It's a special day. Today, 8 years ago, I claimed 10 CryptoPunks. When I first came across punks it immediately clicked. I had the same aha moment as I had with bitcoin. NFTs didn't exist back then. The ERC-20 standard was not adopted until three months later. ICO's were the hottest thing in town. Matt & John from Larva Labs had to write a custom marketplace in order to trade them. Their smart contract is being used to this date and has handled more than $3B in sales. Claiming was cumbersome, but fun. In order to do claim them you had to find the punk ID of a punk you liked by zoom in on a grid with all punks. Punks with a green background were claimed, punks with a blue background were unclaimed. After finding the punk id you needed to go to the contract and execute the "getPunk(punkNumber)" method on the contract. Claiming was free, except for gas fees. I stopped after 10 punks, as I felt I should leave some for others. I later learned that was incredibly naive, as there were multiple wallets that claimed hundreds of punks, some even thousands. Much has changed since those early days, but looking at punks never gets old. Matt & John were (unintentional) visionaries, I'm stoked that they've returned as advisors to Node. Here’s to the next 8 years and whatever it brings 🥂