Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 7, Card 44 - SHREMPEPE by
@shawnleary. This is a 1/10,000 card with a circulating supply of 1,133 after 8,867 were sent to the burn address
1BurnPepexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAK33R in October of 2021.
The current floor price is .001 BTC ($62 USD).
103 wallets hold a copy of the card and Shawn is the largest holder with 22.2% of the total circulating supply (252/1,133).
A collector was trying to sell me one of these today which prompted me to go look at it. I then discovered that there is a signed sub-asset meaning the person being parodied on the card has seen it. I went to the official Rare Pepe Telegram chat to find out more about it.
SHREMPEPE is composed of Charlie Shrem's face superimposed over what I believe to be a cotton-top tamarin, a small New World monkey. Both images were then tinted pepe green. The background is that of the company Shrem founded, the now-defunct BitInstant.
The text on the card makes reference to the fact that Shrem was one of the earliest Bitcoiners (investing as a college senior in 2011), is in fact a very hairy individual, went to prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road and that the Winklevoss twins invested in Bitinstant.
In talking with Shawn today, I learned that after Shrem got out of prison he collaborated with him a bit on the making of this card. Charlie's only request was to "make it the hairiest pepe ever created". In my opinion Shawn nailed it!
Further reading:
Charlie Shrem -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charli…
BitInstant -
bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/bitinst…
Cotton-top tamarin -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton…
Silk Road (marketplace) -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_R…
Winklevoss Capital Management -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkle…
Jewish Federation of Greater Orange County article, "The Man Bitcoin Built and Then Destroyed" -
jewishorangeny.org/jewish-li…