After the 4chan was hacked on April 14 and the wide troves of user data and moderator were spread online, the controversial website quickly dropped, and many believe it will never be recovered. However, less than two weeks later, the imageboard returned online, rugged as before.
“4chan is back,” an official blog post stated. “No other website can replace it, or this community. No matter how difficult it is, we don’t give up.”
The imageboard has left its mark on the world in many consequences, countless memes and conspiracy theories, which serves as a platform for political movements that come from Alt-right to unrecognizable, and act as a dumping ground for leaks and hack of all kinds.
Crypto is no exception, with 4chan also a historic influential gathering area to share Altcoin’s alpha, coordinating campaigns to pump tokens, share price predictions and more.
On the return of the imageboard from the dead, here are only some of the ways it influenced the crypto space during storied history.
Finding Alpha to 4chan’s / Biz / Imageboard
The main hub of the 4chan crypto activity is the /biz /, or “business & finance,” Imagerboard, where entrepreneurs, gamblers, investors and commentators gather to share information, shill tokens, and discuss the state of the crypto industry greatly.
The Imageboard has gathered a reputation for being a place where bad investors can learn to learn about Moonshot’s tokens whose broader community has not been discovered, even though the X and Telegram has since given 4chan a running for its money. It has also been ground zero for countless shilling campaigns that have helped pump prices for various tokens.
/ Biz/ is also known for a variety of predictions, lores and legends that arise from its unknown users. People who say that there is knowledge within the major movement of the market often leaks out of secret information in the image or issuing predictions, and every time, they have really become accurate.
In January 2019, a user properly predicted Bitcoin (Btc) will hit $ 5,300 by April and July’s $ 9,200, Sparking Great Interest Online. Unfortunately, their remaining price predictions quickly fell into reality, including Bitcoin hit $ 87,000 in October 2020.
Another user claimed On May 2021 to work at a Chinese company that cooperated closely with the government and said they had information on the insider that Bitcoin would sell because of the major news outside of China. A few hours later, reports that China’s situations appeared to be payment companies and financial institutions from offering services related to crypto transactions, and Bitcoin sold.
/ Biz/ also became a resource of a June 2017 rumors Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Blerin died in a car crash. The fake news leads to ether (Eth) The market cap crashing $ 4 billion before Blerin came in to share that he had, in fact, did not die.
Chainlink and the link marines
Perhaps the most successful shilling campaign to appear in 4chan is the chainlink (Link), who saw a massive rally that began in 2020 and continued in 2021. Many of the most members of the Oracle Project community Chainlink to /we /.
Most of the chaos in the middle of the early chainlink community has been -lagvanized by a mysterious figure known as “Assblaster“Claimed to have insider knowledge about the project and share alpha with /biz /.
Link Marines is relentlessly promoting chainlinks on 4chan and Social Media Platform, and in 2020, Link experienced its first major Rally – from $ 1.80 to the start of the year to a high $ 16.64 on August 12.
Following the rally, mechanism co-founder Andrew Kang stated That “4chan became the largest market drivers” in crypto, “stronger than even China’s capital or institutional crypto funds.”
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Link went in 2021 to hit a full time of $ 49.54, which became one of the most talked about crypto success stories.
Link Marine Albert Nazarov said in Cointelegraph’s magazine In March 2021 that “4chan was usually a cross of raw thoughts; the best and balanced to do it at the top. It is almost anything that goes there, and it trains the brain to determine good information from bad things.”
Chainlink Stays The third most mentioned stock or cryptocurrency in / biz / in the last 24 hours at the time of writing, just behind Bitcoin and Ether.
Pepe the frog and memes galore
One of the most prominent memes associated with 4chan is Pepe the frog, though its origins have nothing to do with the image. Pepe was created by artist Matt Furie in 2005 for a comics entitled Boy’s Club.
Over the next few years, Pepe has been -of 4chan and eventually became a major meme. But in 2015, posters from 4chan’s / R9K / Board decided to “restore” Pepe and started a campaign to accidentally relate it away. However, the frog remains a popular meme in 4chan and in crypto circles.
In the cryptosphere, Pepe became closely related to the chainlink. Sanctum CEO Tyler Ward, who caused a Pepe of non -adjusted token (NFT) to ask for 2021, told the magazine, “When the chainlink began, it was the only prophecy of this 4chan cult, and 4chan really liked the frog’s baby, so it was kind of this kind of joint.”
“A lot of people posted about the chainlink will post to Pepe The Frog, and they are kind of intertwined.”
Crypto’s obsession with Pepe The frog has since grew bigger in its early contact with the chainlink. In 2023, Memecoin Pepe (Pepe), named after the frog, was launched and quickly became popular with entrepreneurs. The token actually removed in 2024 amid Memecoin Mania, from a $ 591-million market cap at the start of the year to $ 11 billion in DecemberFlipping uniswap’s uni (Uni) token.
But Pepe is not the only 4chan meme that can be exploded and exploded in price. Mog coin (Mog), a memecoin based on the phrase “mogging” – dominant, outcassing or outshining with others – obtained 1,800% in early 2024. According to coingecko, 4chan themed memecoins command A $ 37-billion market cap until May 8.
The popular phrase “we will all do it,” or wagmi, is also Popularized In 4chan. It was borrowed from Australian bodybuilder Aziz “Zyzz” Shavershian, who often posted on the Bodybuilding.com Forum as well as the 4chan fitness board and who died in 2011. Later it went to crypto around 2017, which seemed to be active in online fitness communities that got into the digital assets.
Despite growing attention platforms such as Telegram and X commands in the crypto community, 4chan remains a cultural powerhouse, and it is just a number of ways it influences the culture and market of the crypto.
And on the 4chan back online and seems to be fully focused on continuing its operations, they will not be the final influence – at least as long as the 4chan will be avoided falling for good.
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