Bitcoin Worms started off as "WormE" short stories i would read my children, but eventually this became a short Children's book i made with my daughter, the base design from this became our PFP collection, secured on the God of all chains, Bitcoin!
My idea started off simple, how can i let people inscribe my art but at a low cost, as originally our collection was made of PNGs, these files were very large over 30kb, 15 even when reduced.
So i started learning basic programming to find a way to put these guys on chain at the lowest possible fee, they became 870b some 640b!, this was a roaring success!
As a rookie programmer made this site and then opened the door to every degen on twitter for several hours. After an allotted time i called this to an end, i was slightly overwhelmed gathering all the images during indexing and ensuring each wasn't a duplication, few were thankfully the code was solid enough.
This was stage 1 in our Worms journey, i wanted to test how we could do this as a self inscribe project, with an average fee of $2 in a moderate mempool, i feel this was very successful, we in stage one have 723 worms inscribed open and fairly by our now holders. Which we have 135 currently.
As you can imagine i used up a lot of sats in the testing for the file and generator to work correctly, and within the structuring. To explain, your Bitcoin Worm is an .SVG image file, its made of code, in that code is layering. This layering points to each layer of your worm, its "Background", its "body", "eyes" and "mouth" this then builds your image from On-Chain base layers that are 400x400 PNG files.
As we have several of each layer, i will let you imagine how much i billed up doing these :D
But i enjoyed every minute. I left all my code open-Sourced and have showed a few how to use the same method to make their own collections, and welcome anyone asking questions to do their own :)
I enjoyed the challenge of making smth creative on Bitcoin and am here to stay, thanks for reading our little story so far.
Our Roadmap to Wormville
Season 1 of Bitcoin Worms was our launch and successful entry into the PFP ring. This was done as a fair launch Self-Inscribe, where in we hoped to teach as well as give a fun mint. Users had to navigate to our site, and use our "BitcoinWorm Generator" then download the .SVG export and inscribe themselves.
Our target range was 1000 worms, we called it a tad early sadly at 686, this was mostly due to me being the Artist and the project lead, its just one person here. I hastened to call it earlier as i was a tad over stretched and over estimated what was in the mempool.
But we see this as a successful start, with lessons learned for the future.
Some of our OG holders got some additional custom worms that i made, making our total just over 700 now.
Phase Two
Le Lil' Wiggles enter the arena, a small collection of 4269 demented offspring of the OG Worms. Currently in preperation for inscribing.
The Lil Wiggles will be the assets used in future game development, all OG worms will have a chance to get a free one or two. We will also take this opportunity to gather more holders and build up our little fledgling community.
Check @Bitcoinworms for updates and minting dates!
Join us!
!WiggleWiggle
Our Community Rune is WIGGLE•WIGGLE
Our Rune was fairly launched with a very small pre-mine to give 10,000 to each holder.
Holding our RUNES or OG Worms makes you a community member and welcomed.
For future WL and projects upcoming, OG worms will ALWAYS have a WL and those with a MINIMUM of the token too.
Come Wiggle with us!
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