Buterin Cards

Pulse

The collection, by the numbers.

Every figure below traces back to the chain: mint receipts, the contract's own threshold tables, and the current owner set. Live marketplace data is clearly badged when it isn't.

Cards
2,015
Miners
319
Owners
502
Uploaded on-chain
12.6 MB
Mint gas
3.397B
Mint fees
279.58 ETH

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Deep dive

Trait distribution

Observed counts against the contract's exact on-chain odds, plus the two traits that were never random at all.

Quote: random, exact odds

All 45 quotes, most minted first. The faint bar is what the contract's exact odds predict, so the gaps are luck.

ObservedExpected (fair on-chain odds)
Alfalfa79 (exp 66)Pluralist72 (exp 65)Sound69 (exp 68)Paradox of Diversity67 (exp 62)Beware67 (exp 67)Legitimate66 (exp 57)Freedom63 (exp 63)Theatrical62 (exp 59)Reminder62 (exp 64)Blockchain61 (exp 60)Elliptic Brains60 (exp 53)Order59 (exp 55)
Show the remaining 33 quotes
2017 Dec 1358 (exp 50)Credibly Insane55 (exp 46)Nope51 (exp 56)Fundamentalism50 (exp 41)Exponential50 (exp 47)Blockchain Centrist50 (exp 49)Metaverse50 (exp 61)Asian Fusion48 (exp 48)E-God47 (exp 45)Buterin's Law47 (exp 52)Programmable45 (exp 43)Revolution44 (exp 36)Signal43 (exp 42)🦄 That Darn Rock38 (exp 27)Slippery Slope Fallacy38 (exp 51)Social Capital38 (exp 54)Currency & Protocol36 (exp 33)Abnormal35 (exp 34)Scripter35 (exp 44)Dub34 (exp 39)🦄 Jason32 (exp 28)Paradoxical32 (exp 32)Cross-platform32 (exp 38)🦄 Humanton28 (exp 26)Institutional28 (exp 35)🦄 Ultra-Sound Money27 (exp 29)Sourceful25 (exp 31)Incentives24 (exp 30)Peer-to-peer24 (exp 37)🦄 WoW23 (exp 21)🦄 The Hard Forkoooooor23 (exp 23)🦄 Bitcoiner19 (exp 24)🦄 Weeeeeeee!19 (exp 25)

Phase: not random

Positional, not chance: phase is determined by tokenId order.

Pencil Drawing99Black & White172Grey Shades262Blue Chroma410Red Chroma376Resolution696

Palette: random, exact odds

ObservedExpected (fair on-chain odds)
Oceanic Twilight371 (exp 383)Earthen Tones363 (exp 343)Calm Coastline286 (exp 302)Warm Sunset256 (exp 262)Tropical Skies212 (exp 222)Mystic Blossoms211 (exp 181)Oceanic Contrast129 (exp 141)Autumn Breeze99 (exp 101)Enchanted Forest65 (exp 60)Vibrant Spectrum23 (exp 20)

Direction: random, exact odds

ObservedExpected (fair on-chain odds)
Horizontal511 (exp 504)Vertical536 (exp 504)Diagonal968 (exp 1008)

Icon count: not random

Mining streak, not chance: a miner's icon count is their prior mint count % 3.

No icons8231 icon6342 icons558

Ownership

Holder stats

Cards per owner

1 card2612-4 cards1585-9 cards4810+ cards35
Never traded
438 cards
still with the original miner
Median holding time
2y 255d
as of the latest transfer in the data

Diamond hands: longest current holds

CardOwnerHeld for
#10xa686…d7333y 127d
#20xa686…d7333y 127d
#30xa686…d7333y 127d
#40x876d…1b3a3y 127d
#50x66a2…51e83y 127d

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Mining era

Mints per day

April 9 to December 1, 2023: 237 days, one unmistakable spike.

01004009001,610y-axis: √ scale (compressed to keep ordinary days visible next to the spike)
Hover or focus a day for its exact count.The takeover day → full story in Replay the Mine

Timeline notes

  1. Apr 9, 2023Mining opens. Card #1 is mined and the Pencil Drawing phase begins. From here every mint writes one more chunk of the collection's progressive JPEG onto Ethereum.
  2. Apr 12, 2023Black & White opens. Phase 1 starts at card #100, and 89 cards are mined that day: the busiest day of the whole mint except the last one. (@Xatarrer, Apr 12 2023)
  3. Apr 18, 2023Prize split announced. Mining stops being winner takes all: once every card is mined, Inscription #3045 goes to auction, with 20 percent of the proceeds to the top miner and 80 percent split among the top five in proportion to kilobytes uploaded. The bytes race now has table stakes. (@Xatarrer, Apr 18 2023)
  4. Sep 6, 2023Grey Shades opens. Phase 2 starts at card #272, after a long lull. The 146 days from April 13 to September 5 produced 148 cards between them, and 105 of those days had no mint at all. The creator chipped in the final black and white mints himself to push the phase over the line. (@Xatarrer, Sep 6 2023)
  5. Dec 1, 2023Mined out in one day. At 14:44 UTC the collector VonMises14 tweets the project to his followers, and the remaining supply mints out in under four hours: 1,606 cards, four fifths of the collection, in a single day. Blue Chroma, Red Chroma and Resolution all open within that window, and for about three hours Buterin Cards is Ethereum's largest gas consumer at 13.1 percent of all network gas. (@VonMises14, Dec 1 2023) (The Block, Dec 1 2023)
Show all 68 mint days as a table
DateMintsGas usedFees
Apr 9, 20231830,338,4500.612 ETH
Apr 10, 2023915,163,5130.304 ETH
Apr 11, 202311,694,6220.035 ETH
Apr 12, 202389149,840,7273.478 ETH
Apr 13, 20231118,324,0360.572 ETH
Apr 14, 202311,670,0880.038 ETH
Apr 15, 2023914,956,5190.347 ETH
Apr 16, 202358,333,8870.267 ETH
Apr 17, 202323,339,4710.085 ETH
Apr 22, 202311,669,8460.053 ETH
Apr 25, 202311,667,4500.056 ETH
Apr 26, 202311,674,4320.059 ETH
May 27, 202346,668,4090.162 ETH
May 28, 202346,641,5460.150 ETH
May 29, 202311,660,3910.039 ETH
Jun 4, 202311,659,6700.032 ETH
Jun 12, 202334,980,0740.072 ETH
Jun 14, 202311,659,8310.025 ETH
Jun 15, 202311,660,4300.023 ETH
Jun 21, 202334,981,3010.070 ETH
Jun 22, 202311,660,3820.024 ETH
Jun 24, 202323,335,3480.039 ETH
Jun 25, 202346,669,5920.085 ETH
Jun 26, 2023711,823,0290.154 ETH
Jun 27, 202335,043,2570.062 ETH
Jun 29, 202311,695,7410.031 ETH
Jul 1, 202335,043,4340.070 ETH
Jul 2, 202346,738,7330.086 ETH
Jul 9, 20231525,330,8320.624 ETH
Jul 10, 202346,782,3710.105 ETH
Jul 12, 2023711,781,8480.193 ETH
Jul 14, 202311,680,6880.033 ETH
Jul 15, 202346,724,5120.092 ETH
Jul 16, 202311,681,1040.024 ETH
Jul 17, 202311,680,6960.023 ETH
Jul 18, 20231118,505,7910.250 ETH
Jul 22, 2023813,449,2450.270 ETH
Jul 23, 202346,721,1450.118 ETH
Jul 24, 202346,723,5700.093 ETH
Jul 30, 202335,042,2890.075 ETH
Aug 4, 202335,042,6870.069 ETH
Aug 5, 202335,058,3510.077 ETH
Aug 6, 202311,681,0870.021 ETH
Aug 7, 202311,681,3790.024 ETH
Aug 14, 202335,042,8240.057 ETH
Sep 6, 2023915,098,4810.160 ETH
Sep 8, 202311,684,6190.018 ETH
Sep 21, 20231016,703,6540.203 ETH
Sep 22, 202311,684,6150.022 ETH
Sep 23, 202335,010,8000.038 ETH
Sep 24, 20231016,731,0580.113 ETH
Sep 26, 202323,355,5880.037 ETH
Sep 27, 202346,680,1470.042 ETH
Sep 28, 2023610,022,5360.073 ETH
Sep 29, 202311,670,5040.018 ETH
Sep 30, 2023915,096,0730.096 ETH
Oct 1, 20231423,564,7390.138 ETH
Oct 2, 202335,046,3520.032 ETH
Oct 3, 202323,377,9940.038 ETH
Oct 4, 202335,047,1970.029 ETH
Oct 5, 20232033,652,7480.200 ETH
Oct 6, 202323,378,1540.019 ETH
Oct 7, 202323,362,4530.017 ETH
Oct 8, 2023915,133,6200.085 ETH
Oct 9, 20231118,495,6420.118 ETH
Oct 10, 20232033,956,8470.176 ETH
Oct 11, 202323,427,5610.022 ETH
Dec 1, 20231,6062,709,421,545268.702 ETH

Archive

Who mined the cards

319 addresses mined the 2,015 cards. Most of the largest totals were built on December 1, 2023, when the remaining supply was mined out in a few hours, so read this as a record of mint volume rather than a ranking of anything else.

RankMinerCardsBytes minedFees paidIcon streak
10x08c1…0f230x08c1…0f231631.0 MB23.41 ETH
20x985a…d8c30x985a…d8c31581.0 MB28.51 ETH
30xd8a7…d1700xd8a7…d1701410.9 MB23.19 ETH
40x0000…32620x0000…32621120.7 MB19.72 ETH
50x4dbd…f25a0x4dbd…f25a600.4 MB11.38 ETH
60x984b…4dad0x984b…4dad560.3 MB9.13 ETH
70xee0e…88150xee0e…8815450.3 MB9.49 ETH
80x31b4…43cf0x31b4…43cf440.3 MB6.76 ETH
90xf581…bd5b0xf581…bd5b440.3 MB0.45 ETH
100xa485…46880xa485…4688420.3 MB0.89 ETH
Show ranks 11 to 25
RankMinerCardsBytes minedFees paidIcon streak
110xd5f2…44380xd5f2…4438420.3 MB0.95 ETH
120x3e5a…b5160x3e5a…b516350.2 MB7.14 ETH
130xa686…d7330xa686…d733340.2 MB0.73 ETH
140x7619…1fe10x7619…1fe1340.2 MB4.70 ETH
150xffbb…7cb10xffbb…7cb1330.2 MB6.29 ETH
160x90b3…069c0x90b3…069c210.1 MB4.44 ETH
170x63a0…a90c0x63a0…a90c210.1 MB4.32 ETH
180x5166…9df90x5166…9df9200.1 MB4.27 ETH
190x9142…51160x9142…5116180.1 MB3.71 ETH
200xdd04…2df20xdd04…2df2180.1 MB0.36 ETH
210xf600…1ed20xf600…1ed2180.1 MB2.53 ETH
220x2b78…dab80x2b78…dab8170.1 MB0.45 ETH
230x7c95…c45d0x7c95…c45d160.1 MB2.17 ETH
240x3615…4ee70x3615…4ee7150.1 MB2.77 ETH
250x6b62…c4850x6b62…c485150.1 MB2.17 ETH