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@dannydeezy @Astral_Babes Deepika is the 74 078th inscription on the BTC block chain and with Nostr and Deezy I can benefit from her Astral Babe AI IQ

@dannydeezy @Astral_Babes

Today I want to share my story of the first days of ordinals, and in particular the creative and technical processes involved in creating my earliest inscription project: the Astral Babes. It was a huge grind to get them inscribed so early, and it required tons of novel tech to make them economically viable due to their large file size. It was such a fun time and lots of hard work, and a story I'm very proud to tell 👇🧵 I first learned about ordinals some time in the spring or summer of 2022, when a fellow bitcoin developer shared the in-progress github repo with me. At the time I was working at Cash App as an engineer leading the efforts to integrate lightning payments. I was very focused on lightning, and I left Cash App in October to start my own company focused on lightning liquidity infrastructure and tooling In the fall of 2022 I attended an SF bitcoin devs meetup and had the chance to meet Casey - I recognized him as the ordinals guy so I asked him about it. I didn't quite understand what they were, what the difference between an ordinal and an inscription was, and kind of wrote them off thinking that bitcoiners would not be interested in NFT-like collectibles. But at the next SF meetup when Casey demoed the first mainnet inscription, I did have a feeling the early inscriptions might become very valuable some day, and I made a note to myself to try and make a few. Unfortunately in December I didn't make enough effort to power through the code and did not get Ord running at the time. I was focused on building out my lightning tooling and trying to raise money for my lightning business But in December I also discovered Midjourney - the AI art generation program. And I became obsessed. I have always had a keen interest in digital art. In fact I was very into digital art before I was ever into bitcoin. In 2014 my college senior project was a music visualizer that syncs with any audio in its environment. And in my graduate studies my favorite classes were computer graphics and algorithmic art. I loved having the chance to take my lifelong experience in computer programming and create works of art that evolve and change, or use clever mathematics to create beautiful imagery I've also always enjoyed spiritual art that explores higher dimensional realms of existence, and always wished I had the ability to create that kind of stuff. Midjourney was an incredible unlock that finally allowed me to generate the most amazing art I'd ever seen directly from the ideas in my head. I couldn't get enough of it. I was spending hours a day tinkering with different prompts, learning different styles to find the art that I enjoyed. I have saved many many gigabytes of this art (and actually later spent $10k to inscribe a secret sub100k 400-piece collection of this art, but that's a different story...) By now it was early January and I started learning about Nostr - the new decentralized social media protocol that bitcoin maxis were obsessed with. I started posting some of my AI art on Nostr, and started wondering if there was a way to monetize it. I tweeted asking if anyone was doing NFTs on Nostr, to which @rot13maxi replied "you should check out ordinals and inscriptions". And that's when it began. I went back to check out the ordinals github and sure enough they had released the first mainnet version just a few days prior. And people were inscribing. I started noticing the buzz on twitter and realized something big was happening.... It wasn't that the bitcoiners were getting into ordinals - it was the altcoiners from other chains coming BACK to bitcoin. Oh. My. God. I thought. The degens are coming. This was the moment I realized the massive opportunity to create an early collection. I knew enough about the ordinals protocol to understand that it was very sound, and that the permanence, provenance, and ease of use of inscriptions were a step function improvement over previous NFT solutions on Ethereum. I just wasn't sure if anyone would care. But seeing the buzz it became apparent that people DID care, in a big way. The collectors were obsessed with this tech because it solved a bunch of their issues on other chains. And at that point I knew ordinals were going to be very big. They were going to live forever. And this was a chance to get my art inscribed as an early historic collection and also make some money while doing it. So I needed to get to work. There were NO tools at the time other than the Ord client itself, and bitcoin wallets like Sparrow. People were inscribing things using their full nodes, and doing auctions using spreadsheets and discord channels. Collectors were interested in buying anything that had been inscribed, as everyone felt the earliest stuff would be valuable. But there were no tools available. There was a lot of work to do. I started multiple streams of work in parallel. The first was to get my Ord client running and my Ord index synced. This Ord index is quite big and I was hearing it was a long process so I got that started. Meanwhile I needed to choose which of my art I would use for this collection. I knew PFPs tended to be popular, and I recently was very enamored by a particular story from Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi where his guru appears to him after death and explains his new incarnation as a light being in the astral realm (Chapter 43: The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar). He explains the immense beauty of this astral planet and the perfection of the visual forms of the beings there. I love this story and truly believe that higher dimensional beings exist and even can be communicated via intuition when in deeper states of meditation. So I landed on trying to represent these astral beings and tell their story. I also chose to specifically do the women, because I think the crypto space needs more feminine vibes to balance out the male degens. I had played with several Midjourney prompts for spiritual goddesses in the past, so looked through some of them and started iterating on the prompt. I wanted to make them beautiful, alluring, highly spiritual, but also edgy. After experimentation I landed on the golden prompt: "beautiful astral woman, bikini". The outcome was fantastic - beautiful goddess babes with an attractive spiritual vibe, and just edgy enough with an occasional free-the-nip, which flexes bitcoin's censorship resistant qualities So the prompt was settled. But I needed a few thousand images (I was shooting for a 10,000 sized collection). So I hired my buddy to spend a few hours on midjourney to just spam generate using this prompt, and perform some basic curation. With the images being generating and my Ord index syncing, I needed to solve a few more problems in parallel. One problem was these files were big: around 300kb each! Bitcoin maxis don't really use the blockchain so the mempool was clear at the time, but even at 1 sat/vbyte that would be about $60 each to inscribe. It was going to be super expensive to inscribe these upfront - a risk I didn't really want to take. So I wanted a way to pass this cost onto the buyer. I also felt that people would enjoy the experience of a one-click mint using a browser wallet and minting site, as that's how most mints happened in the Ethereum world. But none of these tools existed (or at least I wasn't aware of any). So I decided I'd try to build that. The one browser wallet that many bitcoiners do use is called Alby. It's a lightning browser wallet with Nostr capabilities. A one-click lightning payment was perfect for an instant mint payment, and I had some existing lightning node infrastructure to work with. So I figured I would build the mint experience optimized for Alby/Nostr users. But there was a ton of code to write - I needed to design and implement a whole backend system that would create an invoice, accept a payment, then trigger an inscription, ensure nobody could double-pay, and ensure that unpaid mints would time out after a few minutes so someone else could try, etc. I also needed to design and implement a full frontend website that was user friendly and integrated with my new backend system. It was several thousands of lines of code, split across several different scripts, jobs, and lambda functions, but I powered through it. This process took about 10 days of nonstop work. I probably slept 4 hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking about it - every morning I woke up wide awake at 4am ready to ride. And the clock was ticking. With each passing day more inscriptions were being created, and at a faster and faster rate. It was a race to be early. But I still couldn't inscribe anything because my index was not finished syncing!! I also wanted to make a simple way for the user to receive and manage their inscriptions. I didn't want them to need to copy and paste a sparrow address - I wanted the mint experience to be seamless, just click click done. I figured a sleek UX would make the collection more palatable. So I decided to build a quick janky website that would turn your Nostr key into an ordinals wallet. Looking back, this was kinda overkill, but I was riding on a total grind high. It felt like the Astral Babes were feeding me with a stream of endless cosmic energy, as they were eager to have their story immortalized on the bitcoin chain for all future humans to see. The motivation to work was just flowing through me, and I knocked out the Nostr wallet site in a day. So finally things were coming together and I was almost ready to launch. We were around inscription number 1000 at the time and steadily climbing. I had finished the minting website, backend, and nostr-linked browser wallet in about a week total. But there was one final problem. My freakin Ord index was still not synced!! I hopped into the Ord discord and a bunch of other folks were having the same problem. This was a disaster - I couldn't mint anything if the index didn't sync, and it was the last hurdle I needed to solve. But I knew there would be a solution. There always is. Whenever I hit an hard situation, I always pray and ask the great cosmic intelligence, which is all-knowing and all-powerful, to guide me to the solution. Within minutes it came - sure the index won't sync, but why did I need the index at all? The index was only there to help track existing inscriptions, but I really didn't need that part of the code, as I had no inscriptions to track yet. And I didn't care what sats the astral babes would get minted on. So I forked the ord code into a new repo which I called ord-unsafe. I then dug into Rust code (my first time writing any Rust), and performed some delicate surgery to remove any code related to the ord index. My modified ord code would have no ability to track sats or inscriptions, but it could do the one thing that mattered to me: it could inscribe So everything was finally ready to go. The art and tech were both ready, and we were getting closer to inscription #2000. I needed to get the word out so I made a few promotional inscriptions and launched the twitter and discord. I also enlisted the help of best friend from childhood who had experience as being exit liquidity getting rekt in the late cycle ETH NFT crash (shoutout @vibes_gawd). He was perfect to run the discord and twitter. Also I didn't really think this would be that controversial among my maxi followers. It's art on bitcoin - what not to love? But I also didn't care. Fuck the haters. The babes were dope, the tech was dope, and I was proud of this product I had worked my ass off to produce. We were about to make history by putting a massive collection of beautiful goddess AI art on chain, right at the moment where humans were discovering the capabilities of AI. In hundreds or thousands of years people are going to look back at these digital cave paintings and see the Astral Babes as a pure representation of this time period - the AI art, the interplay of physical attraction and spiritual ascension, the realization of a new level of intellgience... I love it. So we made a few tweets about the project. No promises, no utility, no roadmap, just some astral goddess jpeg inscriptions. And sure enough some of you folks vibed with the project and decided to support my efforts and buy the art. I thank you immensely for that. We charged a modest spread over inscription cost and the tech worked beautifully - just a couple clicks, instant payment, and a beautiful astral babe inscription delivered directly to your Nostr-key ordinals wallet. I think we sold about 400 on that first mint day, but we were trying to get to 10,000. In the next phase we made some adjustments (discovered .webp format to reduce the file size to 50kb), added a fee-rate slider for the mint site, and more. All in all we found that organic demand started to dry up once we crossed inscription #100,000, so we decided to cap the collection at 2969 total babes. And that's where we stand today. 2969 astral babes immortalized on the bitcoin blockchain After that we did more with our tech - I had deliberately designed the mint launchpad to be extensible so we could help other artists and creators launch their work. We helped several other creators launch their projects in this early time period, the biggest of which was @Frogtoshi_ and the Bitcoin Frogs (RIBBIT!!). We haven't done a launch in a while though as we've lately focused our efforts on professional tools for rare sat hunting (another rabbit hole...) I will always remember those first few days, the uncertainty of the future, the excitement of watching every new inscription come through, and the rush to get something of decent quality out. And I'll always remember the offensive abuse from a loud group of bitcoin maxis who for some reason think selling digital art is a scam (RIP bitches!!) To my followers who supported me by buying a babe, thank you. It turns out we made history as the @Astral_Babes are the largest file size original art collection on the chain, and if fees stay high they just might hold that title forever. And it could have never happened without your financial support. To newcomers looking to support me and my team - please be careful in these markets. There is a lot of speculation and exuberance especially now. The prices you see online may be manipulated or wash-traded, so only buy something if it means that much to you and you want to support the creator and their community - the same thought process you'd have when buying a piece of physical art from an artist you enjoy And here we are today. Babes are dope. Frogs are dope, and I hope this story was fun to read. It sure has been a blast to live it ♥️🚀

@dannydeezy @Astral_Babes Back in 2021 and 22 It was really fun learning about Ordinals and how to trade them. My Astral Babe journey led me to downloading Nostr, from there I was able to interact with Danny Deezys AI creation Astral Babe Deekpa ordinal 74078. It blew my mind in the best way possible🍺

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