Crypto California

"Crypto-California"

On an old superhighway

Unwatched laissez-faire

Faint whispers of Napster

And some data to share

Now instead, some persistence

And some encryptions for spite

A payment system and a pseudonym

Nakomoto’s delight

With GPUs and hash codes,

The cypherpunks rebel

The regulators never guessed

The thirsts the Silk Road and Bitcoins could quell

Early miners would HODL

As the banks would inveigh

WikiLeaks accepted coins through Tor

And doxxed the CIA

Clandestine in Crypto-California

Gone without a trace (or a database)

Into cyberspace

Drug deals and cons here in Crypto-California

Ducking censorship (and some bloods and crips)

With some blockchain scripts!

She finds an altcoin, unlisted

He buys what Musk recommends (duh)

She’s got a wallet with new shitty coins

That he calls “trends”  

Some get rich off their meme stonks

Sweet wallstreetbets

Some are hedging inflation

And the national debt

So I signed up for Coinbase

“Now I can get mine!”

I said, “I haven’t seen returns like this since 1999”

And fiat treasury leaders just print and pray,  

So we’re left with an economic blight

And the games they play

Escape now to Crypto-California

We can all rebase (with a fork in place)

ICOs to chase

With Web3.0 out in Crypto-California

Be democratized (profits amortized)

And decentralized!

Smart contracts for dealing

Novel tokens to price

And I said, “we can all just trade peer-to-peer”

On our own device

So I read some disclaimers

And stored my private keys

Saw how fast Beeple art revives

And I bought some NFTs

Found DApps for some ESports, bought some

Eth2 I could store 

I signed up for a Metamask

And I played-to-earn some more

“Rejoice! It’s a new world

We’re all programmed to receive!”

You can cash out any time you like,

But you can never leave!

Written by: "Weird Ev" Coopersmith & AE Studio