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July 10, 2026

Summary

MoonKing joins The Block Runner to recount entering SHIB within its first few days, watching its community form during DeFi Summer, and navigating the extreme volatility that followed. He explains how conviction, narrative, liquidity, and community participation shaped his decisions as SHIB grew.

The conversation examines how meme coin culture has changed since 2020.

MoonKing contrasts the longer holding periods of earlier crypto cycles with today’s rapid trading environment, where launch platforms, copycat tokens, and fragmented liquidity can make sustained community growth more difficult.

The discussion then turns to NAT and its thesis surrounding Bitcoin’s long-term security budget. MoonKing explains why the underlying argument captured his attention, while the hosts discuss miner adoption, TAP Protocol, BIP-110, OP_RETURN, and how NAT could continue operating as Bitcoin evolves.

MoonKing also shares his approach to crypto marketing: lead with a clear, provocative claim, invite disagreement, and support the message with an understandable argument.

The group considers whether a more controversial framing could bring wider attention to NAT and force a substantive debate among Bitcoin supporters and critics.

MoonKing holds NAT and operates paid educational subscriptions and ProudProfits.com; the hosts are active NAT advocates and have interests connected to the project and its ecosystem. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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After a long Covid stretch where getting together was a challenge in many respects, the crew is back on the podcast to discuss the latest happenings within the metaverse and reality. Elon showcases a new NFT. We discuss why predicting the trajectory of bitcoin matters in the grand scheme of things. The metaverse has huge implications that aren't obvious yet to most people, we discuss why the metaverse will the place many decide to spend their time on. NFT's are all the craze right now, what's next for this vertical in the crypto space?

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Recent discussions involving Gary Vanyerchuck have been active recently and the main topic has been around the true implications of blockchain gaining mass adoption. The real implication is the total demise of fiat currency which is when powers shift. Every 100 years a different currency rises to become the world reserve currency and the dollar is a few years over due to collapse. Now that cryptocurrencies is a possible option, we could be seeing one of the biggest fundamental shifts ever experienced by humanity. A currency not controlled by any one government is unlike anything that's happened before.

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