Squiggle 9294: An Easter Egg Story

In a tweet thread about @dethretina & @mordicai_jones discovering and claiming @ArtOnBlockchain's hidden Squiggle 9294, ”The Bat”:

Early 2022, they caught Snowfro during an appearance of Rug Radio on 19 April teasing a squiggle he had placed in “the wild”. With no direction, they started isolating wallets holding 1-2 squigs, either directly mint or transfer from Snowfro/alts. We poured through old interviews and articles, gathering places and things that stood out as significant to his art career. They even looked at irl locations and physical clues!

The search heated and cooled over the summer and fall months. It wasn’t until 15 December when Snowfro offered up a number of new clues. The biggest revelation was Snowfro being inspired by the Protoglyph puzzle.They bookended his timeline setting with that solution going public (3/14) and the Rug Radio alpha drop (4/19). This window included The Bat mint (3/30). In fact, the window overlapped with Snowfro’s work on the collab with @garyvee for VeeCon tickets, which pays homage to the Squiggle. Seeing that the “Stunned” background traits in the VeeCon collection contained a very bat-like squiggle, they knew the treasure was real and near!

Keeping an eye out for numbers that might feed or convert to a private key, they scanned across all the Veecon ticket backgrounds, and the hand-written numbers in the “Brave” background jumped out. Converting the image to black-and-white, and raising the brightness, revealed a new set of numbers written in the darkest shade of gray. And so, after a long and arduous journey from their respective armchairs, they calmly converted the 32 boxes to hexadecimal and entered the private key to claim their reward - Chromie Squiggle 9294 - currently with a best offer of 10.11 WETH, and the collection floor price at 17.3ETH.

Looking forward to hear about new easter eggs that NFT creators of 2023 hide in their work.