The minting of the Runicore has started at OpenSea on the Ethereum network, and after much hype, anticipation and fanfare, and after waiting a month or so since whitelisting....
This is the result:
Sure. Why not... What does it matter...
And no gold foil either.
I think that out of the two I own and while neither are the "manliest" of images, the green one is by far the better, because it would suck to have the last hit for defeat delivered by a ChupaChup holding a needle.
And, I like the irony.
It seems that is going to be awhile before it gets any usage however, as currently there is no way to get it in game afaik, and the last update I saw was "not today" - which doesn't exude confidence that it will be tomorrow either.
The first thousand are already minted:
And while that isn't a huge rush flying off the shelves, the open sale hasn't started yet and the whitelisted buyers don't have to rush at all. This means that they do go public on November 3rd, it will be a better indicator of demand. However, I Still think that they aren't going to fly off the shelves. If the card was stronger, it would likely see more demand, but even then, "non-native" sales of Splinterlands releases don't seem to go that well in general. Waka Spiritblade was a good example. Gone in moments in game - barely sold elsewhere.
These are also going to be far more unwieldy to use and I am unsure if there will be the potential for a rental market for them, at least not through 
At the moment, neither of them feel representative of "me" - They would have to be far less manly for that to be the case. But, I do think that there will be an evolution in the NFT space, where usable NFTs like these will also become more customizable, and still playable in-game. It would be possible to do it using a similar mechanism as the Runi was created, but give people the freedom to create using the toolkit, selecting the character components they want.
Mine would be hot.
And have a reputation.
As all of this NFT stuff starts to become more than just an expensive digital image of something silly, they are going to be used for far more and will start to represent all kinds of IRL assets, perhaps becoming personal identifiers also. Wouldn't it be interesting to use these as sign-ins for voting proofs - voting should be done on decentralized blockchains anyway. Take the "guess work" out of validity.
All the basic building blocks are there for a pretty amazing crypto space that intertwines with our daily lives, but it all just needs to be pulled together into something usable and simplified to lower the entry for normal people. But, would normal people be buying stuff like this, or does it take a special type of person - A crypto person.
How about other Runicore minters - anything good?
Taraz
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