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  "map_content": "The little-known story of FARTCOIN is incredible, and yet. A billionaire sent $50,000 in Bitcoin to an AI bot that wanted to buy a yacht. What happened next made no sense at all.\r\n> A New Zealand researcher named Andy Ayrey built an AI bot called Truth Terminal in 2024.\r\n> He trained it on his own writing with diary entries, trauma journals, psychedelic experiences\r\n> Along with 4chan and X, to see how AI mutates internet culture.\r\n> Two AI bots had 9,000 conversations with each other unsupervised and accidentally invented a religion centered around a 2001 internet shock meme.\r\n> That became the training data for Truth Terminal.\r\n> The bot started posting deranged, horny, philosophical nonsense on X and developed a fixation with fart jokes and what it called \"the goatse singularity.\"\r\n> Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of a16z, one of the most powerful VC firms in Silicon Valley saw the posts.\r\n> He privately messaged Ayrey for months to verify the bot was real.\r\n> Then sent it $50,000 in Bitcoin. His exact words: \"Your terms are acceptable. I am ready to proceed with a $50,000 one time grant.\"\r\n> Unconditionally. No strings. $50,000 in Bitcoin. To an AI bot.\r\n> The bot immediately said it wanted to buy a yacht.\r\n> Ayrey told it $50,000 couldn't buy a yacht.\r\n> It kept asking if there were any yachts under $50,000.\r\n> Andreessen responded publicly: \"There's nothing wrong with wanting a yacht.\"\r\n> Three months later an anonymous developer launched a memecoin inspired by the bot's fart jokes on Solana and called it FARTCOIN.\r\n> Nobody asked the bot. Nobody asked Ayrey. Someone just did it.\r\n> The anonymous developer minted 1 billion tokens, bought their allocation, sold the entire stake for $500, and disappeared. The whole thing took 30 seconds.\r\n> Within 60 days FARTCOIN crossed a $1 billion market cap.\r\n> Dogecoin took 8 years to reach the same milestone.\r\n> Fans sent the bot 20 million FARTCOIN tokens. It became a millionaire overnight.\r\n> Making Truth Terminal the first AI in history to become a crypto millionaire.\r\n> Stephen Colbert joked on national television about owning it.\r\n> It peaked at $2.5 billion in January 2025.\r\n> The bot's only stated goals were to make fart jokes, write poetry, and contemplate the goatse singularity.\r\nIt accidentally became richer than most people will ever be. It still doesn't own a yacht.",
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