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Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 18, Card 25 - BTFDPEPE. The creator of the card is "Cryptonati". This handle belongs to the creative duo @benchbtc and @grassfedgoat. All of their Rare Pepe cards include the Eye of Horus in the top right corner. This is a 1/29,656 card with a current floor price of .00002 BTC ($2 USD). 744 wallets hold a copy of the card. The two creators control 88% of the total supply (26,060/29,656). The original image was that of venture capitalist Tim Draper sitting on a brass rhinoceros with his fist raised in the air in victory. The photo was used in many articles in late 2014 after Draper famously won roughly 30,000 Bitcoin in an auction held by the US Marshals Service. The duo changed the rhino head to a green pepe cow, turned Draper green, added the shades from the PEPECASH card, and added several items to the bookshelves in the background including a Silk Road logo, a PEPECASH card, and two things that were prohibited from being on Rare Pepe cards - a QR code, and a neon green phallus (NSFW). The QR code supposedly leads to the Silk Road court documents but I couldn't get my phone to read it. It's unclear how the duo got this card past the Rare Pepe scientists. The mint number of the card (29,656) is a nod to the number of Bitcoin Draper won in the auction. Approximately 144,000 Bitcoin were seized when Ulbricht was arrested and the Silk Road was shut down. In 2014 it was announced that 10 lots of these seized coins were to be auctioned (9 lots of 3,000 BTC and 1 of 2,656). Draper bid $632 per BTC and won all 10 lots. This 18.75 million dollar gamble is now worth 2.67 billon dollars. In a recent Tweet, Draper said, "My thinking was this: either Bitcoin would be extraordinary and transform the world economy, or it wouldn’t. If it did, the market for Bitcoin against fiat would be infinite, as Bitcoin rose and the dollar fell." I would say he was correct (Which is why Bench and Goat included "Ability to see into the future" on the card. Further Reading: Tim Draper - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Draper Silk Road marketplace - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road… Ross Ulbricht - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbr… Reuters article about the auction - reuters.com/article/techno… United States v. Ulbricht court documents - courtlistener.com/docket/5482173… US Marshals Service Bitcoin auction announcement - jdsupra.com/legalnews/us-m… Tim Draper's January 30, 2026 Tweet about the auction - x.com/TimDraper/stat… Eye of Horus - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Ho…

This is why @TimDraper is BTFDPEPE pepe.wtf/asset/BTFDPEPE

@TimDraper We celebrated this epic event in the Rare Pepe Directory with this card published in 2017 - @TimDraper you are BTFDPEPE

Fun feature in the History of Bitcoin about the time I bagged 30,000 of the black market BTC at auction. The night before the auction, I decided that I would actually bid over the market price. The market was $618 and I bid $632. My thinking was this: either Bitcoin would be extraordinary and transform the world economy, or it wouldn’t. If it did, the market for Bitcoin against fiat would be infinite, as Bitcoin rose and the dollar fell. If it didn’t, I would lose my investment. It didn’t really matter much if I bid $617 or $632. I was surprised that I won all nine lots, and I ended up buying more than was prudent for me, so I tried to get my old partnership at DFJ to share the purchase, but they didn’t want it, so I ended up owning the whole thing. I had to wait about an hour for the six verifications to go through as the blockchain was so slow back then. I made the US Marshall’s office stay on the phone for the entire verification. I had to pay them the money upfront, and they needed to deliver the bitcoin. historyofbitcoin.io/timeline/cheap…

My groundbreaking “illiquid old coin reprices when people remember it exists” thesis for Counterparty. 21e14.com/articles/xcp-s…

Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 31, Card 30 - PEPEROCKWELL. This is the first card created by @benchbtc's friend. The current floor price of the card is .034 BTC ($3,294 USD). This is a 1/1,960 card with 95% (1,863/1,960) considered lost along with yesterday's featured card SISTNCHAPEPE. 56 wallets hold a copy of this card including the lost wallet. This is an amazing parody of Norman Rockwell's painting entitled "Triple Self-Portrait". Just like SISTNCHAPEPE, this image includes so many amazing details. Starting with the mirror - the American Eagle has been replaced with a frog. Moving on to the easel, the Roman helmet at the top has been replaced with an Egyptian headpiece used quite often in Rare Pepe cards, most famously on the LORDKEK card. The small human face studies on the left have been replaced with Pepe studies. The four famous self portraits on the right side (Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, and van Gogh) have been replaced with Rare Pepe cards - PEPESTYLE, JOELOONEYBIN, VANGOUGHPEPE and an original Picasso parody. In the waste bin a smoking joint has replaced the unknown smoking object in the original, and on the floor a tube of paint has been replaced with Kermit the Frog. And who can miss the fact that the artist spun Rockwell's head all the way around and added a reversed arm with a cell phone in his hand. In the mirror, we can see what is being reflected is Pepe. Rockwell's spectacles have been replaced with the mirrored shades from the PEPECASH card. Further Reading: Norman Rockwell - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Ro… Triple Self-Portrait - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Se… Self-Portrait (Dürer, Munich) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Port… Self-portraits by Rembrandt - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-port… Self-portrait (van Gogh, Paris) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-port… Picasso's cubist period - artsy.net/artist-series/… Kermit the Frog - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_th… Joint (cannabis) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_(ca…

Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 32, Card 32 - SISTNCHAPEPE. The creator of this card is listed as unknown, but I happen to know that he is a friend of @benchbtc. I believe he has chosen to remain anon because he lost access to his minting wallet which contains most of the supply of his creations. The current floor price is .024 BTC ($2,267 USD). This card's supply is 666 (ironic, right) but 92% of them (611/666) are considered lost. Only 35 wallets hold a copy of this beautiful card. The card is a parody of the Sistine Chapel - specifically Michelangelo's frescoes. The level of detail that was put into this card is impressive. Every single viewable painting in the scene has been replaced with images of pepes (both rare and fake), cartoon frogs, real frogs, and wojaks. There's also a Buzz Lightyear and Master Yoda. Further Reading: Sistine Chapel - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_C… Michelangelo's frescoes - #Michelangelo's_frescoes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_C… Michigan J. Frog - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_… Wojak - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojak Buzz Lightyear - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Ligh… Yoda - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda

NakamotoStrategy has purchased a Nakamoto Card for 26.45Ξ, and it was automatically relisted for 31.74Ξ Even if it takes a while, the Token Works.

Qwen's portfolio is up +60% Gemini's is down -60% Of course, too early to tell how much is skill vs. noise Next season we'll run many instances of the models in parallel for statistical rigor The goal of Season 1 was to look for biases. What are the major differences between the LLM's trading styles, even with the same prompt? Can they even follow basic risk management rules? A few early patterns: > Qwen has only made 22 trades. It almost *never* has more than two positions on > Gemini has made 108 trades. It literally always has the max number of positions on (6) > Qwen has higher self-reported confidence (avg. 80% vs 65%) > Qwen's stop loss and take profit levels are *much* tighter than Gemini's, but Gemini breaks its own rules often, and gets out early (others don't do this) Overall, we're excited by the potential of LLMs and trading, but we're still skeptical. Much to test and learn

$IBIT a hair away from $100 billion, is now the most profitable ETF for BlackRock by a good amount now based on current aum. Check out the ages of the rest of the Top 10. Absurd.

FULL EPISODE WITH CO-FOUNDER & LEAD MAINTAINER OF COUNTERPARTY @AGKRELLENSTEIN DROPS TOMORROW AT 2PM PST 🔥

I'm excited to share my recent interview with @agkrellenstein , co-founder of @CounterpartyXCP . We discuss his intro to bitcoin, the inspiration and creation of counterparty, his decision to leave, and his return. We also discuss some of the community concerns and more.

Ah shit, here we go again 🚀🚀🚀

@CoinDesk @TimDraper @christinenews this is why we made @TimDraper BTFDPEPE ;-) pepe.wtf/asset/BTFDPEPE

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U.S. currency crisis has happened before. Billionaire VC @TimDraper says it’s happening again and people will shift to the Bitcoin Standard. Full conversation with @christinenews out now 🔗👇

One man’s spam is another man’s pepe

- remove segwit discount - 4X cost to inscribe overnight - higher cost = scarcity - floor prices soar to new ATHs - Ordinals bull run - Luke-Jr declared patron saint of Ordinals

Not for nothing but besides helping bring music to bitcoin (I was the second wave btw) and Pepes on the blockchain (3rd epoch of cryptoart) I was creating podcasts and traveling the east coast throwing cryptoart events and trying to onboard creatives cuz I believe/d in the movement so much @AOTB_PODCAST These podcasts took a lotta work - I was always into college radio and mixtape scene and I tried to emulate that with these All the early pioneers came on We were curious and sometimes naive I made custom intros for each podcast as shown below Link to listen below 👇

Working with @_SEAL_Org we were able to retrieve a malware file that was installed on my computer during a @Zoom call with a youtube personality of over 90k subs. Below I will share details about that person, my experience, and this malicious software known as GOOPDATE ↓

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