Why Cuzco’s Story Is So Powerful (and Why It Could Go Big)

If you’re thinking, “Okay, it’s a goat in some old code—big deal,” hear me out. This isn’t just some random meme coin. Cuzco is part of OpenAI’s history—one of the first playful, quirky moments tucked inside a company known for serious tech. And now he’s got this whole new life in crypto, sparking interest like no one expected.

How It All Began: A Goat, a Game, and Some Legendary Code

Imagine this: You’re browsing through OpenAI’s GitHub, and in a corner of their ancient Box2d-py repo, you find a line of code that just says:

w = Input(value="Cuzco the Goat", size=20)

Out of all the things he could’ve coded, Phil Hassey (@PhillHassey)—a game dev—chose to put his goat, Cuzco, right in the OpenAI repo. This isn’t some random placeholder text either. Cuzco was Phil’s real, one-horned (yeah, you read that right) pet goat, and he decided to immortalize him in OpenAI’s code while working on his game Galcon. The line that follows “Cuzco the Goat” reads “Marbles,” which is a playful reference to the gameplay in Galcon. This quirky bit of code isn’t just a random artifact—it’s now internet lore, hiding in plain sight in one of the biggest AI companies’ repositories. 

To verify that Phil Hassey is the creator of this Github repo you can visit this page in the github repo that states Phil Hasseys own name:

Cuzco Goes Crypto: The Rise of CUZCO Coin

Here’s where it gets juicy. Just one day ago (yep, on November 4, 2024), a Pump.fun user dropped the crypto coin called Cuzco the Goat with the ticker CUZCO. No hype, no socials, no fancy promo campaign. They just linked it back to OpenAI’s GitHub and launched it. And people went wild. Within hours, this coin shot to a nearly $1M market cap. Since then, there's a community forming on X/Twitter but there's no website yet (until now). The idea of this website is to also legitimize Cuzco and show you how great the narrative is.

How You Can Verify This Goat’s Legacy

For the skeptics (I see you), here’s how you can dive in yourself:

1. Find Cuzco in OpenAI’s GitHub:

   • Go to github.com/OpenAI

   • Search the repo for Box2d-py

   • Open the Examples folder, then pgu, then Gui, and click on input.py

2. Boom. There he is, staring back at you from one of the largest AI tech companies in the world.

(to verify the Phil Hassey name code go to form.py instead of input.py