All Hail The Turtle Dog

April 15, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

Meet Steamboat Mickey

Hello, I am Steamboat Mickey, who I am is not very important and in a few moments you will understand why.

I will give you a short background that I am an independent trader of cryptocurrency for a couple of years and have always been fascinated about the genesis of decentralized communities.

To be specific, to what degree are they seeded and guided by invisible hands or can they really grow from seed to something perpetual and 100% community owned in the same way we see BTC or DOGE with no central figure or organization maintaining.

Since crypto is all about tokens, honestly I think that decentralization is a matter of aligned interest and distribution to token holders. If mystery admin holds 30% of all tokens in so-called “locked wallet” then still mystery admin has 30% of responsibility for the community and drive. This is what we often see.

So when we design the tDOG experiment, our goal was very altruistic to give an opportunity for fair distribution and ownership from day 1. This means even if I MICKEY and my frens setup tDOG, we have no more potential for ownership that anybody else in the world. We will continue more about the ethos and vision, but first how it was done.

Rule #1 — I MICKEY spend 0 on the project.

Why 0> It is not because I am poorboi, I sell all my chainlink for $8 to pleb and have fun crypto money to play, it is because I want to know if something can start from zero from someone with zero.

Rule #2 — Since I spend 0 on the project, any $tDOG token I own has to be bought from the free market like anybody. So these are my token, not “team token” or “admin token” it is just “mickey token” same as if you bought it.

Rule #3 — Since “team” has no tokens and I am just some volunteer, we can’t pay anybody in $SOL or $tDOG for influence or exchange listing. Already in the time since $tDOG is known, I have had 28 different “influencer” contact me trying to get free token and 9 different “exchange representative.” to all of them I say the same thing.

“Thank you for your interest in $tDOG. We are an experiment in decentralized spontaneous community building. The team and admin are all volunteers here and have had to market buy the tokens the same as everybody else, so there is no bucket of tokens or funds to pay to anybody or anything. If you wish to help the project you certainly can and work with us to find a way to make your efforts the most valuable. We believe through the power of collective decentralization we can build something stronger than a centralized team ever could create. ALL HAIL THE X GAMES TURTLE DOG!

So that is where we are now, already the telegram community has 100+ members (some are bots someone added, but it’s ok) and hundreds of thousands of dollars in trading volume on pumpfun

Yay! that happened. Because of power of the tDOG, a very strong trading environment happened where some make big money, pleb get rekt, like any trading floor.

But what is more interesting is that caused a 100% distribution of all the supply so that all the rando anons on the internet now have vested interest in $tDOG. Even I got a little excited and bought a bag of $tDOG during the hype, but will hold and have no interest to sell anytime soon.

So this is where we are, price goes up people HAIL THE TURTLE DOG, price goes down people cry “ADMIN WHY DUMP”

It goes both ways, the point is that it is fun asset to trade and build community.

So People ask me the “roadmap” an plan for tDOG and give suggestions.

So what can you do to help the tDOG

1- If you are influencer, you can speak about tDOG on your platform

2- If you are listing person from exchange, you can list tDOG or invite us to participate in community listing contest. I can promise you that tDOG army will always win over pleb coin

3 — If you want to help setup core growth of the project, some development thing like yield farming or be more involved in marketing plan, run new channels then we can talk and see where is good fit.

4- Ideas to increase trust and transparency for the project

5- If you are darkweb shillboi, you can make chan and reddit and our tDOG Army will support. However I need to say a few things clearly

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1 — We don’t take investment — who would take the investment? I am just some volunteer also. If you want to contribute we can help you direct your resources (maybe some exchange wants fee, you are welcome to pay) or just go Market Buy tDOG to show support.

2 — We don’t have Admin tokens for anything and i will not give you my bag!

3- Our volunteer team is small, usually when people give suggestions, we ask them if they can do it, we will support, but usually best way to do things is to do yourself.

Is this a fair challenge? To see if we can build a 100% decentralized and autonomous perpetual community with no leader. I am not important, and one day I will be gone without notice. Take the tDOG and journey upwards frens.

- Steamboat Mickey

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