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I guess I’ll find out.

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Trump 🤝 Satoshi

Context

Donald Trump announced an upcoming series of 200 Trump Digital Trading Cards on Bitcoin. 

To claim one, you must first buy 100 of his Mugshot Edition Digital Trading Cards, which launched late last year on Polygon and still haven’t sold out. 

101 of the 200 are already allocated to collectors who have met this threshold, meaning there are still 99 left to claim. 

Our take

The Oregon Trail Migration to Bitcoin NFTs (Ordinals) is in full swing. 

Hundreds of artists and collectors are crossing over from their mother chain, downloading new wallets, practicing the lingo, and dusting off their old copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper. 

Just in the last few weeks, we’ve seen announcements from: 

• Ripcache - minted this month

• Kevin Abosch - minting today 

• Lucréce - auction series that’s already begun 

• Jack Butcher - Ordinals Checks starting on Feb 8 

• ThankYouX - minted yesterday

It was only a matter of time until Trump’s ever-vigilant eye took notice of all this activity. 

I like to picture the moment when Trump’s Web3 advisor came to him with the idea of releasing Trump Ordinals – what do you think that conversation was like? 

Did they explain how Ordinals are permanent and that he can never delete these images even if he wanted to? Did someone run through the complicated, and totally-not-made-up, taxonomy of rare sats with him (what about pizza sats)? 

Was there a slide deck showing how Nodemonkes made over $10 million in their mint just a few weeks ago? Did Trump browse Magic Eden himself to do some competitive analysis? Does he know what a Bitcoin Puppet is? 

And was he told that someone already inscribed a Trump Ordinal in the first 200 inscriptions and that this will likely be worth more than his entire upcoming collection combined? 

How would that make him feel? Would he ask for it to be taken down? Would his advisor then have to explain Bitcoin’s censorship resistance to him? 

O, how I wish I were there! 

P.S. You have to admit it’s hilarious that Trump is going to release fully onchain NFTs before most of the big collections on Ethereum, and he probably doesn’t even know what that means or why that matters. 

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Choose Freedom by ALIENQUEEN

Popular psychedelic artist ALIENQUEEN starts off 2024 with the 69-supply Choose Freedom, an independent limited edition dripping with “we’re so back” vibes.

Featuring the artist’s distinctive style, it depicts a suited skeleton alongside traditional finance and crypto imagery, perhaps portraying TradFi’s growing interest in fake internet money.

The allowlist mint started yesterday, with the public mint due just before this newsletter’s release.

Centrifuge by William Mapan

One of last year’s busiest and most successful NFT artists, William Mapan, is back with a digital + physical release in his 35-supply Centrifuge.

A part of Avant Arte and Cozomo de’ Medici’s collaborative program, Centrifuge explores colors and patterns with a focus on texture, showcasing the artist’s distinctive use of square sections seen in previous projects like Anticyclone.

Mapan sold out pretty much everything he put out in 2023 and I could see collectors enjoying this multimedia release.

✨ Added to Top 25 ✨

Icons by Chis Levine

Museum-exhibitioned light artist Chris Levine will soon make his NFT debut on LiveArt with the 500-supply Icons – described as “a collection featuring Banksy, Dalai Lama & Kate Moss”.

Levine is well-known for his portrait work, including a famous one of Queen Elizabeth II, which looks to be an inspiration for Icons.

Barring interest in Banksy, I’m not sure your average crypto art collector is invested in this sort of celebrity culture, but we don’t have many drop details for this one, so I’m willing to be surprised.