Buterin Cards
2,015 people didn't mint an image of Vitalik Buterin. They uploaded it, chunk by chunk, onto Ethereum itself.
Card of the Day
Card #889
Incentives
In order to have a decentralised database, you need to have security. In order to have security, you need to have incentives.
- Quote
- 1.49%
- Palette
- Earthen Tones
- Direction
- Diagonal
- Phase
- Blue Chroma
- Icons
- 2
1 in 67
1 in 6
1 in 2
positional, not random
the miner's 24th card, not random
1 in 792 · rank 1,249/2,015
- Owner
- 0x9888…90d1
held since Dec 3, 2023
- Mint
- 0x31b4…43cf
Dec 1, 2023 · 0.142 ETH fee · 6,474 bytes
Market
Loading…
- 2,015
- Cards
- 12.6 MB
- Mined on-chain
- 319
- Miners
- 502
- Holders
- …
- Floor price
Lineage
Bitcoin had the Nakamoto Card.Ethereum has the Buterin Card.
In September 2016 a hand-drawn Pepe wearing Satoshi's face became the first Rare Pepe: 300 copies of one picture, issued on Bitcoin through Counterparty. Seven years later, 319 wallets mined its Ethereum answer: 2,015 cards, one calldata chunk at a time.
| Trait | ||
|---|---|---|
| Honours | Satoshi Nakamoto, as Pepe | Vitalik Buterin |
| Chain | Bitcoin, via Counterparty | Ethereum mainnet |
| Token | Counterparty asset RAREPEPE · Rare Pepe · Series 1, Card 1 | ERC-721 VITALIK · 0x5726…2e89 |
| Born | Sep 8, 2016 · Bitcoin block 428,919 | Apr 7, 2023 · block 16,998,945, mined Apr 9, 2023 to Dec 1, 2023 |
| Supply | 300 issued · 298 remain (as of Aug 2026) | 2,015 · every one mined |
| Copies | One picture, 300 identical copies | 2,015 one-of-ones: phase, scan, quote, palette, direction, seed |
| Artwork | Off-chain: the on-chain record is just a URL to a web server | On-chain: 12.6 MB of JPEG + HTML/SVG in 2,015 SSTORE2 contracts |
| Motion | Static: one 400 × 560 JPEG | Dynamic: generative WebGL rays, seeded by each card |
| Made by | One wallet, one issuance transaction | JPEG mining: 319 wallets over 237 days (279.6 ETH in gas) |
| Creators | Mike (@MyRarePepe) | @Xatarrer (JPEG & code) · @PawelDudko (rays) |
Nakamoto Card artwork © its creator, shown here for comparison: the 2016 Rare Pepe Directory image, as served for RAREPEPE on tokenscan. The Buterin card is #2,015, the last one mined, captured from the same on-chain viewer the card page runs; contract on Etherscan.
Explore
Browse, filter, and search all 2,015 cards.
Replay the Mine
The story of the upload, chunk by chunk.
Rays Lab
Play with the generative light every card is minted with.
Pulse
Live floor price, rarity odds, and the numbers behind the mine.
Memes
The mine, as the internet saw it: 30 community memes.
The Lounge
Holders and miners, one room. Sign a message with your wallet; anyone can read.