The time has come to honor our fallen comrades! During the Great Mint War of 2021 some of our beloved Hive Punks were lost in the trenches of battle. Servers were going down, databases were resetting left and right. Hiveans all over the world were crying out "WEN PUNKS?" as the Hive Punks site struggled to handle the hoardes of users flooding the pages.
It was chaos and confusion all over as the blockchain experts were smashing the mint button incessantly, while the noobies struggled to figure out how to manually interact with the contract and just what the heck SWAP.HIVE is. Before we knew it the server gave a final sigh of relief, and a puff of smoke, as the last Hive Punk out of 10,000 was minted. Somehow in this flurry of activity 21 different Hive Punks perished, being sent to the @null address. It was a bittersweet moment as the lucky survivors clutched onto their loved ones.
The Hive Punk Graveyard is officially HERE
These Punks will never see the light of day again, unfortunately. Many of them perished from accidents and some from natural causes. The Punk Legends Discord is committed to keeping their memories alive by doing a series of Hive Punk Obituary posts! We ask any of the existing Hive Punk holders to join and to take part in this fun little adventure.
o·bit·u·ar·y
/ōˈbiCHəˌwerē/
noun
a notice of a death, especially in a newspaper, typically including a brief biography of the deceased person.
"an obituary notice"
Posts will be shared among the community for curation and we strongly encourage commenting to increase engagement and to get to know your fellow Hive Punks! Share the posts you create in the Punk Legends promotion channel and use the tags "hivepunkobituaries", "punklegends" and "punkmaster" for maximum visibility.
There is no standard format so have fun with it! We ask that people pick different punks to write the stories about, to make things more interesting. If you need the details about each punk, again you can find them HERE at the Hive Punk Graveyard. The goal is to write a short story about each of their lives and their deaths, to increase awareness about the Hive Punks project and the decentralized nature of NFTs and blockchains.
Going forward we have something very special planned for the post rewards, so stay tuned to see exactly what we have coming up next...
Hive Punk Ritual Sacrifices...
IMHO The HIVE punks site would be a bit more interesting if the owners of punks could add short updates on the status of the punk. Maybe well wishers should be allowed to send flowers to mark the graves of punks which have ascended to the @null account.
It would also be interesting if the punks in the null gallery linked to their respective (and respectful) obituary.
That sounds really cool, I have requested that we add an official graveyard to the site so we can track all the dead punks and the obituaries could be a little side note on them.
Great idea here with the obituaries for the burned punks. I hope to participate at some point this week.
Awesome glad to have you as part of the club!!! PUNK LEGENDS LIVE ON
Thanks Lethal for coming up with this idea, first it was the $PUNKZ token, and it quickly escalated to mourning the first casualties of "The Great Minting" of hive-fest weekend.. As a guy who's never really cared for true punk music or punks in general, I jumped for joy at the opportunity to write obituaries for the freaks, and to use the proceeds to sweep the floor of all the scum who drank to much at the show, and to send those unlucky bastards to their demise : )
OK, that got dark. But it is reality. They'll understand, I'm sure.
I've heard there is leather jackets in heaven where the spike studs never fall off.
#AllPunksGoToHeaven