What up XRPL'ers! I'm inspired. The @monxofficialx mint seems to have made some big waves on-chain. Lovers. Haters. Everything in between. What I've noticed is that the XRPL Art Community is out in full force with various opinions on the matter and I'd like to run a contest for my company @bullishblends to harness some of this creative energy. Ya see, I'm no artist by any stretch of the imagination. My lane is coffee roasting. That is where my artistry shines. But I love the visual arts, the XRPL and the community of artists I've recently come to discover in this space. I've started to amass a personal NFT collection as well as a collection of NFTs that my holding company will maintain ownership of. Both collections will continue to grow over time and I look forward to future mints and acquiring past grails for each. That said, Java Bull needs a proper PFP and I wanted to see if the greater art community on the XRPL would be interested in such an undertaking? For full transparency, I'm engaged in the current procurement of commissioned pieces and conversations for purchase of such pieces with artists of my choosing and will continue to approach other artists on the XRPL for future opportunities. I'm here to spread love and zerps while hopefully garnering trust from y'all along the way. I was thinking: - Source Coffee Treasury puts up 77 XRP (initial pot) - Each entry is 5 XRP to the pot (skin in the game) - Multiple entries per artist permitted - Winner takes all Willing to rope @Stone_XRPL in to run the pot since I'm new to the scene and understand trust in this space is earned. Additional ideas. All entries submitted could be a Collection for the Coffee & Crypto Space to mint and use the funds for whatever endeavors they find meaningful to the community... Tax from post mint sales could further fund Coffee & Crypto initiatives. Seems to be a pretty inclusive, trusted space on X so... I've tagged some folks to ensure no echo chamber. You don't have to comment and if you'd like to not be included in such posts in the future, please advise. Fade the Haters. Build with Makers. Java Bull out! ☕️🐂 @ArtistByron @RareInkStudio @instalustraitor @BlueGrasshoppa @Illyriannft @WhisperMyName @EmperorChing589 @MrScribbles @Pheanor589 @mrcauliman

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XRPLers!!! The Ledger is so ALIVE! What a trip!! Thank you so much @dfart2287 for the amazing UNLISTED 1/1!! You didn't have to reply to my posts. You did though. You didn't have to send me a DM offering an unlisted 1/1. You did though. You didn't have to create a memorable moment for a new supporter of your amazing art. You did though. So appreciate the art you create and the memories you create outside of your art. Take notes folks. This is how it's done. Java Bull is one happy cow! How can I NOT be?!?!?! Check out this GRAIL from Dale!!!

You came highly recommended. Can’t wait to get down on a mint! Anything forthcoming? First of many for me. Cheers! @dfart2287

Peek-A-@BooXRPL I’m in the crew!!

Every artist on-chain can have their own curated gallery. The build continues to evolve. I imagine on-chain transactions happening within a tile. Stake your claim and use the utility. I wanna see art galleries, storefronts, coordinated pixel image creations btwn neighboring tiles over vast regions!!

Nah. Haven’t y’all heard of HAARP? They’ll turn that bad boy to eleven. The show must go on!

Am I the only one getting 5 8 9 vibes here?

Holla atcha boy! Needz!

GM ☕️

Locked in! Others look for exits. PROFITEERS know the end from the beginning.

Boutique Art

Maybe they like the ETFs? Inflows there for sure.

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This one is special y'all! Can't wait for the 15th, the 20th, and the joy and laughs to come! @OgrePFPs @UUNITE_XRPL $UNITE caught my eye recently. Saw the Custom Collection and bout fell out!! Love me some pixel art. All I can say is, Bar Set! Now I gots one!!! Gotta add your name to the shortlist of commissioned pieces for @bullishblends

The Raffle Pot is officially over! 🎉 Huge congrats to the winner, and a massive thank you to the $UNITE team for blessing the swamp with Lady Unity Angel #376. Love seeing communities come together like this on the XRPL. Much love to $UNITE We appreciate you all! 💚🪽 ogrexrp.xyz/#giveaways

Want art in the mail from me? Win a small physical Zombie Cat Art package shipped to your home. Bonus entry if you're also a $HORDE holder. Show your Sketchy Cat, drop your wallet to verify (or DM) Winner on Monday No Sketchy Cat? Mint one on @xrpcafe

Not the world’s first. Just the first in to be made publicly aware. Your question is valid but he’s not the issue. The ones that hide their wealth are.

First it was the mint price. Then it was the art. Tomorrow it’ll be something else. What I don’t get is when people started expecting NFTs and memes to make perfect sense. The entire crypto industry is built on markets deciding value, not logic deciding value. Some of the biggest winners in this space looked ridiculous before they looked genius. That’s the game. A jpeg doesn’t need your approval. A meme doesn’t need a roadmap. A collectible doesn’t need to justify its existence. Art is subjective anyway. One person sees nothing, another sees everything. That gap is usually where value shows up. The market either cares or it doesn’t. What surprises me more is how fast people rush to tear things down now. I remember the NFT IOU days on XRPL. People were throwing thousands of XRP for single IOU token long before standards existed. Nobody was asking for a dissertation on why something had value. People simply took the risk. Some won, some lost, everyone understood the assignment. Today a project sells out in minutes and half the timeline turns into a panel of experts explaining why it shouldn’t have happened. But it did. That’s the thing about markets. They don’t ask for permission. If you’re building your own project, focus on that. The easiest thing in crypto is criticizing. The hardest thing is creating. Let the dev cook. Not everything has to make sense before it has value, and not everything that makes sense ends up valuable. Crypto has always been weird. That’s kind of the point.

Winning X currently in the day! ZING!!