Two years ago this non-fungible token sold for $3.6M.
PEPENOPOULOS is indeed a very rare 2016 NFT.
For even rarer 2014-15 Counterparty NFTs, check out this list:
#AuctionUpdate
PEPENOPOULOS sells for new Rare Pepe record of $3,650,000 USD. Named after Andreas M. Antonopoulos, one of Bitcoin’s most renowned evangelists, this extremely Rare Pepe possesses the unique trait of mass education and the results to show for it.
#NativelyDigital
New low, Wikipedia..
..
@CounterpartyXCP
is now removed from the history of NFTs. As if XCP never existed. Who is in charge of this semi-locked article?
Frustrating, but the NFT history lives forever on the bitcoin blockchain. The truth must win🙏
@Wikimedia
@Wikipedia
My goal was to make the most elegant encoding for Bitcoin NFTs (stored in permanent outputs).
I am very thrilled that Bitcoin Stamps is embracing my method. And branding it OLGA is such a wonderful gesture 😊
Thank you
@mikeinspace
and
@Stampchain
team!
Coming soon to Bitcoin Stamps:
Octet Linked Graphics & Artifacts (OLGA)
Utilizing P2WSH, it will deliver the following improvements:
✅ 1 SigOp (therefore no SipOps penalty)
✅ Obviates the need for KeyBurn
✅ Low Sats/Output
✅ 50% cost savings compared to Bare MultiSig
ANN: OLGA STAMP Competition!
To celebrate today's launch of STAMP's new encoding "Octet Linked Graphics & Artifacts" I offer a prize to the best OLGA inspired artwork.
The 1st prize is PEPOLGA (more later) and all high-effort contributions receive a Dogeparty-OLGA (2014).
1/8
The counterdrama is over! Xchain is no longer running their private fork.
The community did not approve. After all, one person unilaterally changing the rules is against everything we believe in. (Eth heads, take note)
1/4
Announcing the winner:
We are very impressed by the quality & diversity of submissions. 18 artists, 18 styles, 18 distinct OLGA inspired artworks.
Comparing one against another has proven impossible. So what we did was narrow down to the ones that touched our ❤️the most
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Today marks the 7th anniversary of XCP CARDS.
It is the second oldest* crypto trading card set after
@SpellsofGenesis
.
It started with me putting SOG hashes onchain. I felt it was needed so future collectors could be able to verify the cards.
1/7
#BitcoinStamps
is yet another proof that XCP is a top-notch NFT platform!
When will Wikipedia's wrong description of XCP be corrected?
Single-unit, non-fungible tokens with onchain metadata have been issued on XCP since 2014.
@Wikipedia
@Wikimedia
In 2014 I made my NFT and pioneered finance.
In 2015 I played around with crypto cards.
2016? Already retired.
Kudos to
@WRabbit1111
for interesting graphics.
A guide on how to research Counterparty history
I already discovered several forgotten treasures: FFLTEAMA, MICE, FORMICACOIN, BOOKBAG.
(disclaimer, I own 1 of the latter, none of the others)
@LeonidasNFT
@swooty_dev
@Mx_SL_
@WRabbit1111
Afaik the first Punk derivative on Bitcoin is the 1k PUNKFREN pfp collection.
Made immutable in July 2022 with my image archiver.
(The artist did not add an onchain hash proof but I made a hash for every image on
@Counterparty
to protect the ecosystem)
OGCRYPTOART up on the wall.
OLGA center top next to Satoshi❤️
When we got this NFT we were so excited.
The next day Putin attacked Ukraine.
To us this artwork means
Hope. Love. Peace.
Thank you
@NataljaMoon
4/4 Jdog quit in a weird way, sure.
Perhaps the most cypherpunk way possible?!?
Regardless of opinion, we must always remember the tremendous effort he put into Counterparty over ten years.
To me, Jdog is no villain. He's the fu**ing Wilddog!
My old asset A2222222222222222222 now has a stamp.
Someone (I don't know who) added it.
The stamp is inside a BTC tx and recorded by XCP – albeit as an invalid issuance.
It is part of the asset's history nevertheless. Shall I make this the official stamp?
Wow! SEBUH woke up after 8 years and locked the supply at 1000!
I bought 3 from dispenser (₿0.00555 each)
It's the first token with certain important objective properties, see my timeline
PS. I don't know who's behind SEBUH or the full story.
FDCARD 57M mcap
RAREPEPE 48M
JPJA 0.7M
Comparing apples to oranges? As the NFT definition has evolved, JPJA ticks most boxes and is a 1st collectible candidate.
If 'trading card' is what counts, then XCP Cards could well be the 2nd collection after SoG.
LOCHNESS 0.02M mcap 😃
I only made one Rare Pepe submission.
RETARDPEPE was my reaction to centralization & censorship in an otherwise very nice project.
(My intention is not to offend anyone. I 💚 the Pepe community. Just cannot tell the story & gloss over Pepe's warts.)
🐸 / 16
On this day 8 years ago I surprised Olga with "My Eternal One & Only" OLGA token.
Today I gifted her a Pixel Map tile 💗
As a fully onchain, historic Ethereum project, I believe the
@PixelMapNFT
will live on forever.
@KenErwin88
@adamamcbride
My submission to the
@DogepartyXDP
Hackathon
Preserves the Dogeparty ecosystem from link rot. All NFT images now have an immutable onchain proof.
Also much fun to scroll through the images🐶
This 2015 blog post is mind-blowing! Explains the first ever decentralized card trade.
Written by junseth, is he on twitter?
Btw, around the same time he discussed SALVATION in a podcast. It's taken down, but he hopefully has a copy.
Steve Jobs insisted that every element of the Macintosh computer be beautiful, down to the circuit boards inside.
Apply the same mindset to NFTs. Beauty extends to code, token supply, timestamps, even hashes.
( Waiting for the right moment to show you.. )
"Worthless" Test Bitcoins were just traded for real money.
I am they buyer. I paid around $10k* for 4k tBTC. I did it to prove a point. Plus there's a fair chance I'll make a killing from this trade.
* I traded a JPJA token, est worth 0.25 BTC / $10k
1/n
Due to a massive increase in new assets on
@CounterpartyXCP
, I propose a small XCP fee for issuing NUMERIC assets (like has always been the case for named and sub-assets).
This to balance the cost of running a node with that of using the platform.
Whatever your opinion on Pepe, don't say the Bible didn't warn you:
"And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants." Exodus 8:4
..and bloat thy blockchain, I may add.
The separation of token and utility* was one of the greatest innovations in NFT history.
Was Rare Pepe the first to do this on scale, i.e. a project with market value?
*Symbolic token; no promise of return, not representing legal ownership, no purpose of the asset, etc.
I made a timeline of Bitcoin NFTs since 2014.
One project from Feb 2015 stands out. Beautiful art, serialized, immutable NFTs! New discovery?
More on this later.
/1
Just discovered ISART (2015, 1/1000) by
@rheaplex
on
@DogepartyXDP
.
Onchain metadata: "Is it art?"
Brilliant!
Belongs to the category of early one-line (monostich) poetry that explore token as an art medium.
The
@CounterpartyXCP
DISPENSER is an excellent solution to trading low-value tokens and/or buying from reputable sellers.
*** But dispensers are high risk when buying valuable tokens! ***
My CIP will fix this ... pending community support 🤞
The OLGA STAMP competition deadline has passed.
Fifteen wonderful submissions 😍
If yours is missing or you forgot to submit, please tweet out asap
List of submissions (in no particular order):
1/3
Just "stamped" PEPOLGA with an improved method.
>50% cheaper to mint than traditional stamps. And much easier on nodes.
First to discover the onchain image gets 1 of 8 tokens.
Super excited to learn about
#BitcoinStamps
!
These are eternal NFTs, encoded with multisig and using the XCP standard – very similar to OLGA.
Cannot get better than this. 🤩
Listing on
@Sothebysverse
claims the domain was minted by OneName in 2014 and acquired by the present owner.
FALSE! It expired in 2015. What they are selling is a replica from 2021 with no link/compensation to the OG.
It is all on the blockchain :
1/3
We're throwing a side event for
#nftparis
, and you're all invited for "Back to the Genesis"! 🔥
The best part?
If you own SoG cards, consider yourself on the VIP list!
🗓 Feb 24, 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍 28 Rue Fortuny, Paris
Join us for a roundtable with
So this is what I've been up to in the last year. Putting my money where my mouth is
This is just a part of my collection. I do own others that are not here and more of some of these plus other high value ones that I decided not to put in the showcase as it will dox my addresses
Breaking:
The royalties for a song with 170,000,000 streams are sold via NFTs.
Justin Bieber's producer Axident is selling the royalties from Bieber's song "Company" as NFTs.
1% of the royalties are sold in the form of 2,000 NFTs.
One NFT is equal to 0.0005% of the streaming
Your USDT can be frozen, just like PYUSD.
Bitcoin tokens via the
@CounterpartyXCP
standard can never be frozen – by design.
Ethereum, and other Turing complete systems, are horrible from a safety perspective since each and every contract must be independently reviewed.
Namecoin is a domain registry.
XCP is a token platform.
Mastercoin (Omni) is a token platform.
NXT is a token platform.
ERC20 is a token standard.
If you collect domains, fine, get one of the 2933 continuously renewed since 2011.
If you collect tokens, the oldest are from 2014.
🎅 23 DEC - WOLVERINE 🎅
In 2015, after I notarized this card, I realized the name was already taken.🤦♂️
Reserved by
@jdogresorg
, he was kind enough to give it to me in exchange for WALLY.
Last month I reset & locked the supply at 300.
WINNER
We are cat lovers, so this one immediately drew our attention. We like the hand drawn style by
@Shadeezs
@napkin_cat
, and how the new OLGA encoding enables this on Stamps.
4/
Introducing The Historic Stamps Collection - The golden set of 12 digital collectibles paying homage to some of the most significant blockchain artefacts.
When I minted OLGA on June 12, 2014, I inscribed the text "My Eternal One & Only"
The symbolic meaning goes without saying, but I also nailed the definition of non-fungible token.
A nice project would be to document all Pepes, rare and fake.
Thankfully everything is in a decentralized, censorship free database.
(XCP interprets the BTC blockchain to build a DB)
Here, description filtered by 'pepe'. CLIO appears to be the first ever Pepe ..
1/2
Wow! Historically rooted NFTs can be really cool!
NAKAMOTOCARD is an empty asset from June 2015 with design added in 2022.
Not to be confused with the first Rare Pepe, SATOSHICARD from Sep 2016. (
@WRabbit1111
pls correct timeline)
If you've ever collected one of the cmyk cards from me, or the NAKAMOTOLEO or HOMERCARD, you'll find just a 'lil bit of the 2015 NAKAMOTOCARD at one of your addys
This underlying NFT name asset was pretty much the first concept for a parody card hence the name
#CounterpartyXCP
Bitcoin is money.
In my book (JPJA, 2014) I discussed this and showcased it by selling tokens on the BTC DEX.
Bitcoin now is the currency of a billion dollar TOKEN economy.
Still early, but I think tokens solve the chicken-egg problem for Bitcoin to become the global currency.
SALVATION is controlled by
1SaLvationGodsMarveLousGracaLgYQS.
Seven tokens exist.
Only that address has the power
to mint more
and distribute SALVATION to all of us.
The address is the art.
🙏
"Don't trust, verify" is a key pillar of the crypto movement.
Here's a guide to verifying the 2015 Weird' n Wild NFTs – some of the oldest crypto trading cards in existence.
The Loch Ness Monster lurks somewhere deep, deep in the Bitcoin blockchain. Very few have ever spotted her. Even fewer are here to talk about it. Welcome to the club,
@BlackstarXXI
!
Here's a timeline of 'Economic Grails' – tokens that predate
@SpellsofGenesis
AND already used the same 1/N model.
The first three are JPGOLD, OLGA and JPJA.
I am surprised to find my own tokens topping the list bcs
@CounterpartyXCP
was already 6 mnt old with 1000+ assets.
1/n
HOMERPEPE $70M ?
I'd sell the OLGA token for that price.
Not for the reason you think.
It's about recognition!
Such a price would bring attention.
End the frustrating
@Wikipedia
censorship.
OLGA is as much the first NFT as the Wright Brothers experiment was the first flight.
@SpaceLlamaNFT
makes sense.
I wrote a script to find the earliest tokens on XCP with these criteria:
- locked
- max supply 3000
- traded on DEX
Only 7 matches from 2014! First is JPJA 🍻
A bunch of SOG cards from 2015.
Thousands of Pepes from 2016.
0/9
Non-expired Namecoin records from 2011 - 2015:
- 44k from 853k (5%)
- Almost all are .bit domains (96%)
- ein.bit is the oldest
- None are NFT-like (reserved names only, not one artistic expression)
Read:
(Open source research. Don't trust, verify.)
@DogepartyXDP
proves the XCP model. XDP was abandoned from 2016 to 2021. If it were its own blockchain, it would be impossible to tell if the 2021 reboot had been re-mined.
But since XDP is stored on a main blockchain,
@dogecoin
, it is protected against a re-mine scam.
3/3
Distribution of the two "missing" XCP Cards are complete.
WOLVERINE (supply 300) distributed 1:1 – meaning for each of GENET, LOCHNESS, GRAYWOLF, CHURCHHILL you held, you have received a WOLVERINE.
E.g. you held 1 GEN, 1 LOCH, 2 GRWLF, then your address has received 4 WOLVERINE
Rules:
- OLGA inspired
- Minted block 833,000-834,000 (inclusive)
- gif, jpg, png or svg
- Valid STAMP with OLGA encoding
- Any token supply 1-1000 is ok
- Tweet your artwork, link me
2/8
All participants receive one OLGA token on
@DogepartyXDP
. It was minted in 2014, supply 1000.
You will also receive a JPGOLD from 2014. Supply 1000. My first ever token, minted one day before OLGA.
Artist below, please reply with your XCP and XDP addresses:
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1x JPJA for Sale @ 10,000 Testnet Bitcoins!
Testnet is a top ten cryptocurrency in terms of infrastructure and adoption. As scarce as BTC.
I believe in laws of economics more than some authority who states that testcoins are worthless. I find them valuable & I want a big bag 😋