- Collector
- jwpe · @0xjwpe · jwpe.eth
- Motto
- Pro servitio Vitae
- Holdings
- 351 AB[500] works · 129 series · 3 wallets
- abTDH
- 48,911,304 · · method
Entry into blockchain and crypto art
jwpe discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and has collected NFTs since late 2017, when friends made CryptoCats; he still holds them. An early crypto-art purchase was a 2018 print by the street artist Ludo referring to the Bitcoin logo.1
"Art Blocks was my entry point, and Terraforms (2021), a work by the Mathcastles studio, is where I'm at today," he said in 2026.1 He is honest about the start: "I collected Art Blocks pieces that I could afford and appreciated aesthetically, and made zero attempt to understand the code that generated them."1
Art Blocks holdings
His three wallets hold 351 AB[500] works across 129 series. The earliest still held arrived on 22 November 2021, and 259 arrived in 2022: "I lament missing the early days of Art Blocks in 2021."1 The deepest positions are Matty Mariansky's Para Bellum (18) and Matto's FOCUS (17), then 3 Minute Meditations and Time Atlas (7 each). The canon appears in single works: four Meridian, Incomplete Control #11, Archetype #480 and Chromie Squiggle #9050.
"I am quite sentimental, and would often hold onto certain pieces, even when they became worthless, which was most of the time," he has said.1
Associated holdings
He was part of the team supporting the Tribute Labs DAO network, which includes Flamingo, and his attention is now on Mathcastles' Terraforms, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and on-chain computational work.1 "One consistency in my approach over the years has been collecting at the edge of what I am able to grasp conceptually."1