We are so early. Even Collectors/PSA owner doesn’t get it. Read in full.
PSA vaulted 10,000 cards in 1st month.
#PaniniBlockchain is just sportscards vaulted.
You ask, how to withdraw?
This ether/opensea bridge is precisely the withdraw to complete the analogy.
I know Nat for 16 years.
I’m one of biggest curators and vouchers for physical cards.
I’m also one of guys that spent most on grading in recent years among the highend collectors I know ($75k for grading 4 cards in a recent order alone).
I have a lot of love and deep respect to what Nat has done and transformed for the great hobby.
But for this take, I have to cite one of Nat’s own comments in another setting before, “agree to disagree”.
Nat also doesn’t like non-playing days cards. But Jordan Exquisite is literally one of best categories pushing the hobby envelope now, $13M Kobe/Jordan dual, 7 of non-playing days Jordan selling above $1M (5 of them above $2.9M) vs only 5 $1M sales for MJ playing days cards.
Temporary consensus or powerful voices don’t mean they are forever right.
Internet has to arrive, Smart Phones have to arrive, BTC/stablecoins have to arrive, AI/agents have to arrive, assets fully on chain have to arrive (which BlackRock/SEC will see fully happen over next 2-3 years) and sports cards cannot be left behind in this latter movement.
Ethereum bridge removes any third party risk and allows those assets to last for millennia.
Crypto category is very big in comparison to sports cards, 15x in my rough calculation (3T vs 200B sports cards).
PaniniBC cards can be a literal/metaphoric bridge to funnel/onboard crypto traders and digital asset collectors (UBS/Art Basel recent research says over 51% of high networth individuals bought digital art in 2025) to physical hobby we will know and love for decades and stand for 160 years and counting.
It’s not either or or, it’s together, positive reinforcement of one another, 1 1 > 16 (here 1 15x) moment. Just my 0.00001 eth (2 cents).
#sportscard #whodoyoucollect #BlockbyBlock
[BC 181/1959]
oh yes, collecting imaginary things is way better