#5 Diggy's ORE Journey: $11 Buy, $600 Pump & Leaving His Ledger at home

Ore Insiders Chat with Diggy — an Australian miner who discovered ORE through the Solana NFT community and Monkey DAO. Brian hosts as Diggy shares his crypto journey from Cardano NFTs to Solana, buying ORE at $11, and why he sees it as the long-term store of value on Solana. They cover mining strategies, the churn debate, security vs. PerpDexes, why ORE doesn't need KOLs or VCs, and what El Dorado and V4 could mean for the ecosystem.

🎙️ Host: Brian

🎤 Guest: Diggy

📍 Ore Insiders Chat

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0:00 Introduction

0:59 Diggy's crypto journey: Cardano NFTs to Solana

2:19 Discovering ORE through Monkey DAO & SMB

4:36 Buying ORE at $11 & the $700 pump vacation

5:26 Explaining ORE to newcomers

7:21 ORE as many things to many people

8:37 Store of value narrative & long-term thesis

9:24 The ORE Foundation & future growth

11:04 ORE as a slot machine everybody owns

14:10 Community education & onboarding tools

17:30 Solana vs. Ethereum: why ORE stays on Solana

20:00 Liquidity, staking & DeFi strategies

21:36 Looping & borrowing on OmniPair

23:12 The churn debate: renters & short-term miners

25:05 No VCs, fair distribution & organic growth

30:00 Security, attack surface & the Drift exploit

35:22 No KOLs — why that's bullish

37:39 Binance, exchanges & buying on the open market

39:38 Solana's maturation: from NFTs to memes to store of value

42:24 Market conditions & boring is bullish

43:03 The dangerous game of telling your wife about crypto

47:10 Sophisticated investors & building the floor

52:12 V4 speculation & redefining mining

53:10 Copycats fail — you can't fork the founder

56:42 Closing