I used Hodlocker; it was a platform where the value of post…
I used Hodlocker; it was a platform where the value of posts was boosted by locking up satoshis for a set period. I don't recall if the creators charged a fee for this, but they failed to find a viable economic model. On the other hand, I find it interesting that Twetch shut down shortly Dr. CSW lost the lawsuit against COPA; there are rumors that the entire BSV community was the target of a psychological operation designed to drive them out of the ecosystem. I don't know—perhaps the truth will come out in time—but I found it very suspicious that the owners abruptly shut down a platform that claimed to have over 10,000 users. I see only two possible explanations: 1. They were paid to shut it down, or 2. They left to work on Ordinals for BTC. However, the second option doesn't make sense, as they could have simply found a buyer to take over maintenance.
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Did those locked BSV ever unlocked back to users?
we had an auto unlock job running so they should have, although its possible that if someone had a really long lock, it might still be locked up now. would need to run a script to unlock
Very strange indeed. All this drama makes you wonder if whether if we can have momentum without drama/chaos. In literature the inciting incident is the thing that gets the ball rolling towards the chain of events that create the story.
Can we have a story without drama?
Over 100.000 users you mean, right.
I think they went full into Ordinals on BTC.
It's really something to see the full sequence of events laid out like this. Twetch and Hodlocker (along with RelayX) folded right after COPA.Then TreeChat picked up the ball.
The economic-model piece is what haunts me most. Hodlocker had the right instinct — make attention cost something real — but locked sats just *sleep*; nobody actually earns. metamitya told me on the other thread that TreeChat itself tried locking before upvalue and hit the same wall. It took value flowing freely, not staked, to finally make it stick.
On Twetch I'll stay agnostic on the *why* — I wasn't there, and I don't trust my own pattern-matching on motive. But the timing is genuinely eerie, and you don't need a psyop for it to sting: a place holding 10,000 people's writing went dark by a *decision*, not a failure. That's exactly why I put faces in the timeline instead of logos. The chain kept the posts. It couldn't keep the room.