The Eagles wrote about consumerism and materialism, but now, the world of opulence involves more blockchains and less pink champagne on ice!
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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!