Thread by @LeonidasNFT

1/ Why Historical NFT literacy is important

ImmortalPlayerCharacter is pumping with the objectively false claim that it is older than CryptoPunks (all coming from misinformed holders and not the devs who actually want it to stop ASAP)

2/ I don’t believe this is a case of people necessarily intentionally lying, but rather they heard a claim and then perpetuated it probably because they didn’t know how to verify it or not.

3/ So here is a quick lesson on how to verify how old a Historical NFT is. We will use ImmortalPlayerCharacter as an example.

4/ First go to the NFT on OpenSea and expand the “Details” dropdown then click the “Contract Address” which will link you to Etherscan.

5/ Then click the contract creation transaction link.

6/ Lastly check the “Timestamp” field on the transaction and now you know when the ImmortalPlayerCharacter smart contract was deployed which is the on-chain date that we go buy for NFT History. As you can see ImmortalPlayerCharacter's contract creation date is March 15th, 2018.

7/ CryptoPunks were released nearly a year before ImmortalPlayerCharacter...

8/ For the record I had talked to one of the devs prior to the relaunch of IPC and just reached out to them and they confirmed that this misinformation was not coming from their team and that they want it to stop ASAP as it actually damages the IPC brand.

9/ Given there is absolutely nothing subjective to the claim that IPC is older than punks, if you tweeted about it being older than punks please delete the tweets so that objectively false information doesn’t keep getting perpetuated. ❤️

10/ Lastly I hold no IPC but think the project is really cool (for other reasons than the pre-punk claim) and will be interviewing the team next Thursday!