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thanks to the generosity of the CryptoPunks community, the two CryptoPunk #6980 tokens are, after years of separation, united again. tinkering with the programmability of the World Computer is a great honor, and building the punksmarket.eth smart contract one of my most (personally) unexpected creations so far. i don't take it for granted and i strive to treat it with the utmost respect to the underlying medium. i stumbled upon this beautifully simple extension that fixes a 9-year old bug while working on a new auction house for CryptoPunks, but i've been ruminating on this for much longer... CryptoPunks means a great deal to me personally. Reading Matt and John's smart contract over half a decade ago is what first sparked my interest in Solidity and it has become an obsession to keep experimenting with what they have built. thank you CryptoPunks, and thank you Ethereum! ps: i purchased the V1 from @seanbonner - who made all this possible - for a poetic 0.6980 ETH, through the original bugged marketplace contract. the bug attributes sale proceeds to the buyer, not the seller, so it was effectively free. Sean had purchased it for 5.0 ETH from the original claimer Mr703, with the generous contributions from 65 people. ps2: below on the left, token #6980 from the initial CryptoPunks.sol smart contract, claimed on June 17th 2017, and on the right, token #6980 from the fixed CryptoPunksMarket.sol smart contract, redistributed by LarvaLabs on June 22nd 2017. since there is no "official way" of rendering the V1 tokens - the odd rendering of the V1 is a personal choice: i've lovingly called the V1 tokens "broken punks" for years, hence the glitched reinterpretation, and since the canonical 10k CryptoPunks image immutably linked in the smart contracts is transparent, i like to display it on a colorless background. which to me in itself is poetic because punk #6980 is one of the four black and white punks in the entire CryptoPunks collection. ily all and thanks again!

🚨 CryptoPunk V1 #6980 was sold for Ξ5.000 ($10,045) on OpenSea marketplace from: 0x479...0E122 to: burnedpunks.eth Punk profile: v1cryptopunks.com/details/6980 Etherscan: etherscan.io/tx/0x736a51655…