posture of mfers with hands stretched forward and a smile on my face all afternoon in front of the computer. Then it's time to make some conclusions.

Although some people say: "I was happy in this great failure", but I just want to say: "It's a good thing I don't have money to buy Azuki."

Accept your mediocrity and assholes, and be a real, happy mfers is fine, mfers do what I want, be free.