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[Modest @m0dest___]

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[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

And suddenly Art feels like the healthiest corner of crypto - with a strong sense of identity, deeply devoted people and no need to justify its existence.

[LoVid🫂📼 @lovidlovid]

I know she was on the radar of a few people here. Damn that’s sad

[Modest @m0dest___]

i have to commend andrew for executing this so well. innovative, collaborative, and a very interesting utility.

therefore, my horsemen cometh.

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[Modest @m0dest___]

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[Jedi @jedi6900]

Sat with this a few times now. When you read the description and then let the low and slow melancholic melody wash over, it becomes engulfing.

It's a very clever way to reference Mayan culture and collide it beautifully with internet culture... I want one.

Will also be m0dest's first museum piece. I believe many will be surprised this is a first, but many more of us know this is merely the first of many...

[ripe @ripe0x]

whenever i write about TBAM, i remember how wild the system is

machines changing every block, settled frames becoming permanent, editions opening from collector decisions, mint windows and mint prices shifting, all stored and generated onchain

the art is the network is the art

[Modest @m0dest___]

i’d rather
risk
making too much work
than become precious,
calculated, and creatively scared.

history is full of artists
who were told to make less.
very few became important
because they listened.

🖕📈

[hittman @hittman_]

"Success is making the thing you actually wanted to make before the world taught you to censor yourself."

incredible interview by @Jediwolf giving us a unique, authentic view into the world of @m0dest___ 🔥

[Thor⛩ @Punk8868]

An absolute must read

[神経色 @neurocolor]

𖢌exit𐫰request𖧵DENIED𖢌

[Han Saglam @hanrgb]

Thirty days of "Artificial After All"

On April 15th, the contract was deployed to Ethereum mainnet. A single transaction, and 256 child contracts waiting to be created from it. Over the following twelve hours I enjoyed creating the 64 artist prints, one by one.

Each piece a self-contained system, a compressed neural network embedded into 24kb of bytecode, capable of computing its own image on the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

The remaining 192 contracts were then opened to everyone at 0.128 ETH each. Each creation constituted a contract calling the "Artificial After All" contract, which in turn deployed a new "Artificial" contract. The chain handled the deployment, the storage, the computation, and the ownership ledger in a single sequence. All 192 Artificials were acquired within ten hours, and I shared a clue for Artificial After All during that time.

"The machine learned to see before anyone was watching. In those early moments, each creation was given an identity on the world computer. Every identity ends with a breath. Follow those breaths, from the first creation to the last before the doors opened."

A private key had been distributed across the addresses of the 64 artist prints. The final hex digit of each, in order, formed the key. One day after the sale, the puzzle was solved by @gifted_0x : https://t.co/a6y7P5v8Im

As of today, the work has accumulated its own activity. 149 wallets hold at least one piece. 105 secondary transactions have occurred. 47.37 ETH has changed hands between collectors. The highest single sale settled at 0.95 ETH.

In function, these resemble NFTs. They can be owned, transferred, listed, and bought. The structural difference is what matters. Each piece is a smart contract, not a token. The owner holds the contract itself: the weights, the inference logic, the marketplace functions, the ownership ledger. All of it, in one indivisible unit.

For example, this is an Artificial. You don't have to view it through the website. Any blockchain explorer works: 0x363F824eD7EAF45F9757C5C1FBe45957c2D1E844

There is no separate token pointing to external metadata. The ownership and the work are the same object. This is also why they do not appear on standard marketplaces. Each piece is its own marketplace. The chain itself is the storefront.

@yougogirl_eth published a detailed technical breakdown of how the network sits inside the contract: https://t.co/T7HVxNwqhQ

These are artifacts of permissionless infrastructure. Each piece computes its image deterministically from its seed at the moment of inquiry. The website is just an interface. The work is independent of it.

@InCartersEyes built a viewer that visualizes the inference happening in real time: https://t.co/dNy8SayJ6G

What follows

My desire is to extend the work beyond the chain through publications, prints, and other formats that can carry the underlying idea into other contexts.

16 Artificials are reserved for donation to museums and galleries. A portion of the remainder is intended for future patrons of the practice. This is an open letter to any of them.

Finally, I appreciate all collectors who are interested in digging, seeing the value in it, and rooting for it.

The art is not stored. It is computed. The market is not hosted. It is encoded. The permanence is not promised. It is enforced.

https://t.co/ja4dpuaa3e

[Silas @5ila5eth]

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admin is watching

the clock winds down, and we end up in a place and realize we are all mad here

[Thor⛩ @Punk8868]

https://t.co/b0LfV05QJU

[24 Hours of Art @24_Hours_Art]

art notice

[AndrewRiBT @AndrewRiBT]

The closer we get to the end of Death & Taxes @m0dest___, the more obvious the final problem becomes:

This game is never going to end.

Some want the art. Some want the ETH payout. Some want both. Some will hold to the grave. Some are looking for a way out.

So I’ve been building something around that tension.

THE FOUR HORSEMEN

A collection of 666 horsemen riding to bring the end of civilization. Near the end of time a while, pale, red and black horsemen will appear.

I currently have ~300 already made, but the goal is to open this up to the community as a collaborative art experiment tied directly into the endgame of Death & Taxes.

100% of proceeds go directly into the treasury multisig wallet controlled by myself, @inceptionally
@yukokosaka @LeftWithTheArt all pillars of the modest community and people I trust that will help direct these funds to bring forth the end of civilization.

The treasury exists for one purpose:

To create “ticket out” offers that incentivize citizens to leave the game.

As we approach the final 69, the system becomes increasingly brutal. Greed kicks in. Conviction gets tested. Some people would rather secure an exit than rmax pain

This project attempts to create liquidity and pressure relief during the final stages.

End goal:

If there are 169 citizens remaining, then theoretically 100 exits are needed to reach the final 69.

The treasury can then distribute pro-rata WETH offers based on:

Treasury size
Number of remaining citizens current Game conditions

We already have a bot framework being built that can help automate portions of this bidding logic dynamically as the numbers change.

Is it perfect? No.

There are still players who want both the art and the payout. There’s still greed. There’s still game theory.

But this creates a mechanism for people who want to leave with something instead of nothing, funded by collectors and participants who want to support the art and the chaos.

I’d also love for this to become collaborative.

If anyone in the community wants to create their own horsemen and submit pieces to the collection, reach out.

The goal is to reach 666.

If you have no idea how to make art, DM me and I’ll help however I can.

[Modest @m0dest___]

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[Adam Weitsman @AdamWeitsman]

Absolutely LOVE Death and Taxes by @m0dest___ which is one of the craziest projects I’ve ever participated in! Excited to add the Joker to my collection and take him all the way to 69, along with my other citizens. Thank you @livesawave for allowing me to acquire one of the grails of this amazing collection. I appreciate you 🙏