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Honored to be a part of this beautiful piece of blockchain history.

The Next Steps: Fragments Claim & Reveal The past few days have been incredible, they have been intense, humbling, and full of energy. We’ve seen the highs, the chaos, and most of all, the support from everyone walking this road together. Now, as the dust settles, here’s how the Fragments journey continues Dedicated Mint-Ends at 9:00 CET Oct 19th - The final moments for the most loyal Breezers, the last chance to mint with 20% discount, after this phase all mints will be at the final auction price Mint Re-open: 9:05 CET Oct 19th - The Mint will re-open at the set price of 0.096 until sell out - Claims for the difference paid during initial public auction open Burn Claim & Trading Open 21st of October - Claim for all breeze burned in the previous window will open - Trading will begin for the collection REVEAL GOES LIVE- 1 hour after trading opens at - These fragments shall begin to join together to give you a glimpse into the world of the lonely road Fragment your V1's 24th of October - 2 for 1 burn of midnight Breeze to Fragments goes live indefinitely This journey is far from over! We keep walking, we keep creating, and we keep Breezing

@bryanbrinkman Oof, I hope you have a quick and safe recovery!

Spent the last 24 hours at the hospital. Went in with abdomen pain, left without a gallbladder. Lesson: if something feels off get it checked out.

Why did we write to ourselves? And what does it mean now that the Tatami Room has opened? Let me explain the threads that connect Distant Summer Rain, the Tatami Room, and what’s coming next. 👇👇👇

The Tatami Room has opened. 100 travelers may enter. Where timelines converge, echoes linger, and forgotten words wait to be found. Step inside… before the wind carries you away. 🍃

While much of this space sleeps , chasing coins, claiming culture while forgetting why they came here , I’ve been building. Not for noise. But for connection. To remind you of that spark you felt when you first arrived here. That sense of wonder. I’m doing this alone. No publisher. No big names behind me. Just me, trying to build something that matters. And that matters because if I can do it, you can too. This space was never meant to be about luck or permission. It was meant to be about showing up. Creating. Believing. Tonight, I’m opening The Tatami Room. Maybe it won’t be loud. Maybe not everyone will understand. But I’m stepping forward anyway. Because that’s what artists do. We build scared. We build uncertain. We build anyway. So if you’ve been with me this far , walk a little further. Check it out. Register. Bookmark. Comment. Engage. Even the smallest gesture makes a difference. See you tonight. 18:00 CET. Link in bio.

Giving a good buddy punk mr @dutchtide a shout here for curating a fun interactive mint experience for @midnightbreezey. The experience is called Distant Summer Rain and while it was gated to an initial 100 invited individuals, it is now open to public to partake. - Free mint (soulbound token) - Performance art onchain - postman.midnightbreeze.io/rainMint

@dutchtide Yugen

Every storm has an origin. This is mine. The tide that shaped me 🌊

Tonight I will "ｒｅｖｅａｌ" And to those whom have been invited. Let the curtains go open. And the challenge begin.

@dutchtide @midnightbreezey Your work only seems to ascend. Excelsior!

Yesterday’s space was a big one. Even if I kinda messed up. It wasn't big because of the numbers (484 tuned in), but because it was my first real step toward making @midnightbreezey real. 3.5 years of work , finally taking form. It was scary. Emotional. Real. I havent hosted a space in almost 2 years. And yet, you all showed up. That means the world. What I saw was beautiful: No tribalism. No hype farming. Just people from all walks of life, connected by something I can only describe as, The Breeze. We all walk the lonely road. Searching for meaning in a chaotic world. @illumanbeing @0x_jonny @0x_Joe @tinoch @chawweiyang @kaitodan , you shared what that meant to you. That was the goal: real connection through experience. Now… here’s where I messed up. I wanted to explain what’s coming next, but I got caught up listening, hosting, keeping things flowing. I forgot the part I was supposed to say. So here it is: From the start, Midnight Breeze has been about a road. One only you can walk. A moment nobody can take from you. Some of you are here because your name appeared on The List. You’re wondering: why me? Because your presence reflects what Breeze stands for: Nostalgia. Curiosity. Resilience. Vision. But this isn’t a trophy, it’s a challenge. The List will evolve. Some names will hold. Others will fade. It depends on how you walk the road. You’re here to help others find their way. To read the messages. To reflect. To lead. Soon, you’ll be asked to leave something of yourself behind. Something that will live inside the Breeze. And in between all of this… I might just doxx. So keep your eyes open. Stay breezy. Stay bullish. We’re just getting started.

🤔 "In one instance, a large rai being transported by canoe and outrigger was accidentally dropped and sank to the sea floor. Although it was never seen again, everyone agreed that the rai must still be there, so it continued to be transacted as any other stone." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

@soby0x They make non-alc Sapporo, IPA, Wit, and other decent beer varieties that taste pretty good. There are even non-alc spirits now, like gin. They are great options for socializing.

i want to quit drinking but tbh it’s kinda hard when it’s so socially engrained any tips?

I can absolutely empathize, there was no perfectly correct choice, and any choice would create "artifacting" that would eventually cause one problem of another. - I prefer to take the project as a whole, warts & all. It's a two headed basilisk; whichever way you look at it, it janks you in some way.

Ah yeah I do remember them saying that they felt like any choice they made, if they waited even a little bit longer, gas prices would have made it untenable. I just relate so hard to the feeling, the bottom of your gut deep in soul feeling, of realizing this thing you had been working on so hard has a fatal flaw.

Today I sold my V2 punk to purchase more V1s. It's becoming clear that the V1/V2 punk argument rests solely on the latter group's ability to brand themselves as "real" through their social network. If the story of the flawed V1 contract were to play out today, duplicating and then airdropping the new collection would be an unacceptable solution. This made all punks 1 of 2s, with V1 punks as the “first editions” of these assets. In all other collectible classes, the earlier editions of something are more sought after. This is also generally true of the scarcer misprint variants of assets - there are far fewer V1s still in circulation. The solution was accepted at the time of the V1 exploit because there were minimal options with which to view onchain assets - what Larva Labs platformed was what everyone got to interact with. With the introduction of third party marketplaces and the V1 wrapping contract, this ceased to be the case. Very few people in the community back in the day had enough foresight to realise that all LL had done was sweep the originals under the rug. The narrative that V2s are in some way superior is defended largely by the snobbish type of collector who judges art only by its price, and has an emotional attachment to the status that owning this asset gives them. They see attempts to discuss the onchain truth of the story as an attack on their gated social group and the sunk cost of their investment. This is ignorance of the provenance uniquely available through the blockchain, and an elitist rejection of another community as a way of preserving capital; they are neither ‘crypto’ nor ‘punk’. Any newcomer to onchain collecting, being exposed to the publicly verifiable and immutable information available surrounding these collections, would judge V1s - at less than 10% the price of the V2s - as the more grounded choice. There are a handful of common counterarguments. V1s are unable to use their original in-contract marketplace because of the exploit, but this experience has been abstracted into existence. The chains of ownership are different as they fork after the V2 airdrop, meaning they have different social networks, but V1s have a nascent community capturing the more historically minded. V1s do not receive the same IP rights as V2s, although onchain PfP IP has proven to be rarely utilized. There are 20,000 punks. The V1 punks are the original cryptopunks that were claimed on June 9th, 2017. The later V2 punks have the backing of their creators and are more well known, benefitting disproportionately from this publicity. This is a fascinating case of art undergoing a literal schism - one collection to serve the will of the artist, and the other becoming inseparable from its foundations, the machine it was built to showcase. This machine will outlive us, and with it, the story of how a failure of imagination led to the burying of the truth of its icons.

@songadaymann @Cryptopathic There was grumbling about it being onchain for sure, Mr703 rage quit because of it and didnt return until years later, taking almost 10% of the supply with him. It definitely shaped the v2 market. But most of us just had to accept it, though we did know the v1s were still there.

I imagine they didn’t want to go that route because of how much extra work it would be - and they didn’t really have the expertise at the time to pull it off. Is my memory correct though that all in all most people were fine with the migration? That’s how I remember it and how Matt and John always talked about it

@songadaymann @Cryptopathic Well, not a wrapper, but a true escrow proxy contract. Wrappers weren't really a thing yet. I believe they didn't opt for the proxy because it would have cost more gas, or maybe that was just the assumption made (been a while).

@songadaymann @Cryptopathic I'd wanted a proxy contract (wrapper), and thought that was the only viable way forward.

@songadaymann @Cryptopathic The intent changed when they changed the project. v1 intent was different from the v2 intent w/bidding (and IP bolted on later off-chain).

@Cryptopathic What about the artist’s intent?

@seanbonner @songadaymann Mr703 too...thats why he disappeared for years and took almost 10% of the supply with him. He was upset and felt it was anathema to the blockchain.

@songadaymann lol! You know me too well! Only a handful of people used the exploit (around 80 trades, Hemba and LL accounting for ~60 of those). The opposition to the migration was more ideological from people like @straybits who felt like it changed the decentralized“you own this” ethos.

See, but this approaches the question of V1 versus V2 from the perspective of somebody making an investment (which **nobody** was at the time!) rather than what it actually was: A community of people partaking in a really fun and interesting experiment. What's hard for me to disentangle is having talked extensively with Matt and John at the time. How horrified they were when they discovered the bug, and then how grateful and relieved they were that like the entire community (from their perspective) agreed to migrate over. It wasn't like “I’m selling you a piece of art and then reminting to sell again!” It's more like, “Oh my God! There's this bug in here that breaks the whole thing! Would you guys be okay if we fixed it?” And everyone (*almost everyone*) was like, “Yeah! That'd be great! We're really into this and we're happy to support you because this is the really fun, interesting experiment and we'd like to see it continue!” Furthermore, as I understand it (and I could be wrong about this and @seanbonner I'm sure will correct me if I am) but from my understanding, the main people at the time who were against migration were folks who had actively used the exploit to essentially rip people off. Like most people, when the bug was discovered, were like, “Whoa! Everyone stop! There’s a bug where if you sell your punk it gets stolen!” But there were some people who were like, “Haha! Now’s my chance to get as many punks as possible!” It’s hard for me to not think of that when I think of v1. So 1. The artists and the community (long before large amounts of money were involved) had ~99% consensus. Now that they are investments, I suppose it makes sense, but it’s important (I think) to remember how it actually went down at the time. And 2. Many of the v1 punks changed hands in a way that is, let’s say, “less than fair”. That will always be part of their provenance. Surely this makes them interesting, but if I were one of the people who got their punk stolen this way, I know I’d be bummed.

@BlackstarXXI @CryptoPunksOG Language and culture is sloppy, but without it the blockchain is incoherent and nothing but scattered zappy bits of metal.

Ok but the blockchain is internationally accessable and there are enough cultures that would naturally count from left to right or even from top to bottom. For me it's a rather sloppy design as the instruction of determining the punk with the number you own could've been in the contract

Why CryptoPunks are a unique📚 The CryptoPunks contracts (V1 and V2) predate the ERC-721 standard and operate differently from modern NFTs. The contract stores a SHA-256 hash of a single image containing all 10,000 Punks, with each token representing the coordinates of a specific Punk in that image. Unlike most modern NFTs, CryptoPunks do not rely on IPFS or other off-chain storage services, avoiding risks related to dependency on external infrastructure. Majority of NFT collections are using IPFS/centralized solutions, and they may face issues in future, such as data inaccessibility, long term maintenance costs, centralized points of failure or data corruption/lost. CryptoPunks mitigate these issues by storing the hash of the composite image directly on-chain, ensuring that is preserved and always verifiable as long as the Ethereum blockchain exists. The actual rendering of the image may rely on external tools, but the hash guarantees immutability and permanence, unlike off-chain systems where data can vanish. Study CryptoPunks linktr.ee/CryptoPunksLEG…