OUR LAST VIDEO

Dear DeSo Community
The past 679 days that we have spent on Deso have been a tremendous experience. We’ve met so many great people, learned so much about blockchain technology, and interacted with so many great projects, teams, and entrepreneurs. In addition to the amazing community, we were fortunate enough to receive Octane Funding to build NFTz.me with our amazing team.

Everyone from the DeSo core team to the OGs who only stuck around for a few weeks, made an impact on us in a mostly positive way. People would often ask us how we remained so consistent on DeSo despite our videos only receiving 75 - 200 views each. We were able to do so because we truly believed that DeSo could make a positive impact in the world. We believed that being consistent would reward us in the long run. After all, researching the daily happenings of Deso made us pseudo-experts on the technology and the community at hand. We believed that this would be of great benefit if Deso were to hit it big and go mainstream. At the same time, we thoroughly enjoyed doing what we were doing.

We spent several hours a day gathering news, writing our outlines, recording our videos and then editing them. Every morning from 6:30 AM - 10:15AM or so, we would be heads-down working on our videos because we felt it was important for the community to be able to quickly and easily get a recap of that day’s Deso news. The rest of the day would be spent working with our team at NFTz, talking to community members about improvements we needed to make, and providing our team with feedback on the development of our app. Our full-time job, you could say, has been DeSo’ing for the past 679 days, without any pay, or any expectations of pay, other than a few early creator coin buys, diamonds received and NFTs sales. It was well worth it and such a great learning experience.

Today is bittersweet though. We knew that this day might end up coming, but had hoped it would not. We had planned to make these videos for the next 10-20 years – really we did! However, with this latest bear market, things have changed. For the past 6-7 months we have been trying to raise NFTz funding but unfortunately were unable so far in this bearish climate.

While DeSo has been nothing but great to us in the two years or so we’ve been here, we do feel that there have been some bumps along the way as we sought additional funding for NFTz. We won’t get into the nitty-gritty details of it all, as the bear market has had its effects on a lot of things, but we do feel we were misled on several occasions. We feel the core team could do much more for developers and for the community who helped bring them to this point. We get it though; DeSo is hoping to find that next viral app that does for the blockchain what Bitclout did in the early days. It makes sense to some degree. If you just get one app to go super viral, all of the other apps on the chain suddenly become much less important. But what we don’t think that some on the core team realize is that community and reputation are a huge factor in future growth possibilities. If you get a bad reputation, that’s hard to overcome. We’ve seen it with the early opponents of Bitclout calling it a scam, and we believe that DeSo is very close to manifesting its own reputation of not caring enough about community or developers. We’ve seen some things first hand, as has just about every other developer on this blockchain.

The core team is made up of great people and tremendous talent, so by no means is this a personal attack on anyone at Deso. If anything, it’s just friendly advice based entirely on our opinions and experience, which may or may not even be an entirely accurate account of the greater whole.

For now, we will be pausing our daily videos, as we have been feeling much less motivated to spend so much time here. With this said, however, we don’t plan to leave DeSo or give up on it. We love this community! We also don’t plan to sell any of our DeSo that we have on the actual platform or our creator coins anytime in the next several months.

NFTz.me and services will remain as is for now, and we still have some updates planned such as ETH support, saved preferences, 3D and more. We have funds to continue to run as is for quite some time while we are still trying to raise funding from elsewhere. If that does not succeed we´ll do everything possible to make sure nftz.me will keep running. We'll keep you updated about everything as we always have done. CheckBitclout will close down soon. While being pushed hard in its direction, we don't see OpenFund as a viable route to raise the funds we need. Nor do we feel legally secure in using it as a fundraising platform at this point in time.

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