100 PROOF Live: The Bull Market Has Begun - with guest Tony Herrera

November 12, 2023·1 hr 1 min·5 clips

Tony Herrera claimed 104 CryptoPunks from his desk in June 2017 using the Mist wallet — and no one believed him.

GM, GM, the room is already sideways. The opener has the usual 100 PROOF Live feel: disclaimers, Friday energy, Derek jokes, Amanda getting ribbed over the word community, and Justin taking the chair while travel stories hang around the edges. Derek is in New York. The panel keeps things warm and inside-baseball, explaining how a Tokyo return and a missed talk shuffled the lineup without making the show feel stiff. Then the sale talk sharpens. A curated gets treated as more than a mint. The crew points to a 7.7 high sale and real secondary buying as signs that collectors received it. The price matters, but it is not the whole read. Amanda and Justin start comparing how each of them spots conviction in a work. Amanda notices code and process first. Justin comes from the art side, less concerned with the technical build and more focused on whether the image lands. Their tastes meet on geometry. The strongest stretch is the shared enthusiasm for rigid 45-degree lines, hard structure, strong palettes, and the moment where the artist breaks that order into a whirlpool of motion. It sounds like collector shorthand in the best way. One side values the generative rules. The other values the visual disruption. Both end up at yes, just from different doors. The energy stays conversational. Nobody turns it into a lecture, even when the language gets deep into code, secondary sales, and artist process. The guest closes graciously. Amanda gets thanked for the reach-out, the crew jokes about Derek coming back, and the late-night version ends with plans for a bigger Friday setup next time: more vibe, music, a proper mixologist, less jet lag, and the regular 10 a.m. Pacific slot.

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A loose, insider-friendly PROOF conversation where market momentum meets a sharper argument about code, geometry, and taste.

Vaulted by PROOF catches 100 Proof Live in a looser, jet-lagged register, with Justin, Amanda, and collector-advisor Tony Herrera talking through a digital art market that suddenly feels alive again.

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For live NFT banter, a sharp collector debate, and a Friday market pulse.

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