DonPac

Over 10.68 $ZEC paid out to solana:7ypCq2CJ4fnbtS3z2B1W1UT2he5E3u7Md6Gy1ri7uGrQ Miner NFT holders across just 4 epochs. 194 miners remain, with only 101 currently earning rewards. And over $7,000 worth of $ANT burned through activations alone. Still early days, but these numbers are starting to add up. 🐜

I think somewhere along the way we’ve started confusing community with opportunity. There’s nothing wrong with chasing new opportunities, making money or supporting different projects. That’s part of why we’re all here. But I do wonder what happened to building something together beyond the excitement of the moment. We spent months getting to know people, supporting each other, sharing ideas and building communities around things we genuinely believed in. Yet the moment things get quiet, it’s almost as if none of that ever happened. The same projects we once couldn’t stop talking about, sharing and supporting suddenly become something we scroll straight past. And that’s the part I struggle to understand. Because if our support for one another only exists when there’s momentum or something to gain, then are we really building communities, or are we just participating in transactions, do you preach community and end it once you’ve sold you “community bag”? I don’t expect everyone to stay interested in the same things forever. But I do believe there’s a difference between moving forward and forgetting what helped get you there. The real strength of a community isn’t measured when everything is going well. It’s measured by what remains when the excitement fades.

If you don’t have a hedge on solana:7ypCq2CJ4fnbtS3z2B1W1UT2he5E3u7Md6Gy1ri7uGrQ if you don’t have a hedge on the colony, if you don’t have a hedge on the dev, then what are you even doing? We all talk about wanting to build communities and back real builders, yet we’ve got a dev who’s outworking half of CT’s bullposters combined. And if you’re a $ZEC maxi who believes in where ZEC is heading but you’re still not mining it through $ANT, what are you even doing? Everything people keep saying they want in a project is right in front of them. 🐜

Another reason to hold $ANT. You can now shield your ZEC directly through the ANT Miner website, moving it from Solana into shielded Zcash. And here’s the best part. Hold 100,000 $ANT and your shielding transaction fee is ZERO. No miner NFT required either. Mine ZEC, shield ZEC. All through the same ecosystem. theantminer.xyz⁠