THE LEGEND OF LORDKEK: THE MOST EXPENSIVE DIGITAL CARD IN BITCOIN HISTORY.

THE YEAR JUST TURNED OVER. TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENT. BITCOIN REACHED IT’S 3 YEAR GOAL OF TRYING GET BACK TO OVER 1,000 DOLLARS AND WITHIN ALL THAT TIME A CARD STARTED BECOMING AN UNDERGROUND CRYPTO PHENOMENON AND CURRENTLY WAS TURNED DOWN FOR AN OFFER OF 25,000 DOLLARS. THIS IS THE LEGEND OF LORDKEK, THE MOST EXPENSIVE RAREPEPE CARD IN CRYPTOCURRENCY HISTORY.

THE BEGINNING OF 2017 WAS A VERY TURBULENT YEAR AND THE SOCIAL CLIMATE POLITICALLY IN THE YEAR WAS UGLY AND IS STILL TO THIS DAY. PROTESTS, FIGHTS AND CONSTANT BAITING BY THE MEDIA TO HAVE ANOTHER RACE WAR WAS BEGINNING AND A FEAR OF RUSSIA……RUSSIA,RUSSIA,RUSSIA. IT ALMOST SEEMED LIKE THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT REALLY DIDN’T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT ALL THIS WAS THE “BURIED IN CHARTS” AND CONSTANTLY IN DEVELOPMENT BITCOIN COMMUNITY. I MEAN COULD YOU BLAME THEM? THE TIME WAS OF FINANCIAL VICTORY AND ALSO A 3 YEAR PROVEN ECONOMIC DEBATE WITH A LONG LIST OF ELITIST “MONEY SHOW” TV TALKING HEADS. EVERYONE FROM PETER SCHIFF TO PAUL KRUGMAN SPOKE OF BITCOIN BEING A PHANTOM DREAM OF GRAND TULIP PROPORTIONS. OUR TIME WAS HERE AND NO POLITICAL CRAP COULD STOP IT. THIS WAS THE “FUCK YOU” AND “I TOLD YOU SO” MOMENT WE ALL WERE LOOKING FOR. “TRUST IN THE CODE AND YOU’LL SEE” WAS THE QUOTE I OFTEN USED ALL THE TIME. NOW PEOPLE WERE BEGINNING TO LISTEN.

WHILE SILICON VALLEY YUCCIS AND BASEMENT DWELLING BITCOINERS WERE BECOMING INSTANT MILLIONAIRES SOMETHING ELSE ODD HAPPENED. THE DIGITAL RAREPEPE TRADING CARD PHENOMENON. WHILE EVERYONE WAS LOOKING AT ETHEREUM TO BE THE “BETTER BITCOIN” AND MONERO TO BE THE “TRUE ANONYMOUS” CURRENCY TO REPLACE GRANDFATHER BITCOIN, WE LITERALLY HAD A GLOBAL UNDERGROUND COMMUNITY DEDICATED TO EXPERIMENTING WITH LEARNING HOW TO PRESERVE ASSETS TIED WITH IMAGES ONTO THE BLOCKCHAIN.

THE BEGINNINGS OF THIS TECHNOLOGY STARTED WITH COUNTERPARTY’S DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE. THE CREW AT COUNTERPARTY AT THE TIME DEVELOPED A DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE THAT COULD HARBOR A NEW ECONOMIC TOOL WHERE YOU COULD CREATE AND SQUAT AN ASSET NAME AND ALSO ISSUE A NUMBER OF FINITE TOKENS TO THE ASSET. THIS LED TO STARTUPS LIKE EVERDREAMSOFT EXPERIMENTING WITH THIS AND MAKING FINITE DIGITAL TRADING CARDS FOR THEIR GAMES. “SPELLS OF GENESIS” WAS THE FIRST TRUE PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR THIS NEW WORLD. 4CHAN’S JOKE OF “BUY PEPE” SOON STARTED TO INFILTRATE THIS MEDIUM AND FINALLY ENGAGED ONTO THE COUNTERPARTY EXCHANGE.
AT THE MOMENT OF THIS WRITING THERE ARE OVER 1000 CARDS FROM ARTISTS ALL OVER THE GLOBE REGISTERED ONTO THE RAREPEPE “DIRECTORY.” A KIND OF A DEPOSITORY WHERE THE IMAGES ARE OFFICIALLY STORED AND PRESERVED. FROM THERE THEY ARE TAGGED TO THE ASSETS AND MANY APPS HAVE BEEN BUILT ON TOP TO ALSO TAG THE IMAGES TO THE ASSETS AS WELL. TECHNICALLY THE IMAGES AREN’T REALLY MELTED INTO THE ASSETS THEMSELVES BUT IT’S A GREAT START AND ALSO GOOD FOR CLOSED-IN ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS VIDEO GAMES AND VR WORLDS. PERHAPS IN THE FUTURE SOME OF THESE CARDS COULD BE LIKE OWNING PICASSOS IN VR WORLDS.

AS HUNDREDS OF ASSETS NAMED “PEPE” WERE BEING SQUATTED ON COUNTERPARTY, THERE WAS ONE CREATED THAT CAUSED QUITE A STIR IN THE UNDERGROUND DIGITAL ART WORLD. THE “LORDKEK” CARD WAS CREATED AROUND THE SAME TIME OUR PRESIDENT TOOK OFFICE. THE WHOLE PAST YEAR HAS BEEN AN INTERESTING TIME FOR THIS ART PIECE ITSELF. A DIGITAL ART ENTHUSIAST CREATED THE LORDKEK ASSET IN ONLY A TEN COUNT. WHICH MEANT THAT ONLY TEN WOULD EVER EXIST IN THE WORLD. TO MAKE THINGS MORE INTERESTING, IN COUNTERPARTY YOU CAN DECIDE WHETHER TO MAKE THE TOKENS DIVISIBLE OR NOT. THE INDIVIDUAL WHO CREATED THE ASSET SCREWED UP AND MADE THE ASSET DIVISIBLE INTO FINER AMOUNTS. USUALLY IT’S PROTOCOL IN THE RAREPEPE TRADING LAND TO MAKE YOUR TOKENS UNBREAKABLE, IT’S JUST A BETTER COLLECTABILITY AESTHETIC WE ALL ADHERE TO.
CURRENTLY LORDKEK’S MARKETCAP IS AROUND THE 3.5 MILLION DOLLAR MARK(EDIT: EACH CARD’S MINIMUM SELLING PRICE IS 2.3 MILLION SO WE’RE AT 23 MILLION MARKETCAP). THIS IS BECAUSE THOSE WHO INSIST THAT THEY MUST OWN “A CHUNK” OF THE 4CHAN FROG GOD WILL BUY A VERY SMALL AMOUNT AT A BIG PRICE. THUS THE MARKETCAP IS PRETTY INFLATED I MUST ADMIT. PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY BUYING(FOR EXAMPLE) 0.0004 CHUNKS OF LORDKEK AT 20 BUCKS A PIECE OR SOME RATHER. THAT REALLY MAKES THE MARKETCAP HIGH BUT INTERESTING ENOUGH, PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT.
THE CURRENT STATS OF THE CARD AND IT’S OWNERS ARE ALSO A HILARIOUS BUT SERIOUS AFFAIR. THE INDIVIDUAL WHO CREATED THE ASSETS HAS DIVULGED THAT OUT OF THE TEN CARDS ONLY 9 REMAIN. ONE WAS LOST FOREVER IN SPACE DUE TO A FRIEND OF HIS WHO CLEARLY HAD NO IDEA OF MEME FRENZIED FERVOR ON THE INTERNET. THE PERSON FORGOT THEIR 12 WORD PASSPHRASE AND ALSO PIN CODE TO THEIR COUNTERPARTY WALLET. JUST LIKE THE OLD STORIES OF BITCOIN A PERSON LOST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND DIDN’T HAVE THE FORESIGHT TO SEE IT. THE ORIGINAL ASSET CREATOR OWNS 2 AND 7 OTHERS OWN FULL ONES. THE OTHER WAS WAS BROKEN AND NOW ARE BOUGHT AS “SHARDS” OR “DUST” OF KEK(JOKE WAS COINED AFTER A WHILE).
THE LAST TIME THIS CARD WAS DOCUMENTED IT BROKE A RECORD OF SELLING 1 AT 5 BTC WHICH WAS AROUND 13,000 DOLLARS AT THE TIME(NOW 75,000 DOLLARS IN DEC. 2017) . NOW THAT SAME PRICE IS AROUND 20,000 DOLLARS. FUNNY HOW BITCOIN PRICE IS ROLLING THESE DAYS ISN’T IT? THIS TRANSACTION HAPPENED AROUND 5 MONTHS AGO AND DID MAKE SOME WAVES IN THE BITCOIN COMMUNITY. IT SEEMS THAT THIS CARD HAS A GROWING VALUE AND THERE’S NOTHING STOPPING IT.

THE QUESTION THAT REMAINS IS, HOW HIGH OF A PRICE DOES THIS CARD GO? IN AN INSANE INTERNET WORLD WHERE MEMES RULE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DIGITAL WORLD, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? AS THEY SAY IN BITCOIN LAND “EITHER IT GOES TO ZERO OR IT GOES TO THE MOON.” I HAVE TO AGREE THAT THIS CARD ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE AND SEEMS TO BE GETTING HIGHER IN VALUE BY THE DAY AND OF COURSE, THE LEGEND CONTINUES.
IF ANYBODY IS INTERESTED AND ACTUALLY PROVE FOR THEMSELVES THE VALUE OF THIS CARD. OFFERS CAN BE MADE ON THE TELEGRAM.ME/PEPECOINS OR TELEGRAM.ME/RAREPEPETRADERGROUP. ALSO IF YOU’RE INTERESTED ON HOW ALL THIS STUFF WORKS THEY HAVE OVER 1,500 MEMBERS ACTIVELY TRADING THAT ROOM.
- GBT(I WRITE IN CAPS, THIS IS HOW I TALK)
