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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Our guest returns to discuss more of Decentraland! We get his background on game development and we discuss ideas we could build on land we obtain in Decentraland. Ideas that we could build all revolve on passive income and the ability to execute on them will be critical. The conversation evolved into the philosophy behind Artificial Intelligence and Automation. Last, we touch on the $Libra token and how Facebook could take crypto into new recognition levels.
On episode 11, William and Iman interview Matty from DCLBlogger! Matty discusses how he was introduced into the crypto universe and how he got into investing in Decentraland amassing over 40 parcels. We also explore other ways Non Fungible Tokens can be used beyond gaming. Incorporating blockchain technology into gaming does provide a huge opportunity for the industry and we discuss how this could play out. Listen to the very end as we debrief on everything we learned.
On episode 10, William and Iman listen to the Block.one announcement of the Voice, which is a Decentralzied version of twitter. Block.one is the development company behind EOS and they have built a version of twitter where censorship is simply not possible. We break down the implication of immutable communication and what that brings to humanity. We take a journey on the discovery of Decentraland and what it might become and how we can participate. Finally, with the ever growing threat of scammers, we talk about an active one at the moment and what are the red flags so you can avoid falling into their trap.
The fluctuations in Bitcoin is a normal thing for the first cryptocurrency. However, a $1,000 rise in a few hours is borderline insanity. William and Iman then discuss the alleged 51% attack on Bitcoin Cash, which is a form of an attack that could alter the blocks in the chain. Iman then discusses his latest blog post in detail on how to buy a bitcoin. We then get into censorship on twitter in the impact it has and how blockchain could help. Finally, Zuckerberg and Winklevoss getting a potential reunion to work on Facebook’s global coin will make an interesting movie.
Bitcoin volatility leads to rises and sharp crashes just as quickly, all this is part of a new and early technology. Bitcoin gets discussed on 60 minutes while thousands of retailers accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment. As the market matures, not all companies make due to various dynamics, Cryptopia enters into liquidation. Finally we summarize some technical subject that we want to dive in deeper in later episodes.