// timeline

EVERY LAYER, IN ORDER

The story and the work, side by side, in the order it actually happened.

2018

Cent

Found a site called Cent while looking for ways to earn ETH and get closer to the real crypto community. Answered bounties hoping for a little Ξ. It happened, and I was hooked. Maybe 70-80 people were actually using it back then.
jan 3, 2019

First post

Posted for the first time on Cent: nothing profound, just a note about a sorting feature. Kept answering bounties and reinvesting what I earned back into the community.
1H 2019

First piece, first mint

Bought my first piece of cryptoart with Ξ earned on Cent, from an artist named Rob Eberle. Minted my own first piece, "Nexistance," on Editional that May: a free-minting app where a community member named Connie walked me through the process.
jun 2019

Rejected, then in

Applied to SuperRare. Got denied the first time. Reworked the portfolio, resubmitted, got in on the second try. Everything I've minted or collected since has run on ETH earned from that point forward.
Gated Entertainmentphotography / superrare: roots in the camera, long before the wallet
2019–20

The quiet era

Back then it felt like there was 20-30 of us, just hanging out, trading art, talking art and dreaming of all this tech could become for artists and collectors. Saint Nakamoto really seemed to change all this: that auction set new highs and people really started to pay attention. Got onto KnownOrigin not long after.
apr 2020

$MM & Future Punk

Launched $MM, one of the first social tokens in the space after Connie's. Ran monthly seeder rewards for the people supporting me: "Future Punk" went out as a thank-you gift to that month's 28 seeders, not a sale.
It's Greatglitch / superrare: the datamosh era begins
oct 15, 2020

"Look for the OGs"

Told the timeline straight: "If you wanna skip the scams and illegitimate art being tokenized, go look for the artists who were doing this before it blew up." Became my most-shared tweet up to that point. Turns out a lot of people wanted someone to just say it.
nov 24, 2020

Does a crypto artist need a website?

Asked the question publicly, half-joking, mostly not. Four years and a few hundred tweets later, here's the answer.
jan 3, 2021

Behind the art

Started sharing occasional "BTA" breakdowns: narrating the symbolism behind a piece instead of leaving it silent. The first was "a blurred reflection," about the moment in a dream where you're not sure if you're still asleep.
jan 11, 2021

Community > price

Helped my daughter set up her first storefront. The community showed up so hard she sold out in hours. I couldn't put a price on that, so over the next 48 hours I gave away or undersold 21 of my own pieces, most at a net loss. Reset why I was doing any of this.
feb 13, 2021

The 1,000 number

Said it out loud for the first time: "My goal is 1k unique collectors." Not followers: 1,000 different people who chose to own something I made. I was at about 150. I've posted an honest update on that number every few months since.
Broken Visionglitch / superrare: the psychological work
feb–aug 2021

LayerBreaker

Organized and arranged a 62-artist collaboration across 20+ countries on Async: 61 layers, 284 states, none of us ever having met in person. Async built new minting tech just so every artist could sign their own layer with their own wallet. Real provenance, not a shared studio credit.
dec 6, 2021

The pinned tweet

Wrote the thing I still pin to my profile: "I reveal parts of myself as I create. I aim to build a connection between artist and viewer as we delve into and explore our souls together." Still the truest short version of why I do this.
mar 2022

History, kept

I've always believed this space owes itself an honest history before bad actors get to rewrite it. In March I did my small part: tracked down where all the original Editional artists ended up minting across platforms, and published it as #CryptoArtHistory.
jun 22, 2022

Standing on it

KnownOrigin sold to eBay. My reply became the most-shared thing I posted that year: "I'll probably be burning all my unsold work. I'm not here to support the eBay's of the world. We were supposed to be building something different." I meant it.
nov 2022

Moosedrops

Started free-claiming small glitch pieces out into the world through Manifold, no strings, no floor price. When FTX imploded that November, I posted the joke that wasn't really a joke, a full list of every platform Mightymooseart had zero exposure to: FTX, Alameda, Coinbase, KuCoin, BlockFi, NiftyGateway, OpenSea. Even Santa Claus made the list. A December claim went out tagged #SBF_FTX and #SBFvsMadoff. Some things needed saying in the work, not just the feed. 162 pieces ended up in 84 different hands. That's the ratio I actually track.
since

P:X and the present

Launched P:X, my generative project on Art Blocks (wouldn't have without SnowFro's encouragement early on). Over 200 pieces sold across platforms, a family that's grown up minting alongside me. Still checking the tx history. Still no thank you to the legacy auction houses.
not yet

Twenty away

September 2023: "I am at 669 unique collectors of my art!!! this is unreal to me." November 2023: over 980. March 2024, two years to the day after the first check-in: "only 20 collectors from my goal of 1K." I still haven't crossed it. I'm still posting the number.
nov 2024

The Satoshi Files

Minted 100 "declassified" files imagining the FBI, CIA, KGB, Interpol, and the Ministry of State Security all quietly working the same case: who actually built the thing we've all been building on top of for a decade. Same instinct as #CryptoArtHistory, aimed further back.
Death of an Uprisingphotography / superrare: the camera never left