Narrative Believer. PFP/Banner: @ittybits_eth / OTP by @m0dest___ Check it: ArtRank: 0xincept.com and ITAP itookaphoto.xyz
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an edition now available on @TransientLabs
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I just minted "41" by @JenPanepinto which is now live on @TransientLabs. Minting now! transient.xyz/mint/summer26
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tonight, death and taxes ends.
a group of citizens organized. a large holder agreed to sacrifice four of their own citizens, 17 eth each. the group pooled the funds and bought the final four deaths. i didn't end the game. the citizens did. i can't imagine a better ending than that.
tonight the four are killed, the population reaches 69, and this phase of the game officially concludes.
now the important part, survivors:
your share of the treasury does not move on its own. claiming is a pull function. it does not happen automatically. you go to the site and you claim it yourself. there is exactly one place to do this: deptofdeath.xyz/irs. anyone who sends you anywhere else is trying to steal your hard earned eth.
the 69 will be paid exactly as written. that sentence has been on every surface of this project since the beginning. tonight it comes true.
i'm proud of what i built. the art, the strategy, the mechanics, the puzzles, the story. but, it also cost far more than i expected. it broke me emotionally. damaged relationships with people i genuinely care about. i said from the start that the tension and the discourse was part of the art. some days that was hard to believe.
thank you to everyone who played, watched, doubted, screamed, accused, and stayed. all of it was participation. all of it is in the work.
to the 69: you outlived a world. survived 201 grueling days. you will soon collect what the world owes you.
i'll have more to share later. still trying to process all of this. the subnet is coming. but for now i need a vacation.
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Incept.eth retweeted
Death & Taxes might actually be coming to an end
The remaining citizens (excluding Hed0 and Graveyard) have collectively come together with a plan to buy the final 4 citizens and end the game
At current prices, the split would be ~17.3 ETH per winner
Hed0 has agreed to 17 ETH each and will give the Governor + Evader to the group to auction off afterward
A pledge page was created to see who would be willing to contribute toward the buyout. In less than 24 hours, 47 of 56 eligible citizens have already pledged. At those numbers, the cost is only ~1.45 ETH per contributor
Now it comes down to the remaining 9
Do they join the other 47 and bring Death & Taxes to an end, or do they keep paying taxes until someone eventually folds?
Either way, feels like weβre getting close to finding out how this game ends
Today marks 6 months since Death & Taxes minted and what's happening in the game is actually WILD
The prize pool is at 1044ETH β 69 winners = 15e each
The floor is 10.5e, which sounds like a free 4.5e
But don't forget the increasing daily tax, which is over 0.12e per day
So you need to be able to stay alive longer than the next person, which is where things get interesting
There's currently 77 citizens still alive, meaning 8 more to go before the game ends
A majority of players have formed a group called "The Union 69" and work together to bribe players into giving up, audit players, etc.
There's 2 whales who operate outside of this group
The first is the_graveyard who holds 7 and has almost $1m liquid
The other is Hed0nist, who holds 6 split into multiple wallets
A tax-skip trick was discovered where players could avoid paying taxes every second day. This means a player who minted has paid over 10eth in taxes, while a tax-skipper could have paid around 5eth
Hed0nist discovered the trick and audits+skips taxes with his custom bot by pumping gas
The game has been going on for half a year and could technically go on forever, as long as 70 citizens are willing to pay their taxes
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Just minted "Faceprints" by @cemhah on SR
superrare.com/artwork/eth/0xβ¦
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The past month I was head down getting ducks in a row for β¦β¦
1. @CanalStreetShow - thanks to @light_artists for curating and @moodSlime_ for collecting Self Study
2. An exhibition in London - details later today π
3. Marfa prep/plans π
4. The biggest project Iβve ever released. π
Ending the year with a bang. Letβs go!
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cannot tell if these are ugly or awesome.
#remixeverything #javascript
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"Self Study" from WINDOWS
On exhibit today with @light_artists at the @CanalStreetShow
The one course you never finish.
A self-portrait. The process of getting to know oneself over time.
So honored to be a part of this with so many amazing artists.
Link to the piece below.
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regrettably, tomorrow. an irresponsibly priced edition mint with any proceeds being deployed to bring this phase of death and taxes to a close.
the not so fine print : you do not need to mint this. this is outrageously overpriced. please donβt. even if you enjoy losing money. donβt do it. remaining supply will be burned immediately.
24 hour mint. 8-10hr allowlist for *active* citizens.
2:20 mp4 artwork
made with my tools (plant / laminate / haunt) and a little help from @greencrossliveβs dithervoid.
sound by @fredagainagain1 (Rosalia x betos horns smash up)
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. @inceptionally just picked up 1, thank you so much ππΎππΎππΎ
1 left and we're sold out guyssssssssssss β
Sold one edition of Til death do us art to @KubtiTheCreator, thank you so much man π
We are down to just 2 left β
Sold out today??? π
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The collection is whole again!
When the Ordex Ethscription marketplace disappeared, 2,244 ittybits were trapped in its marketplace contract. 22% of the collection!
Today, their ownership histories have been reconstructed, official successors issued, and the complete 10K collection committed on Ethereum.
Hereβs how. π€π§΅
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ESTATE LIQUIDATION for @m0dest___
the gofundmydeath treasury still has some juice left.
every evader and horseman the wallet holds is available for barter. gallery below.
every sale goes back into the pot funding the deaths of the last citizens.
see something you want β DM me.
gofundmydeathsale.netlify.apβ¦
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"Attention As A Currency" and "Algorithmic Bliss" from The Disease of "MORE" collection by @egodead
I am a fan of art critical of our algo-scroll addictions. Bravo, Nishant.
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a game about death and taxes was never going to end politely. the anger is real, the desperation is real, and i receive both daily. so today, three actions - the last ones i have.
one. at midnight tonight, 0:00 UTC, the bailout function is terminated. the last lever i held. after tonight there is no artist inside the machine - only the machine and the people in it. i can't save anyone after midnight. prepare accordingly.
two. the anti bot bot club redemption opens today, for one week. thirteen citizens may exit by commission: transfer your citizen to the club, receive a placeholder that becomes the finished 1/1 when your citizen dies. address and instructions come from me only - anyone else asking for your citizen is a predator.
three. effective in the next 48 hours, the 6.9% fees on tax payments and audits re-routes from the project to a wallet with one job: acquire citizens and let them die. money spent ending my own game. not price support. not a buyback. not a promise. the wallet buys what it buys, and everything it buys dies. artistically, i want this phase of the game to end. i am now paying for it to end.
the honest record: i didn't anticipate the epoch seam. i didn't expect bots built to farm it. i built a game about inevitability and the players found the gaps in inevitability - probably the most death-and-taxes outcome possible.
but the rules were the rules. the game never changed. not once, not for anyone, not for me. and the game will end exactly as written.
some of you are angry with me. i'd rather have that than silence - it's what i signed up for. and for every angry person, another has said this will be remembered as long as people talk about networked art. both could be right. that tension is the work.
i am extraordinarily proud of what we have all made here.
after midnight, the ending of this chapter belongs to you.
godspeed, citizens. die well.
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