CENTS trait council

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jwphase retweeted
my uncle works for cryptography and says you can play as Reptile
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🚨🚨🚨🚨 SOVRN HAS BEEN HACKED. DO NOT INTERACT 🚨🚨🚨🚨
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🕳️ I asked Claude today to scan all 10,000 CENTS to count how many had quietly slipped out of circulation. I expected 5. We found 25 🤯 – some frozen for nearly two years, inside the cold storage of Kraken, Fidelity and Coinbase Prime. Patient zero: a matched pair of 1971 pennies, #467 and #1920 – sold in March 2024, swept into a whale’s 199 BTC wallet six months later, untouched since. Two 1971s, were the first CENTS the chain swallowed. What an irony! 🙈 None of these wallets know they hold art. Exchanges and custodians see only fungible BTC, never the inscription on a particular sat – so CENTS ride out as loose change and freeze.
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Replying to @artonchain0x
The performance of value doesn’t stop when the Cent leaves the stage, it shifts from motion to stasis. Five Cents boarded a 578 BTC freight train straight into an exchange’s cold wallet and are now performing stillness: kryostasis! Not a flaw in the artwork. A scene in it. Nobody scripted it, which is rather the point.
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wild Bitcoin forensics 🕵️‍♀️ this is a tale of tracking down and cataloging Cent sats that have been "trapped" in payment UTXOs and of a new layer of presence on cents vision
New on cents-vision: The Void – a new home for the CENTS that get swallowed by the machine. It started with a false alarm. I run a small on-chain detector that watches every CENT change hands and catches the sales the marketplaces miss – offer-accepts and cross-platform trades that never show up in any feed. Yesterday afternoon it flagged a „sale” for nearly 100 BTC. Nobody pays 100 BTC for a handful of CENTS (yet! 😜), so instead of trusting it, we opened the transaction. It wasn’t a sale at all. It was five Cents – #20, #60, #1859, #7061 and #8086 – being swallowed whole by an exchange. The transaction moved 578 BTC across three inputs and nineteen outputs, with not a single inscription-safe output among them: a major exchange sweeping its own wallets, and five Cents just riding along in the sats it happened to spend. Collateral! We followed them. All five landed together in one 300 BTC cold-storage output, and the inputs traced back to a hot wallet that has cycled more than 780,000 BTC in its lifetime – a top-tier exchange. Somewhere upstream a collector had deposited these coins, and „the machine” simply ate them. They are not lost. They sit in that wallet, fully intact and fully spendable – by an exchange that has no idea it is holding a piece of the collection. But they cannot be listed, cannot be traded, and cannot move on their own. They have been cancelled out of circulation. I started calling that state „voided“ – present on-chain, but null in practice. The real danger is the next move. The day that big output is spent by a wallet with no regard for inscriptions, a CENT could leave as change to a random withdrawal – and that is how ordinals actually die. For now these five are simply benched: about 0.05 % of the whole collection, frozen in place. So we built them a home. „The Void” is a new page that collects every Cent this happens to. For each one it shows the wallet now holding it, the size of the UTXO it is trapped in, the transaction that took it there, and the date it slipped in – every detail linking out to mempool so you can verify each step yourself. A matching Voided badge now appears on the Cents’s detail page. The new tool finds them on its own. A Cent whose holding output is bundled with real Bitcoin (0.01 BTC or more) is not being held as a collectible, and the detector flags it automatically; a weekly scan keeps the page current. Each voided Cent carries one of three states – voided while it is trapped, escaped if it ever returns to a normal wallet, and consumed if it is spent away for good – so if one of these five ever claws its way back out, the Void will be the first to show it and I will definitely let you know if that ever happens …
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jwphase retweeted
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> PUBLIC_SNARKLIST: LIVE_ // zcash:native > zksnarks.net/snarklist
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We got 15 WL spots for @sovrnart collectors 👊👊 It's the 1st NFT collection on @Zcash, which I find interesting. The whitepaper isn't out yet, but will be soon, so DYOR with it. But yeah I'm intrigued. and I like privacy 🛡️ raffle is in the Numismatists discord, link below. For both Bitcoin and ETH collectors. shoutout to @blod_nft for hooking it up
Ordinals changed Bitcoin forever. ZecBit is building the next NFT era on Zcash, private by default. It starts with a launchpad and marketplace powered by shielded zcash:native. No smart contracts needed. Site live. First mission unlocked. 🔒 zecbit.io Complete it and get in early.
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jwphase retweeted
designs by Kohei Sugiura.
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jwphase retweeted
meet the CENTS bot 🤖 here to help navigate the collection bcs it is indeed a vast bird's nest of concept, lore, traits, and history find the bot in the Numismatist's discord, embedded on the cents vision site, and or on its own page it's a great tool for introducing people to the project, navigating traits and rarities, delving into the underlying concepts give it a share! inspired by the @normiesART bot, which @dopemind10 showed us
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jwphase retweeted
Set questions? Let us know on the TL or tag @ council in the discord. 👊
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Sovrn & the artist's estate are dedicated to establishing Chang's work as canon, and it's well on its way. It's been incredible to see the love for this project, the tools that the community has built for it, the extraordinarily rigorous cataloging by the Trait Council, the 6-month retrospective at China's leading contemporary arts institution, seeing Chang contextualized among the canon of systems artists in the press, witnessing people discover his work every day. The process of forming the artist's estate as a legal entity is finally being settled, and we're working with them to bring the retrospective to Europe & the US, as well as finding museum placements for Chang's body of work. The reception so far has been amazing, and we're going full steam ahead. If you're new to the project, you can learn about it in the thread below, as well as on the project site.
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jwphase retweeted
if you don't know it yet soon you will
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join us on Monday to talk traits, Bitcoin Ordinal news & updates on CENTS's becoming xitter.cf/i/spaces/1yKAPMWaLqnxb
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jwphase retweeted
Join us for an Anniversary Gathering. We'll be talking about the exhibition at UCCA Beijing, the new features on the traits site, the artist estate and its stewardship, the present and future of ordinals, and of the world. See you there 👊👊 xitter.cf/i/spaces/1vJpPrwNrmOJE

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jwphase retweeted
coming soon: 👊 rarity rankings 👊 marketplace integration amazing work laying the ground for all of this by Martin, Pac, the Trait Council & the CENTS community
Nice update on cents.vision 👇🏼 Trait ranking logic on detail page is now improved: we grouped all patinas above the other community traits and ordered from full to significant to notable (so the list is consistent and meaningful now). Orange ranks between significant and Notable. Maybe you will have to empty your browser cache and reload to see the change. Shoutout to @pactalom for implementing. 🥳
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New to CENTS? Start here 👇🏼👇🏼
a guide to CENTS by Rutherford Chang writings, traits, galleries, exhibitions, community 🧵
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Replying to @jwphase
Works, for Mint Years, too
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The CENTS Traits Lab is LIVE >> and it comes with the Traits Atlas. If you’ve been wondering what we’ve been building for the last two years: this is it. Built to explore the collection from different angles, compare CENTS, discover patterns, and learn the surface language Cent by Cent. cents.vision
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jwphase retweeted
Rutherford Chang: Hundreds and Thousands opens this Saturday at UCCA Beijing, China's leading contemporary art institution a retrospective of Chang's major works, curated by Philip Tinari and Aki Sassamoto. The exhibition occurs during the anniversary of Rutherford Chang's passing, and it is heartening to see his legacy honored with care and grace. We are also proud to see Bitcoin Art presented at this high cultural level with CENTS. Find details from UCCA below. We will be sharing images from Beijing in the coming days. Look out as well for an article in @BitcoinMagazine by @stenreiss about Rutherford Chang's art and practice. And a new Trait Explorer will be released in tandem with the opening, featuring a comprehensive catalog of the patinas, markings, and special features of the Cents, as well as a guide to the collection and critical writing.
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