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Card #996

Theatrical

Is it necessarily a bad thing if a protocol optimizes a little bit for being theatrical? Thinking about Bitcoin's sudden halvings every 4 years, as opposed to the smooth exponential decay curve that a mathematician would have made.

Vitalik Buterin
Quote
2.91%

1 in 34

Palette
Earthen Tones

1 in 6

Direction
Horizontal

1 in 4

Phase
Red Chroma

positional, not random

Icons
0

the miner's 40th card, not random

1 in 810 · rank 1,215/2,015

Owner
0xde36…a326

held since Jan 12, 2026

Mint
0x31b4…43cf

Dec 1, 2023 · 0.166 ETH fee · 6,554 bytes

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Provenance

Mint transaction
0xbb26…a803
Block & date
18,692,821 · Dec 1, 2023
Payload

card payload: 6,554 bytes

collection payload at mint: 6,510,767 bytes (on-chain payload progress 49.30%)

Chunk kind

jpeg

this card's payload is part of the progressive JPEG scan.

SSTORE2 pointer
0x9c57…9947
Visible since
this card's image completed when card #1010 was mined
Seeds

on-chain seed 3211193503

render seed 69147562771 (drifted 36 PRNG calls, quirk of the viewer)

Activity

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On-chain transfers

  • Mint 0x0000…00000x31b4…43cfDec 1, 2023
  • Transfer 0x31b4…43cf0xb11d…20b1Dec 1, 2023
  • Transfer 0xb11d…20b10xde36…a326Jan 12, 2026

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