Thread by @robnessofficial

I'VE BEEN MAKING CRYPTOART SINCE 2016, DURING THE 'DANK AGES.'

LET ME IMPART SOME HARD TRUTHS TO THOSE WHO SHOWED UP AFTER BEEPLE. A ((( THREAD ))) OH NO!

1) IT TOOK ARTISTS TO BID ON EACH ARTISTS WORK BEFORE COLLECTORS EVEN SHOWED UP. DURING THE DAYS OF RAREPEPE....THAT WAS MERELY A DREAM.

2) BITCOIN TRANSACTION FEES AND ETHEREUM'S TOLERABLE FEES WERE AT A TIME 0.09 CENTS AND THUS PROLIFERATED SHARING ARTWORK, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO THE GROWTH OF THE ECOSYSTEM.

3) NO PROJECT WAS EVER HUSH HUSH ON THEIR RELEASES IN ORDER TO BEAT SOME SORT OF COMPETITION IN THE SPACE. THERE WAS A COLLECTIVE UNSPOKEN TRUTH TO KEEP YOUR CODE TINKERINGS FREE AND OPEN SOURCE FROM THE GET GO, TO HELP OTHERS GROW.

4) BITCOINERS BACK IN THE DAY AND NOW ARE STILL IGNORANT OF NFTS, OR HATE WHAT THEY ARE. THEY NEVER GOT IT AND EVEN BACK THEN WE WERE PRETTY MUCH BRUSHED OFF BY THE MAJORITY OF OUR OWN PEOPLE, EVEN WHEN USING THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN TO CREATE RAREPEPES.

5) THE CONCEPT OF SELLING HIGH DOLLAR AMOUNTS OF CRYPTOART BEGAN WITH THE SALE OF HOMERPEPE($40,000) AT THE RARE AF EVENT IN NYC, LONG BEFORE ANY COLLECTORS EXISTED OR ANY NFT PLATFORMS EVEN SPROUTED AS AN IDEA.

6) THERE WAS A TIME ON TWITTER THAT WAS EXTREMELY SILENT. WHERE FOLKS LIKE MYSELF, XCOPY, MAX OSIRIS, MISS AL SIMPSON ETC. WOULD POST UP OUR WORK IN THE HOPES SOMEONE WOULD MAKE THE JUMP AND COLLECT DIGITAL ART FROM THEIR OWN COMMUNITY. THAT'S WHY WE CHOSE TO USE TWITTER.

7) A LOT OF O.G. METAVERSE PLOTS LIVE ON CRYPTOVOXELS STILL. MOST OF THE O.G. CRYPTOARTISTS WERE EXPERIMENTING WITH BUILDING PLOTS AND ALL OF US HAVE AT LEAST ONE IN THERE SINCE THE BUILD TOOLS WERE EASIER THAN THE REST.

8) IT TOOK A CRAZY CRYPTOARTIST TO SHOW COLLECTORS THAT PAYING A $1000 BUCKS FOR A PIECE ON SUPERRARE WAS A POSSIBILITY. IT ALL BEGAN WITH COLDIE'S DECENTRAL EYES SNOWDEN PIECE, AND THAT PERSON WAS ME(TRUE HONEST FLEX). WHALESHARK LIKES TO BOAST BUT HE'LL ALWAYS BE #2.

9) DJPEPE IS THE FIRST MUSIC NFT IMPLEMENTATION, PERIOD.

10) MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF BURNING TOKENS STARTED WITH THE COUNTERPARTY PROTOCOL ON BITCOIN. THEIR PRESALE CONSISTED OF DESTROYING A 1000 BITCOINS TO CREATED 2,000,000 XCP TOKENS WHICH HELD VALUE FOR THE ENTIRE SYSTEM TO THIS DAY. RAREPEPES WERE MADE HERE.

11) MY FIRST PERSONAL INTRODUCTION TO SELLING A HIGH VALUED PIECE WAS SELLING A LORDKEK 1 OF 10 CARD FOR $10,000 DURING THE LAST BITCOIN BEAR MARKET, WHICH EVENTUALLY LEAD TO MY WEIRD COMPETITIVE COLLECTING HABITS INTO THE ETHEREUM CRYPTOART WORLD, I KNEW ALREADY THE POSSIBILITY.

12) MOST TECH INNOVATIONS FOR NFTS WERE PROBABLY ALREADY DONE IN THE EITHER THE RAREPEPE COLLECTION OR THE BLOCKCHAIN GAMES SPELLS OF GENESIS AND SARUTOBI. SOME STILL LIE DORMANT AS WELL AND HAVEN'T BEEN FULLY UTILIZED.

13) THE FIRST CROSS CHAIN GAME ITEM WAS A SATOSHICARD PORTED FROM SPELLS OF GENESIS AND INTO SARUTOBI AS A SECRET LEVEL UNLOCK FUNCTION. ONE ITEM....TWO GAMES. I WAS FORTUNATE TO SUGGEST THIS TO MANDELDUCK WHICH WITHIN ONE NIGHT, MADE MAGIC HAPPEN....COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.

14) THE FIRST TRUE 'NFT' WALLET WHERE WE COULD ACTUALLY SEE OUR ASSETS AND TRADE WITHIN IT WAS AN APP CALLED 'INDIESQUARE WALLET' AND IT WAS A GODSEND TO ALL OF US RAREPEPE FREAKS. NOT ENOUGH CREDIT GOES TO @Coin_and_Peace FOR THAT.

15) YOUTUBE HAS TONS OF ANCIENT VIDEOS OF COUNTERPARTY/XCP CONFERENCES DISCUSSING 'BLOCKCHAIN ART' AND IF YOU TYPE 'COUNTERPARTY 2014' YOU'LL FIND SOME TRUE O.G. VIDEO MATERIAL. THE YEAR 2014 IN GENERAL HAS A LOT OF GOOD VINTAGE CRYPTO CONTENT SINCE IT WAS THE YEAR OF ALTCOINS.

16) I DIDN'T SEE PARIS HILTON ANYWHERE IN THE BEGINNINGS OF NFT OR IN THE BUILDING OF ANY TOOLS THAT MADE THIS ALL HAPPEN, SORRY BUT IT'S FUCKIN TRUE AND I DISLIKE LIARS QUITE FRANKLY.

17) THE FIRST WOMAN TO TRULY MAKE THE JUMP FROM THE MUSIC WORLD AND INTO NFTS WAS IMOGEN HEAP AND THIS WAS YEAAAARS AGO.

18) NFTS WERE A BUZZ TERM A LOT OF US RAREPEPE CREATORS KIND OF DISLIKED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. IT CAME FROM THE ETHEREUM WORLD AND IT WAS THE CRYPTOPUNK CREATORS THAT REALLY RAN WITH IT. STILL NOT A FAN OF 'NFTS' HONESTLY LOL.

19) THE CORE GROUP OF ETHEREUM PHASE OF CRYPTOART ACTUALLY BEGAN ON A PLATFORM CALLED RAREART.IO WHICH IS NOW DEFUNCT AND THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF A PLATFORM DISAPPEARING AND YOUR WORK DISAPPEARING AS WELL. I MYSELF LOST ABOUT 15 PIECES, OTHERS WERE SAVED BY COLLECTORS.

20) PEPECASH WAS A CURRENCY WITHIN THE RAREPEPE UNIVERSE AND WE WOULD USE THAT CARD TO PURCHASE OTHER PEPES AS WELL. IT SAVED ME FROM BEING BROKE MANY TIMES. FUNNIEST OCCURENCE WAS WE ACCIDENTALLY GOT PEPECASH WHITELISTED BY THE JAPANESE GOVT. ONLY TEN ALTCOINS WERE ACCEPTED.

21) THE FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THE NFT CONCEPT, FOR ME....WAS BUYING A SATOSHICARD DURING THE SPELLS OF GENESIS GAME PRESALE DURING 2015(WHICH I ALSO TOOK PART IN BETA TESTING). I BEGAN MAKING ACTUAL CRYPTOART IN 2016.

22) LASTLY, THE VERY FIRST TIMES OF INTERACTING WITH THE NFT CONCEPT, I KNEW IN MY HEART OF HEARTS IT WAS GOING TO BE BIG. DIDN'T HOW OR DIDN'T KNOW WHEN...BUT I KNEW..

JUST AMAZING TO SEE WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED AND HOW MANY LIVES IT HAS HELPED.

FIN.