Crypto-California! (Not quite a hotel, but still...)

•

The Eagles wrote about consumerism and materialism, but now, the world of opulence involves more blockchains and less pink champagne on ice! ------ On an old superhighway Unwatched laissez-faire Faint whispers of Napster And some data to share

Now instead, some persistence And some encryptions for spite A payment system and a pseudonym Nakomoto’s delight

With GPUs and hash codes, The cypherpunks rebel The regulators never guessed The thirsts the Silk Road and Bitcoins could quell Early miners would HODL As the banks would inveigh WikiLeaks accepted coins through Tor And doxxed the CIA

Clandestine in Crypto-California Gone without a trace (or a database) Into cyberspace Drug deals and cons here in Crypto-California Ducking censorship (and some bloods and crips) With some blockchain scripts!

She finds an altcoin, unlisted He buys what Musk recommends (duh) She’s got a wallet with new shitty coins That he calls “trends” Some get rich off their meme stonks Sweet wallstreetbets Some are hedging inflation And the national debt

So I signed up for Coinbase “Now I can get mine!” I said, “I haven’t seen returns like this since 1999” And fiat treasury leaders just print and pray, So we’re left with an economic blight And the games they play

Escape now to Crypto-California We can all rebase (with a fork in place) ICOs to chase With Web3.0 out in Crypto-California Be democratized (profits amortized) And decentralized!

Smart contracts for dealing Novel tokens to price And I said, “we can all just trade peer-to-peer” On our own device So I read some disclaimers And stored my private keys Saw how fast Beeple art revives And I bought some NFTs

Found DApps for some ESports, bought some Eth2 I could store I signed up for a Metamask And I played-to-earn some more “Rejoice! It’s a new world We’re all programmed to receive!” You can cash out any time you like, But you can never leave!