True about the prestige part... way more than the Bored Apes Yacht Club -- what a disaster. To be honest, when I first saw CryptoPunks I was like "damn these look like shit"  but then I started learning about how they were made, the significance of what they did, and came to the realization that the art of NFTs doesn't really matter -- just the provenance, and it many cases, the surrounding hype.


I think most people cringe when they hear the term "NFT". I'm up for a rebranding to the term "blockchain collectibles."


A couple more big sales recently:

An Ether Rock (talk about dumb art) just sold for 300,000 USDC.

Another CryptoPunk sold for $5.15M (head-explode.gif)

With Punks, first is first and it matters...  A lot.

But as for the art looking like sht, I think it looked good the first time I saw them.  Something I'd like to wear as my pfp if they weren't so damn expensive.  It was the Apes that didn't make sense to me and why they were so pricey.  But yeah, I guess the art doesn't really matter that much just like how some of these projects are still worth so high in market cap and they don't do sht.

Bitgirls Counterparty Collection on the Move

One of the lesser-known but still significant Counterparty collections saw 6 sales within the last few days, sandwiched between dispenses of Rare Pepes, Spells of Genesis and XCP. Launched in 2016, the BitGirls token series consists of trading card-style images of Japanese game show participants. Per NFT History,

BitGirls was a Japanese TV show and blockchain based project on Counterparty, that allowed viewers to support girls by purchasing their tokenized cards. Viewers were also able to vote for their favorite BitGirl based on their performance during a show. BitGirls was very innovative for its time and offers some of the first examples of NFTs of real people, NFTs of photography, NFTs associated with a TV show, NFTs involved in a voting system, and NFTs of only women.

SHIRAHOSHIBG, one of the 6 tokens sold to a single buyer:


Other BitGirls tokens sold include:

DJASANYANVIX
HINANOMAIBG
TSUKASAVIX
SANOMAYAVIX
CHIKARINVIX

for between 0.0019 and 0.003 BTC a piece. This collection isn't very well distributed and its not often you see this many sell at one time.

Historical Dogeparty Assets on the Move

Its not every day I can use a headline like that one, as things have been pretty quiet in the Dogeparty-sphere for quite some time; arguably since Doginals sucked all the attention in the Dogecoin NFTs room, which isn't very big.

But. In the last 72 hours we've seen the following Dogeparty HNFT sales take place, which suggests things may be once again picking up:

JOLLYROGER, MILKYWAY & COUCHDOGE (Rare Doge S1E1) - 8200 DOGE (multidispenser) (JR & MW are 2 of the 1st tokens to ever have images associated with them, making them predecessors to the modern-day NFT)

RUNNER - 900 DOGE x 2 (the flagship token of the 1st instance of tokens being used for any sort of gaming, Dogeparty Runner)

GOLDENSHIBE - 1600 DOGE (the most iconic Dogermint token & the first token from 2014 to have new artwork attached to it)

JOLLYROGER - 5250 DOGE

NISSANGTR - 330 DOGE (another Spiller token created around the same time as JOLLYROGER and MILKYWAY)

In addition, Daniel Spiller - creator of JOLLYROGER, MILKYWAY & a bunch of other early image tokens - is selling MILKYWAYs at a price of 1M FLOWCOIN. I myself happened to pick one up yesterday -- now I own almost every Spiller token, which are some of my favorite tokens to collect.