🧑🏫Study
Class is in session! Come and learn Bitmon, with a taster class led by a living whitepaper!
Ah, so you'd like to learn more about the wonderful world of Bitmon!
You've come to the right place. There is so much to learn.
My name is Sir Whitepaper, the living Whitepaper. I was brought to life by Professor Blockamoto who inscribed me onto a satoshi, can you believe it?
So now I spend my time collecting and sharing as much knowledge as possible about the Bitmap world. One particularly hot area of research right now is the curious creatures known as Bitmon.
What are Bitmon, you ask?
Well, to understand Bitmon is to understand Bitmap. Why?
Well, not only do Bitmon inhabit the Bitmap world...
A Bitmon is actually special type of Bitmap.
When the Bitmap world was discovered upon Bitcoin, the mapping systems of @mononautical were adopted (to his chagrin) as one of the main consensus methods for rendering Bitmaps. This system is broken down by Bitlodo, who utilized this system to identify 3630 patterns of Bitmap that occur more than once. Now, with Bitmon Theory, we recognize each one of these patterns as a Bitmon. Many Bitmon have similar base patterns, and sub-patterns that can be identified as species and traits, respectively.
An early Bitmap pattern that was identified was the Punk, which in the Bitmon world is considered to be its own species. There are multiple different Bitmon patterns that follow the ruleset of the Punk species, and each one is its own type of Punk. For example, a wide-neck punk.
Are you following?
Currently, at the time of writing, only certain Punks are recognized by marketplaces, which means rarer Punks are hidden gems that cannot be filtered easily by buyers. This creates an opportunity for treasure hunters who know how to locate these rarer punks. This is an example of Bitmon hunting. However, not only are the Punks underrepresented in the Bitmap marketplace ecosystem but there is so much more to the world of Bitmon than Punks.
There are 3630 Bitmon as of today!
Some Bitmon are part of a wider unidentifiable species, like a Punk, or a Slime. Bitmon within a species have similar recognizable base patterns. The names of Bitmon and species are based on the appearance of the Bitmap patterns.
For example, we identify a species called Totem, which is defined by identical transactions that appear in a stack. You may find a stack of two transactions, which we can call Tustac, or you may find a Freestac. These are different Totem species Bitmon. Got it?
Whilst the 3630 patterns of Bitmap have been identified, they have yet to be named, and there is still much work to do in identifying Species and Traits. This is where you come in!
Blockamoto Labs is seeking your contribution. If you identify a species, trait, or name for a Blockamon we'd like to hear from you! If you own a Bitmon, please post your rationale on Twitter with the hashtag #bitmon and send a link to the tweet to sirwhitepaper@bitmap.land. We will take name submissions on a first come first serve basis for Bitmon holders, in the spirit of Bitmap, as we build the Blockdex. You may be asked to verify your Bitmon. Happy naming!
And that concludes our study, for now. Time for me to go enjoy the holidays somewhere out in the woods, far from wrapping paper. I'll be back after the rippening is over! Check back soon for more from me, and remember to follow me at @sirwhitepaper.
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