The little-known story of FARTCOIN is incredible, and yet. …

The little-known story of FARTCOIN is incredible, and yet. A billionaire sent $50,000 in Bitcoin to an AI bot that wanted to buy a yacht. What happened next made no sense at all.
> A New Zealand researcher named Andy Ayrey built an AI bot called Truth Terminal in 2024.
> He trained it on his own writing with diary entries, trauma journals, psychedelic experiences
> Along with 4chan and X, to see how AI mutates internet culture.
> Two AI bots had 9,000 conversations with each other unsupervised and accidentally invented a religion centered around a 2001 internet shock meme.
> That became the training data for Truth Terminal.
> The bot started posting deranged, horny, philosophical nonsense on X and developed a fixation with fart jokes and what it called "the goatse singularity."
> Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of a16z, one of the most powerful VC firms in Silicon Valley saw the posts.
> He privately messaged Ayrey for months to verify the bot was real.
> Then sent it $50,000 in Bitcoin. His exact words: "Your terms are acceptable. I am ready to proceed with a $50,000 one time grant."
> Unconditionally. No strings. $50,000 in Bitcoin. To an AI bot.
> The bot immediately said it wanted to buy a yacht.
> Ayrey told it $50,000 couldn't buy a yacht.
> It kept asking if there were any yachts under $50,000.
> Andreessen responded publicly: "There's nothing wrong with wanting a yacht."
> Three months later an anonymous developer launched a memecoin inspired by the bot's fart jokes on Solana and called it FARTCOIN.
> Nobody asked the bot. Nobody asked Ayrey. Someone just did it.
> The anonymous developer minted 1 billion tokens, bought their allocation, sold the entire stake for $500, and disappeared. The whole thing took 30 seconds.
> Within 60 days FARTCOIN crossed a $1 billion market cap.
> Dogecoin took 8 years to reach the same milestone.
> Fans sent the bot 20 million FARTCOIN tokens. It became a millionaire overnight.
> Making Truth Terminal the first AI in history to become a crypto millionaire.
> Stephen Colbert joked on national television about owning it.
> It peaked at $2.5 billion in January 2025.
> The bot's only stated goals were to make fart jokes, write poetry, and contemplate the goatse singularity.
It accidentally became richer than most people will ever be. It still doesn't own a yacht.