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Inside News About The Billion $$$ Pixel Art Blockchain Token Con-Artist Fraud. All About Matt & John's® Punks And Much More.
Punk Week 08/2022
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
Philip the Intern Presents: How-To Generate Not Sotheby's Phunk It! From Scratch / Zero - 104 Phunks. 1 Lot. 6 Versions (All Black 'Dark' Phunks, All White 'Pale' Phunks, All Zombies, All Goldies, All Pinkies, All Ghosties). 1 Bitmap. Right-Click & Save To Own 100% Forever - phunkit.png (~11k)
I’m honored and excited to have arranged [ - million dollar commission, ka-ching! - ] for the sale of 104 Matt & John’s® punks from anonymous crypto whale [bro & millionaire] 0x650d at Sotheby’s. Tonight’s Punk It! dinner at Sotheby’s HQ [in New York City, United States] was just the start. Auction is tomorrow night 23rd February. First [truly historic con-art fraud] of its kind. Alsooo sign me up for this wallpaper?! [Hint: Ask Philip the Intern :-) - All black “dark” phunks? All white “pale” phunks? What’s your Phunk It! favorite?]
– Sabrina Hahn (Forbes 30 Under 30)
As a follow-up to Philip the Intern Presents: Not Sotheby’s Phunk It! Truly Historic Free Download - 104 Phunks. 1 Lot. 4 Versions (V1/V2/V3/V4). 1 Bitmap. Right-Click & Save To Own 100% Forever - phunkit.png (~26k) I put together a new script that generates all 104 punks form the punk it! lot from zero / scratch, that is, using the attributes from the punkit.csv dataset.
Philip the Intern not only “hand-flips” all punks one-by-one but turns one lot into six.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
Philip the Intern Presents: Not Sotheby's Phunk It! Truly Historic Free Download - 104 Phunks. 1 Lot. 4 Versions (V1/V2/V3/V4). 1 Bitmap. Right-Click & Save To Own 100% Forever - phunkit.png (~26k)
As a follow-up to Sotheby’s Punk It! Truly Historic [Con-Art Fraud] - 104 Matt & John’s® Punks V2. 1 Lot. Bid Starting @ US$14 Million - New! All-In-One Right-Click & Save Bitmap - sothebys-punkit.png (~8k) Free Download I put-together with the help of philip the intern a phunk it edition (see above in original 1x size). The specs:
- All 104 Phunks - hand-phlipped by Philip the Intern.
- 1 Lot.
- 4 Versions (Phunks V1, Phunks V2, Phunks V3, Phunks V4).
- 1 Bitmap.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
Inside Sotheby's Punk It! 104 Punks Lot - punkit.csv - Tabular Dataset with all IDs, (Face & Skin) Types, Attributes - Free Download - Analyse 104 Cheapo 'Floor' Punks - Structural Racism? How Many Black (Dark Skin Tone) vs White (Pale Skin Tone) Punks?
If anyone wants to analyze the 104 cheapo “sweep the floor in one transaction (tx)” punk lot now “rebranded” Punk It! at Sotheby’s upcoming truly historic [con-art fraud] auction with a starting bid of US$ +14 million - I prepared a tabular datasets in the comma-separated values (.csv) format with all ids, (face & skin tone) types, and attributes.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
How-To Generate Sotheby's Punk It! - 104 'Cheapo Floor Sweep' Matt & John's® Punks From Scratch / Zero - Spot The Difference (Hint: Free 100% Pixel-Perfect Original - There's None)
Our Punk It! Exhibition is OPEN in Decentraland. Visit Sotheby’s HQ to view all 104 CryptoPunks in a totally new, neon way.
Plus, don’t miss the LIVE sale tomorrow 23 February at 7:00pm ET. Watch the livestream directly in Decentraland.
– Sotheby’s Metaverse Update
As a follow-up to Sotheby’s Punk It! Truly Historic [Con-Art Fraud] - 104 Matt & John’s® Punks V2. 1 Lot. Bid Starting @ US$14 Million - New! All-In-One Right-Click & Save Bitmap - sothebys-punkit.png (~8k) Free Download I put together a new script that generates all 104 punks from zero / scratch, that is, using the attributes from the punkit.csv dataset.
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Trash Artist and 'Unofficial Punk®' Eric Rhodes Reports OpenSea Censors 'PUNK®' in Titles of New Artwork! Welcome to the New 'Decentralized' Digital Market!
Self-declared trash artist and “Unofficial Punk®” (are there any official punks¹?) Eric Rhodes (also known as Second Realm) writes on the one-year anniversary of the first “Unofficial Punks®” trash art collection:
It’s the 1-year anniversary of [my] “Unofficial Punks®” [trash art collection]. And I learned that my punk fam[ily trash art collection] - who don’t have the blue checkmark - can’t use the word “PUNK” in titles when minting on the OpenSea shared store front. So I minted “Unofficial ‘PUNK®’“ for them.
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Sotheby's Punk It! Truly Historic [Con-Art Fraud] - 104 Matt & John's® Punks V2. 1 Lot. Bid Starting @ US$14 Million - New! All-In-One Right-Click & Save Bitmap - sothebys-punkit.png (~8k) Free Download
As a follow-up to Sotheby’s - Our next Sotheby’s Metaverse Sale ‘Punk It! 104 CryptoPunks. 1 Lot.’ Will Be A Landmark LIVE Evening Auction on February 23rd, 2022. Truly Historic [Con-Art Fraud] I put together an all-in-one image composite with all 104 punks ordered by ids (starting from #239 to #9795) in a 10x11 grid (cols x rows).
The bitmap estimated at US$40+ million where bidding starts at US$14 million is 240x264 pixels and weighs in about 8 kilobytes. See the pixel perfect free punk whitelabel edition above (in 1x original size).
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
10 000 Dooggies - 32x32 Pixel Art By 16-Year-Old Teenager (Anno 2021) - Is This The Original Art / Inspiration of The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Bored Ape Kennel Club (BAKC) Derivatives? Lamborghinis Points Out 20+ 'Perfect' Matching Attributes - What's Your Take?
As a follow-up to Alpha, Alpha, Alpha Alert - 10 000 Dooggies, The World’s First 10 000 Doge Edition (Anno 2021) - Free All-In-One Image Composite Download (3200x3200px) - dooggies.png (~1.7MB) - the [non-fungible] token archeologist / collector - Lamborghinis - who uncovered the dormant 10 000 dooggies collection (Anno 2021) that lay waiting unsold (only about six? dooggies minted) hidden on the public blockchain before hitting the big time with a new marketing (or is that shilling?) team and rebranding as world’s first historic 10 000 doge collection - posted the image above (titled “Smoking Gun - Bored Ape Yacht Club® Copyright Infringement!?”).
Monday, February 21st, 2022
(Unlimited) Synthetic Punks (On Chain) - Punks For Everyone / Every Ethereum Account / Address by Stephan Cilliers Et Al - What's Your Take?
Stephan Cilliers¹ writes:
I’ve been working on a synthetic loot spinoff for my latest project - synthetic punks.
1) Synthetic Punks stores a spritesheet [image with punk attributes] on chain and procedurally generates your [punk] avatar on the fly based on your [ethereum] address [for free].
2) You can optionally claim yours as an ERC-721 [non-fungible] token for 0.02 ETH (~ US$ 50) to support our future projects!
Check out your Synthetic Punk avatar at syntheticpunks.com
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Synthetic Punks (On Chain) Spritesheet (All 11 Archetypes and 133 Attributes) - Size : 10.77KB, 11028 Chars - Request For Comments
As a follow-up to Synthetic Punks (On Chain) - Punks For Everyone / Every Ethereum Account / Address by Stephan Cill Et Al - What’s Your Take? I tried a quick & dirty conversion of the on-chain base64-encoded punk spritesheet (see above in 1x).
A quick count shows 11 archetypes / faces and 133 attributes (if I am counting right 24 cols x 6 rows - 11 archetypes = 133 attributes).
Punk Week 07/2022
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
Punks V2 Upcoming (New Attributes! New Colors! New Background!) - Rebranding Historic Punks V2 To Classic (Or Is That Antique or Archaic) Matt & John's® CryptoPunks V2 - What's Your Take? Wen V1? Wen V5?
V2 Punks - a new interpretation of the situation around the punks versions, designed to close the gap between V1 and V3.
Yes, I’m perfectionist: v1punks.io > v2punks.io > v3punks.io > v4punks.io
Let’s go, green army!
V2 Punks minting (the first 1000 punks for 0.01 ETH (about US$ 30), remaining for 0.02 ETH (about US$ 60))
Let’s applaud Romero for bringing a fresh take on the V1, V2, V3, V4, V5, Classic vs Historic vs Antique vs Archaic saga.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
PUNK® Trademark Foundation (Or Is That DAO?) Upcoming - Let's Collect Funds to Defend That PUNK® Belongs To Us All - First Case - Crypto Fraudsters' Matt & John's® Ongoing Infringement for Serious Violation of the PUNK® Ethos / Philosophy / Trademark
Here’s an idea:
Let’s start a PUNK® Trademark Foundation (or is that DAO?) to defend the punk ethos / philosophy from ongoing infringements for serious violations of the PUNK® ethos / philosophy.
The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action and not “selling out”.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
Crypto Bro Millionaire Influencer Case Study - Mike Hager - German Crypto Art Token 'Pope' And Bestselling Author of 'Getting Rich Quick w/ Non-Fungible Tokens - Everything You Need To Know' - Another Crypto Bro Scammer & Fraudster? - Inside the Bubble Propaganda Machine
Let’s state the obvious that most “art” token need to get regulated as securities (why buy? obviously because the token is an investment and the buyer expects prices go up by HODLing - that is - doing nothing) and the youtubers and influences promoting the “trash” like todays’s case study and crypto bro millionaire and fraudster Mr. Mike Hager - calling himself in the cryptoverse “Nullinger” that I assume translates to know-nothing or dummy - can spout any non-sense without what looks like facing any consequences for defrauding thousand of newcomers with complete bullshit.
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
Free Legal Tip To Larva Labs Bros (Fraudsters) - Change Your Trademark That You Want To Claim To Something That You CAN Protect - PUNK® Belongs To Us All - Try Matt & John's® Or Something
A public service announcement and free legal tip to the Larva Labs Bros / Fraudsters - rename your 24x24 pixel collection to something that you CAN protect.
How about Matt & John’s® “I Am Rich” Blockheads? Or the Matt & John’s® Billion Dollar Bitmap? Or whatever.
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
How-To Turn Raster Graphics / Bitmaps One-Pixel At A Time Into High-Quality Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Drawing Instructions - Request For Comments
I am looking / researching how to turn small-ish (e.g 24×24 punks or cool cats) raster graphics / bitmaps one-pixel at a time into high-quality scalable vector graphics (svg) drawing instructions.
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
artbase - Zero-Config (Web) Server / Services Update - What's News? Scalable Vector Grapics (SVG) Format Support - Yes, Turn Your Punks, Cool Cats, And More Into High-Quality XXL Posters w/ Crisp Edges
A follow-up to artbase - Zero-Config (Web) Server / Services Update - What’s News? Philip! Phree the Phunks! And Yes, Use Your Own Background Colors (V1, V2, V3) And More I added some more web services. What’s news?
1) Turn any pixel art (punks, cool cats & more) into high-quality xxl posters w/ crisp edges
Monday, February 14th, 2022
SolPunks Lead ('Tractor') Claims SolPunks Trademark to Bully and Shutdown DumbSolPunks Parody - New Episode Coming Soon To A Blockchain Near You? V1, V2 & V3? Or Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest?
While doing a search on github to find any open source punk code out there (try yourself - #cryptopunks) I found - the SolPunks Truth Foundation / Project and the Dumb SolPunks parody.
The now “archived” Dumb SolPunks website reads:
WARNING: Dumb SolPunks are NOT for everybody.
Monday, February 14th, 2022
6699 PUNK® MOTHER FUCKERS® - Wen launch? Wen reveal? Wen roadmap? Is this a scam, a rug pull, a cash grab, eh?
As follow-up to To Larva Labs Bros - Matt & John - Please, Study About Punk® (Mentality / Attitude / Philosophy ) Or Learn By Example - See Mother Fuckers®, Mother Fuckers! - let’s highlight the latest collection a mash-up of 6699 PUNK® MOTHER FUCKERS® - SOLD OUT!
The F.A.Q. reads:
Monday, February 14th, 2022
To Larva Labs Bros - Matt & John - Please, Study About Punk® (Mentality / Attitude / Philosophy ) Or Learn By Example - See Mother Fuckers®, Mother Fuckers!
Let’s repeat together - the bold claim of the Larva Labs Bros - yes, we are looking at you - Matt & John - trying to claim the anti-corporate greed, anti-consumerist and not “selling out” word “PUNK®” is anything but punk.
Let’s read-up on punk (subculture) - let’s say on Wikipedia:
Monday, February 14th, 2022
'Chunke Monke': Right now, SolPunks is just a regular [non-fungible] token ponzi. Most (all) of the revenue of derived from attracting new users with hype arguably in a way that is not sustainable. Discuss.
Looks like the write-ups The SolPunks pyramid-shaped scheme, Someone is trying to trademark CryptoPunks. And it’s not Larva Labs and more by pseudonymous Ex-Facebooker “Chunke Monke” on the SolPunk token ponzi fraud are a gold mine. “Chunke Monke” writes:
Right now, SolPunks is just a regular [non-fungible] token ponzi. Most (all) of the revenue of derived from attracting new users with hype arguably in a way that is not sustainable.
Punk Week 06/2022
Friday, February 11th, 2022
Gustav Klimt - The Free (Pixel) Punk Edition (32x32, Anno 2022) - The Kiss, Judith (and the Head of Holofernes)
A Digital Declaration of Love - “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt now available for Valentine’s Day.
In collaboration with ArtèQ, the Belvedere [Gallery in Vienna, Austria] is launching a [non-fungible] token drop of a historical masterpiece. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the most famous depiction of a pair of lovers will be offered for sale in a limited number of [10 000] digital excerpts.
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
Punks (and Phunks) V1, V2, V3, V4 Timeline / Version History - First (Quick) Draft - Comments and Corrections Welcome
Inspired by a slide deck on the the punk v1 & v2 history making the rounds online (BUT with the download option turned-off! and cut-and-paste of text turned-off! too) I present you a fresh take on the v1 & v2 saga with some light editing on the “original” text and timeline.
Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
Sotheby's - Our next Sotheby's Metaverse Sale 'Punk It! 104 CryptoPunks. 1 Lot.' Will Be A Landmark LIVE Evening Auction on February 23rd, 2022. Truly Historic [Con-Art Fraud] - What's Your Take? Anyone Knows More About the Punk IDs?
Remember: Sotheby’s gets a 5% commission (or more?). Do the math. The 104 punks lot’s estimated about US$ 20 to 30 million.
What’s your take on Sotheby’s Punk It! Auction - 104 CryptoPunks [V2] in 1 Lot? Is this the top of the (crypto) punk madness? Are insiders cashing in on the con-art fraud before the (punk) bubble bursts?
Update
Laughing my ass off (LMAO) at “elevate punks in the international art community” rather than “trying to dump my bags without causing [minimum] floor [price for a punk] to drop below where I bought in”.
You’re selling 104/104 punks [v2] you bought only six months ago because you believe they’re a top long term digital asset? Doesn’t quite add up.
Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(Academic) Paper / Essay - Are CryptoPunks Copyrightable? (21 Pages) by Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky - College of Law (Spoiler: It’s unclear. Translation: No, of course not.) - What's Your Take?
Finally the first (academic) paper / essay trying to say in many (read between the lines) words the obvious - yes, the Lavra Labs Bros - Matt Hall and John Watkinson - are con-art crypto bro fraudsters if the continue pushing the false narrative (“or is that self-enriching lies”) with claiming copyright for trivial 24x24px (profile) images in 8-bit colors.
Punk Week 04/2022
Friday, January 28th, 2022
Youtube Video - How to Make (Crypto) 2D Alien Pixel Punk #3100 in 3D Cubes w/ Blender from Scratch / Zero in 60 Seconds
As a follow up to Public Service Announcement - All Punks Are Good Punks - Larva Labs Crypto Bros / Fraudsters Claim Only Its Own Exclusive (Token) Collection Is “Official” lets highlight the absurdity with a video that shows you how to recreate a “million dollar con-art” 2D alien pixel punk in 3D cubes with Blender from scratch in 60 seconds.
Friday, January 28th, 2022
Punk Mania - Dave - 19 Year-Old Polish Teenager Pulls In Millions w/ Cinema Punks, Youtuber Punks, Pornstar Punks, & More - Con-Artist Fraudster Or Genius?
I guess everybody knows the story of the 12-year-old British teenager - Benyamin Ahmed aka Obi Wan Benoni - pulling in a $300 000+ fortune in minutes with faux-pixel punk art - that is, 3350 weird whales [with the help of google - for the whale pixel art - and his programming pro father and a South African (crypto) pro coder from Boring Bananas Company (BBCo)].
Anyways, while downloading (or is that right-clicking?) and saving punk collections (see /collections) I stumbled over 19-year old Polish teenager Dave¹ - one time, two times, three times and more.
Thursday, January 27th, 2022
Are Pixies the New Punks? The First 100 Women Pixies - Free Download - The Pixie(r) Edition of World of Women (WOW) Pixies Downsampled From 1500x1500 to 98x98
1900+ wowpixies bitmap owners, ETH 0.12 (~US$ 280) (minimum) floor price, ETH 528 (~US$ +1 million) traded
(Source: OpenSea Market Data)
I am trying to put together a free women pixies edition¹. It looks like the “original” World of Women Pixies in the 1500x1500 format can get downsampled into a “pixier” 98x98 format (see above in 1x).
Punk Week 03/2022
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
Punk Pixel Art How-To - Generate Your Own Super-Rare Fast Food Punks - McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin' Donuts & More
I put together a sample script to get your started with your own fast food punk collection. Yes, you can. Add golden punks or green aliens and more (see above in 4x zoom).
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
Alpha, Alpha, Alpha Alert - 10 000 Dooggies, The World's First 10 000 Doge Edition (Anno 2021) - Free All-In-One Image Composite Download (3200x3200px) - dooggies.png (~1.7MB)
I put together an all-in-one composite for Dooggies (32x32), The World’s First 10000 Doge Edition.
Download a free all-in-one image composite - dooggies.png (~1.7MB) at the Pixel Art Exchange.
Monday, January 17th, 2022
20+ New (Free) Punk Building Blocks / Attributes Added - Let's Welcome the First Batch in the Fast Food Series (24x24) Incl. Caps for Br, Brk, Castle, Dom, Dunk, Hut, Jack, Kentucky, Mcd, Sub, W & More
For easy (re)use I added 20+ new free punk building blocks / attributes in the 24x24 format. Let’s welcome the first batch in the new Fast Food Series (24x24) incuding (baseball) caps for Br, Brk, Castle, Dom, Dunk, Hut, Jack, Kentucky, Mcd, Sub, W & more.
Questions? Comments?
Post them on the CryptoPunksDev reddit. Thanks.