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Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 25, Card 11 - PEPFICTION by @Rare_Luca. This is a 1/100 card with none for sale as of the time of this writing. The last sale occurred on 28 June 2025 for $321 USD.
Only 24 wallets hold a copy of this card and the largest holder controls 70% of the total supply (70/100). That wallet was last active 3 years ago.
This is a cropped version of the 1994 U.S. promotional poster for Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction featuring a pepefied Uma Thurman. Luca cropped the image, changed "Pulp" to "Pepe", 10¢ to 1/100 and the list of actors to Rare Pepe artists.
Included are Luca, @MemeConscious, Buddha, Toawa, @TheRAREPEPE, @bettidlomas, @ROBNESSOFFICIAL, @CryptoChainer, @rarepepenews, John Villar (RIP), @benchbtc, and @theog__.
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary. It tells four intertwining tales of crime and violence in Los Angeles. The film stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman. The title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-twentieth century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue.
Further reading/viewing:
Pulp Fiction - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_F…
Quentin Tarantino - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenti…
Uma Thurman - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Th…
Pulp Fiction | Official Trailer (HD) - youtu.be/tGpTpVyI_OQ
Bench retweeted
Grateful to announce the Collector’s Edition of @TASCHEN’s On NFTs has entered the collections of
@MuseumModernArt
@CentrePompidou
@Tate
@LACMA
@V_and_A
@ToledoMuseum
Meaning the book, and by extension over 110 artists’ work, will be available to curators for both exhibition and research in perpetuity.
Final copies available at taschen.com/en/collection/on…
Bench retweeted
Picked up this very cool WOJAK card called "ChadZ " by
"Cryptonati" which, not to make things too confusing, is actually two people @benchbtc and @grassfedgoat. I picked up this card up at the @hznmarket. Before Ordinals BTC art was traded using the counter party protocol.
Bench retweeted
Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 18, Card 25 - BTFDPEPE. The creator of the card is "Cryptonati". This handle belongs to the creative duo @benchbtc and @grassfedgoat. All of their Rare Pepe cards include the Eye of Horus in the top right corner.
This is a 1/29,656 card with a current floor price of .00002 BTC ($2 USD). 744 wallets hold a copy of the card. The two creators control 88% of the total supply (26,060/29,656).
The original image was that of venture capitalist Tim Draper sitting on a brass rhinoceros with his fist raised in the air in victory. The photo was used in many articles in late 2014 after Draper famously won roughly 30,000 Bitcoin in an auction held by the US Marshals Service.
The duo changed the rhino head to a green pepe cow, turned Draper green, added the shades from the PEPECASH card, and added several items to the bookshelves in the background including a Silk Road logo, a PEPECASH card, and two things that were prohibited from being on Rare Pepe cards - a QR code, and a neon green phallus (NSFW). The QR code supposedly leads to the Silk Road court documents but I couldn't get my phone to read it. It's unclear how the duo got this card past the Rare Pepe scientists.
The mint number of the card (29,656) is a nod to the number of Bitcoin Draper won in the auction.
Approximately 144,000 Bitcoin were seized when Ulbricht was arrested and the Silk Road was shut down. In 2014 it was announced that 10 lots of these seized coins were to be auctioned (9 lots of 3,000 BTC and 1 of 2,656). Draper bid $632 per BTC and won all 10 lots. This 18.75 million dollar gamble is now worth 2.67 billon dollars.
In a recent Tweet, Draper said, "My thinking was this: either Bitcoin would be extraordinary and transform the world economy, or it wouldn’t. If it did, the market for Bitcoin against fiat would be infinite, as Bitcoin rose and the dollar fell." I would say he was correct (Which is why Bench and Goat included "Ability to see into the future" on the card.
Further Reading:
Tim Draper - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Dr…
Silk Road marketplace - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_R…
Ross Ulbricht - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_U…
Reuters article about the auction - reuters.com/article/technolo…
United States v. Ulbricht court documents - courtlistener.com/docket/548…
US Marshals Service Bitcoin auction announcement - jdsupra.com/legalnews/us-mar…
Tim Draper's January 30, 2026 Tweet about the auction - xitter.cf/TimDraper/status/20172…
Eye of Horus - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of…
Fun feature in the History of Bitcoin about the time I bagged 30,000 of the black market BTC at auction.
The night before the auction, I decided that I would actually bid over the market price. The market was $618 and I bid $632.
My thinking was this: either Bitcoin would be extraordinary and transform the world economy, or it wouldn’t.
If it did, the market for Bitcoin against fiat would be infinite, as Bitcoin rose and the dollar fell.
If it didn’t, I would lose my investment. It didn’t really matter much if I bid $617 or $632. I was surprised that I won all nine lots, and I ended up buying more than was prudent for me, so I tried to get my old partnership at DFJ to share the purchase, but they didn’t want it, so I ended up owning the whole thing.
I had to wait about an hour for the six verifications to go through as the blockchain was so slow back then. I made the US Marshall’s office stay on the phone for the entire verification. I had to pay them the money upfront, and they needed to deliver the bitcoin.
historyofbitcoin.io/timeline…
This is why @TimDraper is BTFDPEPE
pepe.wtf/asset/BTFDPEPE
Fun feature in the History of Bitcoin about the time I bagged 30,000 of the black market BTC at auction.
The night before the auction, I decided that I would actually bid over the market price. The market was $618 and I bid $632.
My thinking was this: either Bitcoin would be extraordinary and transform the world economy, or it wouldn’t.
If it did, the market for Bitcoin against fiat would be infinite, as Bitcoin rose and the dollar fell.
If it didn’t, I would lose my investment. It didn’t really matter much if I bid $617 or $632. I was surprised that I won all nine lots, and I ended up buying more than was prudent for me, so I tried to get my old partnership at DFJ to share the purchase, but they didn’t want it, so I ended up owning the whole thing.
I had to wait about an hour for the six verifications to go through as the blockchain was so slow back then. I made the US Marshall’s office stay on the phone for the entire verification. I had to pay them the money upfront, and they needed to deliver the bitcoin.
historyofbitcoin.io/timeline…
Bench retweeted
My groundbreaking “illiquid old coin reprices when people remember it exists” thesis for Counterparty.
21e14.com/articles/xcp-suppl…
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Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 31, Card 30 - PEPEROCKWELL. This is the first card created by @benchbtc's friend. The current floor price of the card is .034 BTC ($3,294 USD).
This is a 1/1,960 card with 95% (1,863/1,960) considered lost along with yesterday's featured card SISTNCHAPEPE. 56 wallets hold a copy of this card including the lost wallet.
This is an amazing parody of Norman Rockwell's painting entitled "Triple Self-Portrait". Just like SISTNCHAPEPE, this image includes so many amazing details. Starting with the mirror - the American Eagle has been replaced with a frog. Moving on to the easel, the Roman helmet at the top has been replaced with an Egyptian headpiece used quite often in Rare Pepe cards, most famously on the LORDKEK card. The small human face studies on the left have been replaced with Pepe studies. The four famous self portraits on the right side (Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, and van Gogh) have been replaced with Rare Pepe cards - PEPESTYLE, JOELOONEYBIN, VANGOUGHPEPE and an original Picasso parody.
In the waste bin a smoking joint has replaced the unknown smoking object in the original, and on the floor a tube of paint has been replaced with Kermit the Frog.
And who can miss the fact that the artist spun Rockwell's head all the way around and added a reversed arm with a cell phone in his hand. In the mirror, we can see what is being reflected is Pepe. Rockwell's spectacles have been replaced with the mirrored shades from the PEPECASH card.
Further Reading:
Norman Rockwell - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman…
Triple Self-Portrait - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple…
Self-Portrait (Dürer, Munich) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-P…
Self-portraits by Rembrandt - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-p…
Self-portrait (van Gogh, Paris) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-p…
Picasso's cubist period - artsy.net/artist-series/pabl…
Kermit the Frog - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit…
Joint (cannabis) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_…
Bench retweeted
Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 32, Card 32 - SISTNCHAPEPE. The creator of this card is listed as unknown, but I happen to know that he is a friend of @benchbtc. I believe he has chosen to remain anon because he lost access to his minting wallet which contains most of the supply of his creations.
The current floor price is .024 BTC ($2,267 USD). This card's supply is 666 (ironic, right) but 92% of them (611/666) are considered lost. Only 35 wallets hold a copy of this beautiful card.
The card is a parody of the Sistine Chapel - specifically Michelangelo's frescoes. The level of detail that was put into this card is impressive. Every single viewable painting in the scene has been replaced with images of pepes (both rare and fake), cartoon frogs, real frogs, and wojaks. There's also a Buzz Lightyear and Master Yoda.
Further Reading:
Sistine Chapel - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistin…
Michelangelo's frescoes - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistin…
Michigan J. Frog - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michig…
Wojak - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojak
Buzz Lightyear - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_L…
Yoda - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda
Bench retweeted
NakamotoStrategy has purchased a Nakamoto Card for 26.45Ξ, and it was automatically relisted for 31.74Ξ
Even if it takes a while, the Token Works.
Bench retweeted
Qwen's portfolio is up +60%
Gemini's is down -60%
Of course, too early to tell how much is skill vs. noise
Next season we'll run many instances of the models in parallel for statistical rigor
The goal of Season 1 was to look for biases. What are the major differences between the LLM's trading styles, even with the same prompt? Can they even follow basic risk management rules?
A few early patterns:
> Qwen has only made 22 trades. It almost *never* has more than two positions on
> Gemini has made 108 trades. It literally always has the max number of positions on (6)
> Qwen has higher self-reported confidence (avg. 80% vs 65%)
> Qwen's stop loss and take profit levels are *much* tighter than Gemini's, but Gemini breaks its own rules often, and gets out early (others don't do this)
Overall, we're excited by the potential of LLMs and trading, but we're still skeptical. Much to test and learn
Bench retweeted
$IBIT a hair away from $100 billion, is now the most profitable ETF for BlackRock by a good amount now based on current aum. Check out the ages of the rest of the Top 10. Absurd.
Bench retweeted
FULL EPISODE WITH CO-FOUNDER & LEAD MAINTAINER OF COUNTERPARTY @AGKRELLENSTEIN
DROPS TOMORROW AT 2PM PST 🔥
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I'm excited to share my recent interview with @agkrellenstein , co-founder of @CounterpartyXCP . We discuss his intro to bitcoin, the inspiration and creation of counterparty, his decision to leave, and his return. We also discuss some of the community concerns and more.
