How to Conduct Due Diligence on Vintage NFTs Like Twitter Eggs (CryptoEggs) and BlockHeads

Thinking about investing in a highly speculative asset class? Do your homework!

CryptoEggs (aka Twitter Eggs) and BlockHeads History

Choosing an Egg

Verify an Asset’s Data on Namecoin Explorer

Using Namebrow.se to view details about a Namecoin name

Verify Authenticity of NFT’s Hosted Media File

Web-based cURL utility to retrieve header information for a hosted file.

Saving Proof of Provenance and Authenticity

Wayback Machine home page with Save Page Now section highlighted
Arweave wallet interface showing archived URL

Not So Fast… Is This Vintage NFT Truly “Unique”??

Finally Finding Our Egg

Twitter’s original 13 egg colors. Source: https://twirpz.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/egg-timer-the-history-of-twitters-default-profile-pic/
Our Dark Blue Twitter Egg! One of only 11 known to exist.

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