“I like contrasting everyday problems with death, it takes away their power for a moment. Dystopia creeps in further everyday, it's hard not to talk about it.”
— XCOPY, to Eleonora Brizi for THE VAULT by $WHALE, Artsy Editorial, October 2021
I think it's really important to do everything I can to maintain the work I've put out into the world. You can mint new tokens, but you can't truly replace the original, especially years later. I used to think of my NFTs as a chronological archive, but now I see them as more like a garden that needs to be maintained.
— to Jason Bailey, Right Click Save, December 2022

Anonymous since the beginning, and still anonymous. The loops distort, stutter and burn — and the practice has outlasted every cycle that was supposed to end it.
Jpegs (NFTs) are the trojan horse to take crypto mainstream.
to Eleonora Brizi for THE VAULT by $WHALE, Artsy Editorial, October 2021Every figure above comes from Alfred’s own dataset — sales, volume and owners read off the chain, floors from the marketplaces. On a wallet he goes one step further, to the number that gets buried under a decade of transfers: what you actually paid.
In the wallets we look at, nearly half of what people hold has no purchase price to look up. It arrived as a mint, a swap or a transfer.
Alfred follows each one back through the chain.
Both figures come from one reading: 16 wallets, 3,548 items, Sep 2026.
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