@subterranean_1@nogoodboypoints Nice guy for real. Only had very little interaction once and i can tell the kind of pepe he is. Gave me a dankpeperoni for simply being around. It’s not the card, it is the act.
This is Aquatic in his most vulnerable state. But I know that he is doing so much better now than when I met him. He's stronger, smarter, more focused, and extremely talented. I was happy to purchase this card simply to let him know I care.
See, I am quiet, shy, and introverted. But I took a leap of faith and traveled to New York in 2023 to see what all this Pepe business was about. I stood there in the gallery not knowing anyone, but having written a book that was on display there I felt like I kind of belonged. I went up to this guy who was also looking scared and alone and said "hi". It was Aquatic. He too had ventured out for the first time. He told me how he was so nervous that he could hardly talk. I told him I was exactly the same. It was a brief encounter, but one that I never forgot.
Fast forward to 2025 and I'm back in New York with my wife and daughter. I know everyone in the place. I'm still awkward AF, say the wrong things, and keep quiet most of the time. Then in comes Aquatic. He remembers my name. He talks to my family. I see him again in Brooklyn for @GuyNorcal and @nicedayJules's Biscuits event. The guy is making the rounds. Smiling, chatting. What an amazing transformation. My wife still talks about him and how kind he was to them.
This is the Culture of Counterparty™️ and what has become my "frog family". Anything I can do to help an artist do their thing, I do it. 💚🐸
ORIGINAL RARE PEPES, FAKE RARES, DANK RARES, RARE COCOS, WOJAKS ETC ARE NOT FAZED BY THE ATTACKS BY KOREAN SCAMMERS POSING AS DEVS ON CHAINSAW AND OTHER PLATFORMS
XCP IS HISTORICALLY SAFU FROM SUCH ATTACKS CUZ ITS SO SLENDER AND LEAN
NOT TO SAY XCP DOESNT HAVE ITS FAULTS BUT SOMETIMES U GOTTA PUT SOME RESPEKT ON THE CHAIN THAT WRITES DIRECTLY INTO BITCOIN - AND STARTED IT ALL AND CONTINUES ON TODAY EVEN STRONGER THAN YESTERYEAR WITH MORE AND MORE MINTS EVERY YEAR AND THAT MANY ARE STILL SHOOK BY HOW WELL A CHAIN RUN BY IDIOTS AND PEOPLE DOING HOOD RATSHIT WITH THEIR FRIENDS WITH LITTLE OUTSIDE CAPITAL CAN PROSPER AS SUCH
Also - Truly sorry for yer loss
Always due yer due diligence and don’t listen to me
FEELSGOODMAN
🚀 Today marks 10 years of the #SATOSHICARD, one of the most iconic pieces in Spells of Genesis and Bitcoin NFT history! 🎉✨
We wanted this card to be truly legendary after all, Satoshi embodies the very spirit of the #Bitcoin blockchain. 🟧₿
Back then, there were no fancy marketplaces. We distributed SATOSHICARD using Swapbots, a creation by Tokenly. Imagine vending machines for tokens: you send crypto, and it dispenses digital assets, primitive, centralized, but revolutionary at the time.
Supply? Ultra-limited. We would drop 5 cards at $10, then 5 more at $20, and so on… Flash sales that escalated fast.
Every time a SATOSHICARD sale launched, chaos followed:
💥 Mempool flooded
💥 Transactions raced to confirm
💥 The hunt was real
I still remember when the price hit $50, huge for a digital collectible in 2015! Today, it’s a piece of history that paved the way for the NFT movement we see now.
We even managed to break Swapbots more than once… and jam the mempool back when Bitcoin was quiet compared to today.
The SATOSHICARD is part of blockchain’s living history.
#SoG #Counterparty #HistoricNFT
I wish @CounterpartyXCP had launched to the public in 2027/28 for the first time. Guess it's just a 'what if' now!"
Because WHAT THE ACTUAL FVCK!!!!!!!
What began as a seed of an idea years ago and unfolded over months of painting now results in this momentous moment.
Introducing for the first time: “The Citadel (v. Nardo), 2025 - my latest oil painting.
Heavily steeped in Bitcoin lore, The Citadel is the product of over six months of studio work. It is a meditation on wealth creation, memetics, and the shifting architecture of Bitcoin’s power projection.
Though entirely hand-painted, the work reads like a monumental Photoshop composition - layered with visual references to Hieronymus Bosch, Renaissance wealth hierarchy, and the deep aesthetics of 4chan and Reddit culture.
At its conceptual core lies a response to the now legendary 2013 “Bitcoin Time Traveler” post - a mythic artifact of Bitcoin folklore that continues to inform its symbolic language and speculative imagination. Part prophecy, part satire, part warning.
The Citadel will be exclusively on view at the @theBitcoinconf in Las Vegas and available for acquisition via auction through @scarcedotcity.
More details and personal reflections to follow in the coming days. Check additional images for scale 👇
Just sent out a new PENCILMOVIE subasset to the collection holders (main asset precisely). This one is very simple and like a mind reminder.
Episode 8 BUY PEPEs and FAST CARs.
More subasset mints to come and much more to experience. THE BillionMindProjct💀
At NFTLA I was asked what is special or different about fake rares @FAKERARES_XCP
I explained that firstly, we are the longest running blerkchain artist led directory in existence
We have zero treasury and make no money doing the collection - it’s an act of love and promotion of memes
All the cards are owned by the artist and they distribute them as they see fit
And many of the cards and the best of fake rares ppl don’t just sell their memes, they do performative acts , they give them away, etc
What’s that mean - @Carsonated is a perfect example - he’s never sold a fake rare and makes u fly to Wyoming or burn Ryder ripps art to get them etc
This is the Xcp way - rare Pepes, bitcorns started this and we just think it’s the cool and organic way.. by the way bitcorns deserves so much more retro active love by propping up the Xcp and meme art land in the graveyard of 2018/19 (some great shit in the collection)
there’s many ways to distribute cards and the act of art sales is mostly generic here in this space
Sure some ppl use Pepe pawn shop, some use horizon, some use dispensers, some use scarce city to sell cards etc
The point is it’s open to do whatever u want
But Xcp is all about burning cards too since Xcp was created as the most fair ico ever by burning 2000+ bitcoin to earn Xcp back in 2014
Xcp is a bitcoin protocol and not a layer 2
It’s a layer 1.5
I’m rambling and prolly speaking to like 59 ppl here cuz most ppl are retardio and think some fuckboi influencer with 300k followers is the meme lord - but I really think we are on some shit and I’m smelling my Pepe farts rn
Also funny- fake Rares was open to be a meme directory - but everyone except like 2 ppl submitted Pepes so it’s tuned more into a Pepe directory lol but a few have made it thru that aren’t Pepe but may that’s what Pepe is just a spirit idk
Everything is fake
If you’re in Ordinals and you never made an asset on counterparty, you’re basically 69% (conservatively) more likely to be the worst kind of person to have in crypto.