bro zachxbt is actually insane
this man went undercover as a money laundering client
spent $350K of his OWN money to gain the trust of a chinese launderer who was moving bybit hack funds for north korea
the guy started sharing everything. screenshots. wallet addresses. bridge transactions. in real time
zach was matching every single transaction on-chain as the guy was sending them
traced $12M+ across bitcoin, ethereum, solana, and tron
got tether to freeze $442K from the evidence alone
and the funniest part? in between discussing how to launder funds for north korea this guy was casually talking about playing mahjong and his weight loss plan 😭
bro thought he was talking to a client. he was talking to the most dangerous investigator in crypto
and zach funded this entire operation himself. $350K out of pocket. no guarantee he'd ever see it back
this is not the FBI. this is one guy with a laptop and a blockchain explorer
different breed
We asked Claude for a trading dashboard.
The Unusual Whales MCP did the rest: options flow, GEX, dark pool prints, built in three steps. Prebuilt examples to give you a head start.
And that’s why I’ve never been a huge fan of rigid trading plans being shared ahead of time...
Took the long above 2710s. Liquidations came in, with no passive support - the information changed, so I cut it.
Price trading back under 2720... flipped short.
You’re not going to get that from a signal service.
Have scenarios mapped out ahead of time, understand the why behind them, then remain fluid enough to respond to the information the market actually generates.... cut and reverse drills...
minted 11 credits by @jackbutcher
it cost me $80 mint price + $36 premium
already sold 3 near the top at 0.045 ETH each and 1 at 0.111 ETH (0.25 ETH rounded)
still holding 7 more in my wallet
should i sell and move on? or are these going to 0.1 ETH soon?
Be Jack Butcher
- born in England in 1988
- study graphic design
- move to New York
- spend a decade working in advertising
- realize agencies make more money by selling more of your time
- quit
- start Visualize Value in 2019
- post one simple visual idea every day
- turn black and white diagrams into an internet business
- pass $1M in sales by the end of 2020
- discover Ethereum
- January 2023 launch Checks
- price it at $8 because Twitter verification costs $8
- sell ~16,031 editions in 24 hours
- later let collectors burn and combine them into increasingly scarce pieces
- collection eventually does $250M+ in secondary trading volume
- five days later launch Opepen
~16,000 tokens
- holders don’t even know exactly what their final artwork will look like
- manually sign 35,262 pieces for Proof of Work
- make people compete inside a 500-second mint for Gas Wars
- create Self Checkout where visitors decide themselves how much the artwork is worth
- 2026 gets access to X Money
- asks people to send him $8
- every payment becomes an artwork called a Credit
- transaction ID literally becomes the seed that generates the art
~122,154 Credits created
- at $8 each $977,000 in gross payments
Spend years turning value, scarcity and markets into art
Then make the payment itself the artwork
Surely one of the most interesting artists the internet has produced.
HOW TO GRADE JACK BUTCHER’S CREDITS
What ~13K sales tell us + some admittedly dubious price guesses
If you’re just tuning in...
Jack launched an open edition through X Money
You sent $8, include an ETH address & the transaction ID became the seed for one Credit
The ID becomes four 8×8 CMYK grids, payment time selects the layers & literal 8s register visually
Final supply: 122,154 Credits
Each Credit is a complete artwork, but collectors can also burn 80 to assemble one Statement
Statement assembly opens eight days after launch with a maximum possible supply of 1,526
━━ WHERE THINGS STAND ━━
When I last checked, OpenSea had indexed:
▷ 60,865 of 122,154 Credits
▷ 12,621 sales
▷ 507Ξ volume
▷ 0.0318Ξ floor
Less than half has arrived, so this is very early price discovery
OpenSea ranks are basically useless while indexing continues
Grade the traits, not the current rank
━━ MARKET SIGNALS ━━
EIGHTS are the clearest rarity signal
▷ Five Eights: 1
▷ Four: 26
▷ Three: 398
▷ Two: 4,238
▷ One: 27,996
▷ None: 89,495
The first ~13K sales show a clean price ladder:
▷ Four Eights: 1.50Ξ median
▷ Three: 0.28Ξ
▷ Two: 0.062Ξ
▷ One: 0.0353Ξ
▷ None: 0.035Ξ
The Five-Eights one-of-one is unlisted with a 4.5 WETH offer
Three Four-Eights sales have cleared at 1Ξ, 1.5Ξ & 1.81Ξ
One means little financially so far
Two gets attention
Three gets serious
Four or Five is trophy territory
Outside EIGHTS, two traits show a repeatable premium:
▷ Extreme Weight: 0.068Ξ median, 1.02% supply
▷ Loose Print: 0.058Ξ median, 0.80% supply
Four Plates / full CMYK looks great, but its 0.037Ξ median is barely above the broad 0.0353Ξ market
━━ MY GRADING SCALE ━━
S+ | Five Eights
The one-of-one
S | Four Eights
Only 26 exist
A | Three Eights
398 exist with early sales reaching 0.8Ξ
B | Two Eights, Extreme or Loose
Stack two and I’d consider moving it up a grade
C | Drift, CMYK or a genuinely great composition
COMMON | Zero or One Eight with common Print and Weight traits
Still complete artworks & still raw material for Statements
Visual quality matters inside every tier
━━ SPECULATION ━━
This is unreliable, probably wrong & obviously the fun part
My short-term guess is the common floor gets messier before it gets cleaner
Another ~61,300 Credits must arrive, so commons could hit 0.02Ξ–0.03Ξ as large allocations land
Then Statement assembly becomes the counterforce
At a 0.0318Ξ floor, acquiring 80 Credits costs roughly 2.54Ξ (~$7,000) before gas
If collectors want Statements, cheap Credits become raw material
My admittedly optimistic ranges once distribution settles, assembly opens, and the quest to collect 80 grows:
▷ Commons: 0.05Ξ–0.10Ξ
▷ Two Eights: 0.10Ξ–0.20Ξ
▷ Extreme or Loose: 0.15Ξ–0.25Ξ
▷ Three Eights: 0.50Ξ–1Ξ+
▷ Four Eights: 2Ξ–5Ξ+
▷ Five Eights: wherever one determined collector decides it belongs
The Five already has a 4.5 WETH offer
Since everything revolves around 8, someone will surely try to manufacture an 8Ξ or 8.88Ξ headline
Statements are harder to guess
With an 80-Credit replacement cost near 2.54Ξ, a 3Ξ–5Ξ opening conversation feels obvious
But original participants could have acquired 80 Credits for only $640
Some will think in replacement cost, others in cost basis
That gap should create absolute chaos when assembly opens
So it honestly could be that I’m being way too conservative on such an iconic and historic collection
My bull case is the market splits into three lanes:
▷ Commons priced around Statement demand
▷ Rare Credits priced as standalone art
▷ Statements priced as the scarce assembled layer
The bear case is simple
Supply overwhelms buyers, too few burn 80 & prices drift toward the original $8 entry, but I doubt that happens
Way too early to know where it settles
But the first receipts are already telling us where collectors are looking
Good luck everyone, and have fun collecting these beauties
My DMs are filled with people asking me to send in $8 of Xmoney for them to @jackbutcher
I will send as many of these in for yall as you want
$25 per entry
Dm me if you want a spot!
Time is running out