What is the founder of the Black Cat token MMSS thinking about "BTC ecology"

Original | Odaily

Author | Aurantium aurantium

After a community strife at the end of '22, the once-hot black cat Mimic Shhans began to fall in price and the heat fell silent. With the prosperity of the BTC ecosystem, the community has also had suggestions for recovery actions such as combining with cats (BRC-20) and issuing a BTC NFT version of Mimic Shhans.

Then, on November 19th, SHHAN announced the deployment of the related token MMSS, which was “made for fun”.

Can the total number of ultra-high inscriptions be completed?

PERHAPS HE DIDN’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE BRC-20, SHHAN SET THE NUMBER OF EACH INSCRIPTION TO 20 PIECES/SHEET, AND SOME USERS REPORTED THAT THE NUMBER WAS TOO MUCH, SHHAN REPLIED: “SORRY ABOUT THIS, BUT CAN YOU CHANGE IT NOW?” If not, then there is no way. ”

(Note: The original Mimic Shhans were also uploaded by SHHAN one by one, rather than being set up in bulk through the program.) ）

With a total of 21 million and 20 pieces per sheet, it would take 1.05 million engravings to be minted, and at the time of SHHAN’s release, the BTC network costs were high, costing about $8-9 per sheet, and nearly $10 million to complete the engraving. At that time, in addition to SATS, only RATS on the market had completed the total number of high inscriptions in the millions. This is a great test of the community’s consensus and enthusiasm for MMSS.

Triggers small-scale out-of-circle entry

After SHHAN announced the deployment of MMSS, some members of the Mimic Shhans community also began to learn how to inscribe the BRC-20 without prior exposure to the field.

After 5 hours of deployment, the progress was 10%, and the inscribed cost was nearly $1 million due to the high BTC network charges that day. SHHAN also posted a support map for Mimic Shhans and Rudolph (another sub-series of Black Cat).

The full inscription was finally completed at 5 a.m. on Nov. 24 at a total cost of about $6 million (a decrease in network costs compared to when it was deployed).

There is a deployer, but there is no “project party”

Although the token is deployed by SHHANS, and the name and original image are also from Mimic Shhans, SHHANS has repeatedly stated that he does not own much MMSS, and hopes that the decentralized community will operate MMSS, and has no intention of operating it himself. This may be due to the fact that SHHAN only wants to focus on Mimic Shhans’ NFT collection, or because of last year’s Black Cat community operational and financial disputes.

Odaily confirmed to SHHAN himself that “there will be a plan for Mimic Shhans to collaborate with MMSS”, SHHAN said: "The development of MMSS will be completely driven by the decentralized community, and I will participate as a part of the community. “

In conclusion, although MMSS has a clear deployer, it has achieved “de-projectization”, and the development strategy will be determined by the community.

Develop around the image of a black cat

The current popular BRC-20 tokens are mainly pure MEME and application tokens, the former includes rats, piin, luke, etc., and the latter has TURT, roup, etc. Previously, in the heyday of rats, an overwhelming number of rat concept pictures could be seen on social platforms, and MMSS also planned to use the image concept of black cats as the basis of its operation, but it was more inclined to develop towards the combination of artistic creativity and real people.

It is reported that the follow-up development plan of MMSS includes four modules: the creator platform around the main body of the black cat, the IP spokesperson of the black cat and the image communicator, application development and ecological education.

The concept of animals has endured in the Web3 world for a long time, such as DOGE, BONK (from Cheems), PEPE, etc., and whether MMSS can achieve long-term development through IP manufacturing remains to be strengthened.