It's a special day. Today, 3 years ago... I minted 9 memes by 6529 and distributed a heap more.
When I first came across 6529 Memes it immediately clicked. I had the same aha moment as I had with art. The Metaverse hardly existed back then.
@thelinewtf standard was not adopted until three months later. altCoins were the hottest thing in town.
@DarrenSRS and I had to write DMs and then people filled out a form to mint them.
The
@manifoldxyz smart contract is being used to this date and has handled more than 20,000+ eth in sales. Claiming was cumbersome... but fun. I got to help people buy their first memes. In order to do claim them you had to get a DM from MintFace of one of three memes you liked.
6529Seizing, SeizeJPGs and UncleSeize were claimed.
@6529er had given me a preview of the art before mint and I had my favorite... to this day that fav is the highest priced meme of the three genesis set. Claiming was 0.06529, and was transferred upon payment manually.
I had allowlisted all the OG MINTED book artists... 10K Residence and
@NFT_AOTEAROA groups... as I felt I should leave some for others.
I later learned that was incredibly naive... as there were multiple wallets that claimed hundreds of memes.
Much has changed since those early days, but looking at memes never gets old.
@punk6529 and
@6529er were intentional visionaries. I'm stoked that they've never given a single bs excuse on the things that matter... that so often has accompanied projects in this space. Here’s to the next 3 years and whatever it brings 🥂🚀