Hopefully Low Effort Punks can live forever on the blockchain without having to rely on any individual, team, or platform. To me, the long-term path is clear: fully onchain.
With roughly 800 Punks still never released , I’d love to see a burn-and-redeem process for the existing ones followed by releasing the remaining the old-fashioned way at 0.01 ETH each.
Just an idea. LEP, if you’re listening, give it a second thought. @LowEffortPunks
Man… we were talking about @cryptofish with @UnitedSaints and @dedcel3 in their Space. I favorited 1 Fish for maybe 5–10 minutes while I was moving some ETH around.
You already know what happened next. 😅🤣 Got front-run.
Still trying to figure out if it was pure bad luck… or a spy listening in the chat.
One of blockchain’s most important qualities is its permanence.
History cannot be rewritten on-chain. Records remain transparent, verifiable, and cumulative.
That is why I believe some of the most important blockchain-native works are not those that try to erase the past, but those that preserve it.
CryptoGoros is one such project.
Since July 1, 2021, artist @goroishihata has inscribed a self-portrait onto the blockchain every single day without interruption. As of today, that record spans 1,798 consecutive days.
These daily works function not only as self-portraits, but also as a record of the era in which they were created.
Across the collection are traces of NFT culture, crypto history, world events, AI, and GORO’s own life—from CryptoPunks, BAYC, Low Effort Punks, XCOPY, and Ordinals to Terra-LUNA, FTX, ChatGPT, the Russia–Ukraine war, CZ’s departure as CEO of Binance, the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and many other moments that would come to define an era.
Importantly, these references were not added retrospectively. They were created and recorded contemporaneously, day by day, as history unfolded.
Anyone can document history after the fact. What is rare is to preserve it in real time, without knowing which moments will later prove significant.
In an age where AI and digital media increasingly blur the line between documentation and fabrication, that function feels more important than ever.
What makes the project even more remarkable is that GORO has described it as the culmination of his life’s work as an oil painter.
CryptoGoros is designed to conclude at 2,000 works, with the final piece, DAY2000, expected on December 21, 2026.
GORO has repeatedly stated that CryptoGoros is a countdown that ends with both the completion of DAY2000 and the end of his own life.
I sincerely hope that never comes to pass.
Yet after 1,798 consecutive days of creation, it is difficult to dismiss those words as mere performance.
Whether one agrees with that sentiment or not, I cannot help but feel the presence of genuine conviction behind the work.
I believe CryptoGoros points toward a fundamentally different use of blockchain—one that extends far beyond ownership, speculation, or IP building.
It treats time itself as the medium.
And this is one example from its earliest days.
CryptoGoro Day 7 — Traits: LEP.