As we approach the halfway mark of Punks on Hive, I am amazed at how popular they are and how difficult launch has been. Everything ran so well during development.
While I have been super busy trying to fix things and get things back on track while running on little to no sleep, I have been checking out some of the collections people have.
I am still stunned by 
I said this a few times, but I really love the bubble gum accessory that wasn't in other Crypto Punk sets and made it super rare (only about 10 will exist in all 10K, plus or minus about 4).
Matt has two of them, in fact he had the only two for quite a while yesterday. Looks like six Punks have come out with bubble gum.
This has been one hell of a 36 hours, between the excitement, stress, exhaustion, and frustration. I'm quite chocked up with emotions. This launch has given me a lot of insight in how I would do things differently. For one, I try to stay grounded and not try to build something so clever that it ends up being the bane of my existence.
In the end the Real-Time Rarity isn't such a big deal if all Punks are minted in just a few days. I really regret not just doing what everyone else did and generate ahead of time and distribute them randomly. I reall loved the idea of the rarity changing and the excitement to see what others pull and how it effects your collection. I was hoping for a Ying Yang effect of emotions. It ended up taking a good amount of time and won't ultimately make a huge difference after all. It's also been a source of some of the performance problems with everyone hitting things so quickly. Another side effect I kind of expected is the reluctance of buying/selling on the market as you can't be sure what the ultimate rarity will be. This can potentially be good or bad though if you manage to scoop up some good picks.
I do want to do other NFT projects, I have learned so much in this process and would do things differently right off the bat. I have a really cool NFT project in mind that is basically 5 NFT projects in one.
I know Punks have been done a million times, the thing is, every blockchain already has them but we didn't. That being said, I tried to bring an unique spin to it, even though it backfired, I learned a ton.
We are 200 Punks shy of the halfway mark, Hive Punks will truly get interesting when you can't mint them anymore and you know who is holding the good ones. Although I do like the give and take of a moving rarity score.
On another note, 10 Punks got burned. I don't know how the user managed to do it with the checks in place to prevent it (I ended up adding another check) but these punks are now off the market. I ended up giving the user a refund regardless.
I hope everyone is having fun with the Punks despite the set backs.
Cover image from Dirty Harry Movie
