HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY TO THE DOOMED BY @XCOPYART 🎂
On 21st October 2018 the first ever edition of The Doomed was minted on KnownOrigin for 0.075E ($15.36 on the day!).
The description included with The Doomed is just one sentence: “Tech won't save us.”
Minted as an edition of 100, it famously took 434 days to sell out, and has since become one of the most recognisable and storied works in digital art
Well known collector @CozomoMedici once called it "a piece of the bedrock of the cryptoart movement". It’s also one of its most valuable editions, with the most recent 3 sales averaging over 40E each
The Doomed is owned by many of the most prominent collectors in the space including @sqda@RaoulGMI@thedoomedxyz@Jediwolf@punk4940@punk8164@l1qu1d_@TokenAngels@Punk8868@CryptoTaxGuyETH@VonMises14@maxand98@Scott_Steger
...and has been held from mint by many prominent artists including @artplusbrad@Hackatao@theYRDGZ and has inspired derivatives by other artists including an epic recent drop by @0x8BitArt
It was also the inspiration for the dedicated XCOPY DAO aka The Doomed DAO (where almost 200 collectors co-own The Doomed)
Fun fact: edition #1 of The Doomed contains an error in the name of the artist - "Divo_Tvurce" instead of XCOPY like the other 99 editions. It is speculated that either KO made an error or that XCOPY was minting under a pseudonym and then changed his mind after the first mint was sold. Maybe XCOPY can finally tell us?
Fun fact #2: only 7 editions of The Doomed were minted in 2018, making these extra collectible and almost impossible to find!
The OG Doomed was followed by a number of colour variants including the iconic mono 1/1 on SuperRare (bought for $74 and still held by @MLOdotArt), and three more KO mints including the ultra rare x/6 Green & Black Doomed, x/10 Red Doomed and x/15 Red & Black Doomed
Art historian and XCOPY patron @maxand98 wrote a marvellous article on the evolution of The Doomed from 2013 in XCOPY's Tumblr blog, its essential reading for all collectors: https://t.co/5pfzQLEKRi
Editions #1, #2, #24 and #36 of The Doomed are proudly in the Pella Collection along with every KO variant💀💀
A true NFT collector may be one of the craziest types of people (for now at least). We are buying NFTs, sometimes for $10s of thousands of dollars, in a market that is so bad and most of the time only goes down. That is true conviction plus maybe some craziness, but I hope us collectors are eventually right in the long run.
Auction closed! 🎉🍾
Congratulations to @razin_hel on the winning bid after a spirited morning of bidding! 🥂
A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who took part and showed their support. 💙🫂
@osseneth Hey, noticed you’ve been picking up a lot of NFTs lately 👀 I’m an NFT broker and have helped facilitate $15M+ in deals across collections like CryptoPunks, Fidenza and RarePepe. If you’re ever looking for anything in particular or want help sourcing pieces, happy to help 🤝