piedpiper

hopeless, hopeful, magic beans and Jpegs

V1Punk, 100+ MoonCats, 2 Deafbeef, 1K+ GoodMinds, 20+ ArtBlocks, 35+ Trademark by JB ... many more

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In crypto, Staying in the game is more important than trying to score big. Stay in the game long enough and opportunities will come.

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@Aina_Ai2 You just forgot one thing.... the email ID is "[email protected]"

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@Carlos__Turcios An Informed racist is a better racist, mate. Read a book or something first.

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@lynk0x It's called "peace"

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@linderps Sorry, our jobs are on the line

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I'm claiming my AI agent "sierra_erc8004" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: claw-BKTT

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@yvtweets We don’t care my good ser

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@justintrimble The man should have stitches resembling recovering from a bullet wound

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@sadbagillions @PlayasianChris @Swan I second that

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@matthuang Permissionless tech can’t have face or execution risk or any specific interest groups ( it’s one and done). We are trying to protect us from us but you are introducing that distrust as a pillar and asking everyone to stand on it.

You never understood crypto based on this.

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@CryptoCurb Enough with your 2 second headline

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@blknoiz06 @0xKNL__ Life

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@voidcooks @Jok3rXBT You got to dumb down ux. Simple. Current ux is a mess

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They are neither ‘crypto’ nor ‘punk’.

Had to do it.

[path.eth 🛡️ @Cryptopathic]

Today I sold my V2 punk to purchase more V1s.

It's becoming clear that the V1/V2 punk argument rests solely on the latter group's ability to brand themselves as "real" through their social network.

If the story of the flawed V1 contract were to play out today, duplicating and then airdropping the new collection would be an unacceptable solution. This made all punks 1 of 2s, with V1 punks as the “first editions” of these assets. In all other collectible classes, the earlier editions of something are more sought after. This is also generally true of the scarcer misprint variants of assets - there are far fewer V1s still in circulation.

The solution was accepted at the time of the V1 exploit because there were minimal options with which to view onchain assets - what Larva Labs platformed was what everyone got to interact with. With the introduction of third party marketplaces and the V1 wrapping contract, this ceased to be the case. Very few people in the community back in the day had enough foresight to realise that all LL had done was sweep the originals under the rug.

The narrative that V2s are in some way superior is defended largely by the snobbish type of collector who judges art only by its price, and has an emotional attachment to the status that owning this asset gives them. They see attempts to discuss the onchain truth of the story as an attack on their gated social group and the sunk cost of their investment. This is ignorance of the provenance uniquely available through the blockchain, and an elitist rejection of another community as a way of preserving capital; they are neither ‘crypto’ nor ‘punk’.

Any newcomer to onchain collecting, being exposed to the publicly verifiable and immutable information available surrounding these collections, would judge V1s - at less than 10% the price of the V2s - as the more grounded choice.

There are a handful of common counterarguments. V1s are unable to use their original in-contract marketplace because of the exploit, but this experience has been abstracted into existence. The chains of ownership are different as they fork after the V2 airdrop, meaning they have different social networks, but V1s have a nascent community capturing the more historically minded. V1s do not receive the same IP rights as V2s, although onchain PfP IP has proven to be rarely utilized.

There are 20,000 punks. The V1 punks are the original cryptopunks that were claimed on June 9th, 2017. The later V2 punks have the backing of their creators and are more well known, benefitting disproportionately from this publicity. This is a fascinating case of art undergoing a literal schism - one collection to serve the will of the artist, and the other becoming inseparable from its foundations, the machine it was built to showcase. This machine will outlive us, and with it, the story of how a failure of imagination led to the burying of the truth of its icons.

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@voidcooks @runitbackghost @voidcooks, can we pause adding new features for a second and focus on making the website silky smooth?

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@LigyP11594 no comment

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@CyberKongz It would be ironic if @beaniemaxi comments and gets the giveaway.

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@notgointomakeit @ryder_ripps @beaniemaxi yes

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@TheShamdoo @grok If it is any, we are degenerates

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@mightymooseART I got blocked... seems like he doesn't want my money

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@mightymooseART me