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The Forgotten Bitcoin Comics

Original series · 2026

The Trenches

In 2011 people drew GPU rigs melting and Mt.Gox going dark. Fifteen years later the jokes are about bonding curves and dev wallets. This is our own comic about the pump.fun trenches as they are right now, drawn so that someone in 2041 can find it.

The plan: a new episode on a steady schedule, every one dated and archived here the moment it's finished, plus strips built from stories readers send in.

  • Bonding curves and the last buyer in
  • Dev wallets, bundles and the 3 a.m. rug
  • KOL calls, copy-traders and the timeline
  • The one who held

The cast

Anon
Our guy. Hoodie, energy drinks, perfect timing in the wrong direction. Buys every top so you don’t have to.
Rico
One casual post moves a crowd. Always early, always relaxed, never the one left holding anything.
Juno
Twelve monitors, zero panic. Takes initials out, sleeps never, answers DMs in four words.

Fiction. Anon, Rico and Juno are made-up characters; any resemblance to real traders is coincidental. They are not affiliated with this site, did not write or approve these strips, and nothing here is a real quote, a real trade or financial advice.

  1. No. 003 Dev Is Cooking

    1. Four excited friends in hoodies crowded around a laptop on a couch, pointing at the screen.Panel 1 of 4.

      Hour 1.

      Dev is cooking.

      Dev is SO cooking.

    2. The same friends slumped on the couch hours later, covered in cobwebs, one still staring at the laptop.Panel 2 of 4.

      Hour 6.

      Anon...dev is still cooking. Right?

    3. An empty kitchen, a cold pot on a switched-off stove, an abandoned chef hat and the back door open to the night.Panel 3 of 4.

      Hour 9. The kitchen.

      Dev wallet: 0 tokens. Stove: off.

    4. At a diner counter at sunrise, Rico shows Anon a phone while Juno sips coffee; Anon sighs and reaches for his own phone.Panel 4 of 4.

      Sunrise.

      RicoNew one just launched.

      Junogm.

      Anon...okay. One more.

    Every chat says it. Nobody has ever seen the kitchen.

  2. No. 002 Juno Doesn't Sleep

    1. A calm trader with a short bob, round glasses and a black hoodie sipping coffee in front of a wall of twelve glowing chart monitors.Panel 1 of 4.

      Meanwhile, Juno.

      JunoTook my initial out at 3x. The rest is a free ride.

    2. Anon lying in bed typing hopefully on a glowing phone held above his face.Panel 2 of 4.

      A DM, 4:12 a.m.

      Anonbro how do u know when to sell

      Juno, replyingwhen you can.

    3. Anon standing on his bed with a fist raised, holding a phone with a green chart, grinning.Panel 3 of 4.

      Anon chooses violence.

      AnonNah. I'm holding for a 10x. Diamond hands.

    4. Anon slumped on his bedroom floor staring at a red crashing chart, his soul drifting out of his mouth.Panel 4 of 4.

      Four minutes later.

      Anon...I'll sell at break-even.

    The difference between a trader and a holder is about four minutes.

  3. No. 001 The Call

    1. A scruffy guy in a grey hoodie hunched over a laptop full of tiny charts in a messy bedroom at night.Panel 1 of 4.

      3:07 a.m. Somewhere in the trenches.

      AnonForty new coins this minute. One of them is THE one.

    2. A relaxed trader with curly hair, a black tee and headphones tapping his phone in a gaming chair.Panel 2 of 4.

      Across town, Rico picks up his phone.

      Ricook this one's kinda cute

    3. A frantic crowd smashing buy buttons on phones and keyboards under a giant Solana logo while a teal chart rockets upward.Panel 3 of 4.

      Eleven seconds later.

      BUY BUY BUY

      Anonis 49% slippage normal??

    4. Anon sits alone on the peak of a candlestick chart clutching a Solana money bag as the line plunges behind him.Panel 4 of 4.

      Entry: the top. Also the exit, for everyone else.

      AnonHe said it was cute. I said it was my retirement.

    Forty coins launch a minute. One post decides which one everybody buys, and the last one in is always the same guy.