You cannot value community with math.
I've tried.
It involved imaginary numbers, half of π, & a quart of quarks, and it still didn't work.
So let's try to nail down something as ethereal as the gods with the power of prose.
What is the value of community?
A rallying cry...
Let's start with the importance of great leaders. 99% of those who follow me will know the above pfps on sight:
@SOLBigBrain (his pfp is so good, but of course @TheOnlyNom too)
@HGESOL
@F_Inn42
@PrimitiveMoney
WHY is this important?
Because great COMMUNITIES need great LEADERS.
I've pinged BigBrain on everything from charities to family tragedy. He always helps.
HGE gives us hope that Olympus didn't fall with SBF.
Primitive needed a website built and Finn just BUILT IT.
Nom was instrumental in @bonk_inu.
Our leaders SET THE TONE.
And in 2022 when SOL faced the orc hordes of exchange bankruptcies, FTX fraud, and crypto winter, these leaders didn't sheath their swords and turn tail.
They stood at the front, fists raised, and screamed back into the darkness.
They built AMMs, scratched for alpha, and rallied us all.
Shoulder to shoulder, the best leaders in our ecosystem stood with us.
And that gave us the strength to raise our own voices.
To keep winter from silencing us.
With SOL at $250 we were loud.
With SOL at $9 we were loud.
Call us lunatics, call us degens, call us mad.
Please do. It's all true.
But also call us strong. Call us fierce. Call us indomitable.
SOL never died under a hailstorm of shit because of our communities.
We will never die because of our communities.
When I was ready to throw in the towel @SolanaMBB gave me a second (and third, and fourth) wind.
When 1:1 art verged on an eerie quiet @RaviMonke went on a buying rampage, the likes of which may never be seen again.
In a bear market @OMNIcreative_ delivered the hottest pfp drop of the year.
In the cold of winter @SCUMSOL strapped in and gave us fire.
As storms tore off roofs @exchgART just kept building.
And when I needed help with a charity @TopoGigio_sol and @zen0m and @monoliff and @paranoidhill and @adam_ape_ and @degenpoet too many to tag stepped up to the plate.
Why?
Because we are a COMMUNITY.
How about an even more specific example?
After chatter in MBB's Wall Street Corner a member DM'd me about a relative of hers who buys self storage in NC, something I've always wanted to do.
Now I have a mentor and I'm on my way to fulfilling an IRL dream via a web3 community.
A community like @SolanaMBB or @solBOOGLE or @MonkeDAO doesn't pay dividends in the form of staking & tokens.
The dividends are from being an active member of a great community.
Those connections are the secret ingredients to a magic potion of your own design.
It's the type of magic that makes us invincible.
Magic that can't be squashed, FUDed, or bought.
We, Solana, as a community stood in front of cannon fire.
We took your bullets, your arrows, your venom.
But we stood TOGETHER.
AND WE'RE. STILL. HERE.