After the April 14th invasion of 4chan and leaked a large number of user and host data online, the controversial website quickly dropped, and many people thought it would never recover. However, less than two weeks later, the image board returned to the Internet and resisted as always.
“4chan is back,” official blog post Announce. “There is no other website that can replace it or this community. No matter how difficult it is, we will not give up.”
Image boards have left their mark on the world in many relevant ways, a platform for countless memes and conspiracy theories, a platform for political movements ranging from Alt-Right to anonymous and serve as a dumping ground for all kinds of leaks and hacking.
Encryption is no exception, and 4Chan is also a historically influential gathering place where Altcoin Alpha can be shared, coordinating the pumping of tokens, sharing price predictions and more.
With the Dead’s Image Board, these are just a few ways it has influenced encrypted spaces in legendary history.
Find alpha on 4chan/biz/imageboard
The main hub of crypto activity on 4chan is its /biz/or “Business and Finance”, i.e. image boards, traders, gamblers, investors and commentators gather to share information, shilling tokens, and discuss the status of the entire cryptocurrency industry.
Imageboard is known for being a place where brave investors can learn Moonshot tokens, and while X and Telegram have provided 4chan’s money since then, the wider community has not yet discovered it. For countless shillings movements, this is also zero to raise prices for various token prices.
/biz/ is also known for its various prophecies, legends and legends that appear in its anonymous users. People who claim to have internal knowledge of major market changes will often leak so-called secret information or issue prophecies on the image board, and occasionally, they are actually accurate.
In January 2019, users correctly predicted Bitcoin (BTC) By April, it will reach $5,300 and by July, it will reach $9,200 Aroused great interest online. Unfortunately, their remaining price forecasts will soon be unrealistic, including by October 2020, Bitcoin will reach $87,000.
Another user claim In May 2021, working in a Chinese company that works closely with the government and said they have internal information that Bitcoin will be sold for major news in China. A few hours later, it was reported that China would ban payment companies and financial institutions from providing services related to crypto transactions, and Bitcoin sold.
/biz/ is also the source of June 2017 rumor That Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin died in a car accident. Fake news leads to Ether (eth) The market cap collapsed by $4 billion until Butling stepped in to share that he wasn’t actually dead.
Chain Links and Links Marine Corps
Perhaps the most successful shillings movement came from 4chan, which is Chainlink (Chainlink) (Related), this is a large-scale rally that began in 2020 and Continue until 2021. Many of the most stubborn community members of the Oracle Project, known as Link Marines, were first discovered Chain links In /us//.
Many of the excitement in the early chain link community were called “Assblaster”, they claim to have internal knowledge of the project and will share alpha on /biz/.
Link Marine ruthlessly facilitates chain links on 4chan and social media platforms, and by 2020, Link experienced its first major assembly – From $1.80 at the beginning of the year to $16.64 on August 12.
Follow the rally, Andrew Kang, co-founder of Mechanism Capital Announce The cryptocurrency’s “4chan has become the biggest market driver” and “is even stronger than China or institutional crypto fund capital.”
Related: Institutional Capital founder doubles Bitcoin position for $200 million
Link continued its all-time high of $49.54 in 2021, becoming one of the most watched crypto success stories of the year.
Link Marine Albert Nazarov Tell Cointelegraph Magazine March 2021, “4chan is basically a crucible of original ideas; the best and balanced ones are the highest. Almost everything is there, it trains the brain to steal good information from bad things.”
Chain links remains As of this writing, the third most mentioned stock or cryptocurrency in the past 24 hours is second only to Bitcoin and Ether.
pepe frog and meme
One of the most recognized memes related to 4chan is Pepe the Frog, although its origin has nothing to do with the image board. Pepe Boys Club.
In the next few years, Pepe was popularized by 4chan and eventually became a mainstream meme. But in 2015, the poster from the 4chan/R9K/board decided to “take back” Pepe and started a campaign that intentionally linked it to the far right. Still, the frog is a popular meme in the 4chan and Crypto circles.
In the encryption layer, PEPE is closely related to chain links. Sanctum CEO Tyler Ward, who sparked Pepe’s Toothless (NFT) craze in 2021, told the magazine: “When the chain starts to do well, it becomes this cult prophecy of 4chan, and 4chan does like pepe the frog the frog the frog, so it’s this merger.”
“Many people about Chainlink releases will be released with Pepe Frog, and they are kind of intertwined.”
Since then, Crypto’s obsession with frogs has significantly increased its early association with Chainlink. In 2023, Memecoin Pepe(Pepe) Named after the frog, it was launched and quickly became popular among traders. In Memecoin Mania, Token does take off in 2024, from its $591 million market cap early this year to $11 billion by Decemberflip UNISWAP’s UNI (Uni) token.
However, Pepe isn’t the only 4chan meme that explodes with symbolization and price. MOG coins (cat), which is a meme based on the word “imitation” – dominate, surpass or surpass others – get 1,800% in early 2024. Order As of May 8, the market value was US$37 billion.
The popular phrase “We will all do this” or Wagmi, too universal On 4chan. It was borrowed from Australian bodybuilder Aziz “Zyzz” Shavershian, who frequently posted on the Bodybuilding.com forum as well as on the fitness committee of 4Chan and died in 2011. Later, it entered Crypto around 2017, as it seemed to be an active user in the online fitness community and became a digital collectible.
Despite the increasing focus on platforms in crypto communities such as Telegram and X Command, 4Chan is still a cultural powerhouse, and these are just a few ways to influence crypto culture and markets.
And, as 4chan returns online and seems fully committed to continuing its operations, they won’t be its ultimate impact – at least as long as 4chan can avoid being knocked down forever.
