"if poo coin flips pee coin nothing makes sense anymore" - WSJ 📈📉 tweets autodelete, opinions are my own 🌝🌚
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one of the biggest problems I have with many of the .eths on this website is they never took the digital art movement happening on Ethereum seriously
vitalik not having a meaningful onchain art collection is somewhat embarrassing for a chain where that has been one of the clearest use-cases
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Again I ask you, what is the point of owning ETH when you can just own Punks instead.
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1/ “Why I continue to rock the punk”, and associated stream of consciousness rambling. A thread 🧵
@0x113d is one of my favorite people to speak with. Whether in private or in public forum convo over Spaces, our conversations always leave me energized and buzzing with curiosity.
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for me, the most profound thing about @mathcastles’ Terraforms is that it beckons toward a fundamentally optimistic future for human computer interaction that you too can be a part of
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signing off of bird app for a couple weeks, wishing everyone a happy holidays in advance 💜💜
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if you list a punk and it is immediately bought by OTC, you probably listed it a bit too low 😅
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Feels good to see this ship. Big congrats to the @artblocks_io team 💜🚢
Two-thirds of Art Blocks projects rely on @p5xjs.
Today, we're thrilled to announce that p5js 1.0.0, the go-to dependency for Art Blocks, is now fully on-chain. ⛓️🔒
Curious to learn more? Read on!👇
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I have some strange mental illness where I constantly am fighting back the urge to buy another punk
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took a few weeks away from Twitter to touch grass and explore some new places, but wishing everyone who sees this a very happy 2024 💜💜
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Don't even ask the question. The answer is yes—it's already priced in.
Think Bitcoin will surge because President Trump just announced he is buying a shitcoin exchange? That's already been priced in. Nations are buying up strategic BTC reserves? Priced in.
You think the whales and institutional investors didn't already know that? The Bitcoin market is an all-powerful, all-encompassing entity that knows the very inner workings of your wallet before you even created it.
Your very existence was priced in when the first block was mined, factoring in population growth that would lead to your birth, the age you'd first buy Bitcoin, how many times you'd check the price each day, how often you'd HODL or sell, and so on.
Anything you can think of has already been priced in—even the things you aren't thinking of. You have no original thoughts. Your trading decisions are just an illusion, a product of the omniscient market. Free will is a myth.
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she is a vibe
Punk 1721 bought for 50 ETH ($181,962.00 USD) by 0xcc20fd from 0xb5e6ac. cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/… #cryptopunks #ethereum
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crypto is the most unhinged industry
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON PORNHUB AWARDS PUSSY IN BIO MOLLY WATER INCIDENT
The $pussyinbio marketing team would like to apologize to the attendees of the the 6th annual Pornhub Awards last night who may have interacted with a Pussy in Bio community member who was provided merchandise to share with some of the evening’s nominees with the intention of celebrating their pussy excellence.
It’s come to our attention that without our knowledge this community member took it upon themselves to distribute MDMA alongside our Pussy in Bio merchandise, and may have engaged in various lewd behavior unbecoming of the Pussy in Bio Community. In no way do we endorse or support this kind of behavior and we sincerely apologize to anyone whose celebration may have been impacted by this. We promise to learn from this and we will do better.
pussyinbio
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NICE punk
Punk 9230 bought for 43.43 ETH ($155,602.75 USD) by 0x9a1cdb from 0x2238c8. cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/… #cryptopunks #ethereum
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idk thinking a bit more about this I think vitalik would actually *get* @mathcastles terraforms quite readily as the medium native art piece that it is and the fact that he doesn't have a grail collection of these (or something else that is medium-native) is a fucking travesty
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I was thinking about rotating some of my BTC back into ETH, but with XRP flipping everything it is clear this market is all a joke and it’s safest to just stay with the king. Lmao 😂😂😂
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“The piece is an iceberg. That said, it doesn't expect confrontation with its depth”
I appreciate this framing. Deep admiration and much love for @0x113d and @mathcastles studio. 💜🫡
If you've had an eye on Terraforms but never deep dived or collected, seems like a reasonable moment to give it a look. See if you find the work and its surrounding scene & values genuinely compelling
The work stands for things that you might appreciate and be aligned on
To start, there are few pieces here that express longevity as strongly as Terraforms
Certainly at a formal-technical level where even still the piece has few peers
Then, deeply in its artistic & conceptual concerns
A composition responding to a culture of infinite vaporous placeholders & obsolete-before-launch marketing flash grenade candy. A not ironic, not cynical, not dystopian response. An Art Question. About context obsolescence and the future. Expressed in a program as artwork, for World Computer. Aka a medium people have barely even noticed yet
Aspiration to lighthouse or alarm clock amidst the pvp moshpit of siren shipwreck nihilism devotees
Functionally as competitive differentiation even, and there exists an underserved market, audience, and collectorbase. I know because I'm in it
But most important: longevity shows up in Terraforms through the values of its culture and collectors
The multi-year social reality it has grown is a solid base for a kind of new voice in crypto and art. This is not an accident, and slowly, quietly starting to manifest
It's surprising to me but the piece is still quite misunderstood by many high profile figures here
I think some maybe haven't even heard of it. Many still know very little about it. I've seen figures regarded as experts voice things that show they've effectively never encountered it
This is okay by the way, no one should feel embarrassed. The piece is an iceberg. That said, it doesn't expect confrontation with its depths
The surface was always meant to be standalone and an invitation to an optional rabbit hole. And that continues to work. Plus, it's fun to have a bit of a "best kept secret" feeling persist over long periods and generations of new collectors
At the same time as all this, allow a bold sentence:
Terraforms is a core artwork on Ethereum
Consider that this is only partially a claim from me directly
I personally experience this as pronounced by our diehard longterm collectorbase. I live in and fuel the reality they've generously established around the piece. It's a kind of feedback loop. Art is Other People
Every artist should be so blessed to know this feeling at least once. Then, for a career, to learn to nurture it with their practice, and seek to honor what people are offering them through it. It's a tremendous experience, especially for one seeking excellence truly worthy of the archetype Artist
While I'm here.. part of why I'm posting.. the piece's context is likely to shift this year, as we've entered a new era in crypto these last few months. Not that art culture here has noticed yet
Bitcoin -> Ethereum -> ........whatever this will be called
I believe my next piece has a pretty good shot at deepening all of this like dominoes. I've been working very hard for the last few years to set the stage to try in any case, the work will of course do whatever the work does. That said I'm unbelievably excited to make this next piece regardless of how it goes or how it is received, which tells me I'm on the right track
Terraforms recent upgrade set some stage for this as well, though I've been quiet and not eager to reveal too much. I've wanted time and room to explore this frontier with little competition.
I spent the last few years deep in studies of this next era's technical trenches. By my personal values for myself, this is almost a duty of one seeking this role "Artist"
One ought truly study a medium's unique affordances, develop muscles in them, and seek to invent-discover new kinds of work in their new contexts. Perhaps developing new virtuosities or pronouncing the very terms of such. And/or cutting open radical new Ways of Seeing. For, aspirationally, toward making a kind of contribution, or having real speech act worthy of Art History
I've been adapting my entire practice and thinking for this new era, and have invented several patterns that are finally starting to bloom new pieces
So this is to say, it could be a good time to revisit Terraforms and collect if you find the piece of personal interest. I might tweet a few more of these over the next few weeks, as an invitation to some cultures who I think could appreciate the piece and perhaps haven't met it yet
I'm more than happy to chat in DM or hop on voice calls for anyone who is interested to learn more, or even give stream tours of the piece and its depths. Don't be shy, would be nice to make new friends and connect
To everyone else reading this who has supported me or Mathcastles, or shown enthusiasm for Terraforms, thank you so much. I will continue to work to honor what you offer me, with my fullest capacity
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Very excited to be releasing this work with @VertuFineArt 💜
Love this small set, and the generative space it explores through a handful of constraints.
One palette, one composition, one very smol algorithm, one moon, one sun. 18 pieces.
Coming this Friday 🌞🌛
Jake Rockland’s Opuntia will be releasing exclusively on Sansa the @artblocks_io marketplace on Friday, May 17th at 1PM EST.
Opuntia is Jake’s most limited series to date featuring 18 artworks.
The dutch auction will go from 1.2 -> 0.4ETH.
Please reach out with any questions!
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spending time on pump.fun is definitely NOT good for your brain
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Superbly stoked about this.
What a send off for the last Squiggle mint.
💜💙💚💛🧡❤️
Hi everyone!
The time has come to mint Squiggle #9999. I’m so excited to finally get to see what the last output will look like and get it into the hands of @LACMA.
This is a save the date to invite you to participate in the festivities. No action necessary now. Please read on below.
I’ve had the honor of working with @_deafbeef on a farewell smart contract to commemorate the final mint. It will live on as an immutable relic of who’s here and active in our ecosystem as the Chromie Squiggle project comes to a close.
I will follow up with some additional information but for now here are the basics:
Smart contract will go live Monday, July 15th at 12pm CT and close the following Monday, July 22nd, at the same time.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to “sign” the contract and participate in the farewell. Note: there will be no website and no need to connect your wallet anywhere. Anything stating otherwise is a scam.
To sign the farewell you’ll simply send any amount of ETH (I suggest sending 0.001 ETH, but anything you send will be immediately and automatically sent back to you by the contract anyways, you can send as little as 0.000000000000000001 ETH if you want) to the smart contract address. This will trigger a function in the contract to record your participation.
I’ll share the contract address as soon as I have it.
The smart contract will be open for one full week so take your time signing! At the end of the week, the contract will be paused and will be sealed forever once the last mint is executed. Then, in the weeks following I will initiate the transaction for minting Squiggle #9999 directly to the museum’s address via this smart contract, eternally linking anyone that participates to the final mint.
More details to come, but most important right now is that you know there will be no website or place to connect your wallet. The contract will be a raw smart contract that you’ll only be able to explore via Etherscan. This is mostly to keep you safe and make it easy to participate, but also a bit of nostalgia for the old days when I was tinkering with ETH in the pre-MetaMask era.
It would be incredibly meaningful for me to get as many people as possible to interact with the contract, so please help me spread the word!
Anyone and everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate.
❤️
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Most “thinkers” in this space are stochastic parrots, with nothing real to say at all.
Chris is always so enjoyable to read because this is not the case—the realness of thought is refreshing.
Give it a read.
New essay from me:
The Sainted Seven - Reading the high end NFT sales of 2024
paragraph.xyz/@starholder/th…
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how does Harris claim she’s not killing a baby in their 9th month when she just killed a baby in his 78th year
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If anyone on the timeline is an owner of @omentejovem's "Weird Party" editioned piece and would be interested in trading it for both of his "Untitled" editioned piece and a "Purple Moon" edition, please reach out.
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finally planted my flowers 🌸🌸🌸
worldcomputersculpture.garde…
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Very excited to see this ship and proud of the Art Blocks team for getting it done 💜🙌
Big news: Art Blocks is now truly on-chain!
Today marks a significant milestone in the Art Blocks journey. As we celebrate 4 years, we're thrilled to announce that 90% of artwork released across our ecosystem is now fully on-chain—including all dependencies. No external services, no platform dependencies.
Everything needed to generate these works lives permanently on Ethereum. Using just a web browser and access to the blockchain, these artworks can be experienced exactly as intended, forever.
This achievement represents a fundamental shift in digital art preservation. Run your own generator, pin the UI to IPFS, or access directly from Ethereum—these works are now truly independent of any platform.
Read @ArtOnBlockchain's thoughts on this milestone: artblocks.io/curated/article…
Learn more and try the on-chain generator: artblocks.io/onchain
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If our government was competent I would say this is what government is for (nationalize it)
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Missing terraforms and some beef
@mathcastles @_deafbeef
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I’ll telling my kids that this was a terraform
I have been able to buy my dream nft @veefriends by @garyvee, i went to 100 garage sales and finally have enough money to afford this!
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10/ Thank you for attending my TED talk and happy Friday y’all.
Shout out to @0x113d and @matto__matto for the stimulating conversation the other night.
End of thread. 🔚
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1) What
The president of Artblocks just launched a token $Aiblks
Proof:
If you check pre-bonding ca , dev wallet links to this 0xe27c5d32ff9180fcb04d095cf4ee6a4000ebe7f8
aka 0xHouston.eth
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we’re in that part of the cycle where we’re debating which of the awful coins are more awful.
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