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A Technical Audit of Seed Design in Early Ethereum NFTs
Every on-chain generative system has a core choice: where does the unpredictability come from, who can influence it, and when does it become knowable. These decisions subsequently determine the underlying economics (who captures rarity), ethics (fair access), and art (whether “chance” is real or curated).
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Good morning !
In 2017, before NFT was even a word, 25,440 pixel cats were waiting on the Moon 🌕 🐈. Legends !!!!
I made a banger 5-min film on @mooncatrescue with Claude Opus 5.5
"MoonCats is the first ethereum onchain generative art" . Grab pop-corn , put🔉 on and buy cats 👇
Do you want to be:
1. The guy telling your grandkids they aren't rich because AI stole all your 10K PFPs and 2026 memecoins or
2. The guy telling your grandkids they aren't rich because AI stole all your cool Etheria tiles and OG lemur coins.
Obviously the latter.
ethereum:0x30ae41d5f9988d359c733232c6c693c0e645c77e, Etheria, chill, and get hacked.
Currently in the finalizing stages of my very first serious NFT collection.
It is by design something that has never been done before and will hopefully breathe some fresh air into this space.
Francisco Goya
Yard with Lunatics, 1794
Goya painted this to face his worst fear: losing his mind.
A mysterious illness nearly killed Goya in 1792. It took his hearing for good. While recovering, he dropped his royal commissions and painted small works on scrap tin.
He pulled from old memories of a Zaragoza asylum, trapping semi-nude figures under a cold, heavy vault.
Sanity is fragile. Facing madness takes real courage.
Etheria Elevation Initializer from Oct. 16, 2015 has been updated.
It represents the location Ethereum was launched by core developers on July 30, 2015.
Waldemarstraße 37A, 10999 Berlin, in Kreuzberg (and its surrounding area)
Had a wallet drained? Your ittybits might still be there.
Native Ethscriptions can be overlooked by drainers, even when NFTs are gone.
We’ve launched a rescue experience for affected ittybits holders:
https://t.co/SFlN9383bb
A few things to know 🧵
HashToken $HTK is the Bitcoin of Ethereum.
If Bitcoin’s supply was 4,000.
And no one knew about it yet.
Deployed in 2016, this mineable coin is special. Cost to mine is already around the current price.
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