On Christmas morning the SoHo apartments were filled to the brim with toys, gadgets and ostentatious offerings. The streets were littered with boxes and carbon dioxide from Santa’s delivery elves. Brandon experienced severe panic and ran through the streets to find the gift he had mistakenly thrown out with the boxes. A few weeks ago he’d bid on the Louis Vuitton sneakers Kanye wore on his reconciliation tour with Taylor Swift, a spot on X’s first mission to Mars and the Adidas J.D. Vance wore the day he entered the presidential race. A left on Greene Street, a right on Broome. There, on a tiny castle made of boxes: Vance’s sneakers. The owner of the carton castle claimed “This was my Christmas miracle," to which Brandon replied, “no, it is MINE." Brandon lifted his phone and said, “I will pay anything. Name the price.” 

While the king of the castle pondered, Brandon asked in a serious tone of voice:

“Do you prefer Bitcoin or ETH?”
“ETH, always, ETH, my son.”