Dead Ringers by Dmitri Cherniak. Every day in January 2022 Cherniak generated a new output from an algorithm, generated a random wallet address, and sent the work to that address.
It was almost guaranteed none of the wallets that received Dead Ringers would ever be accessible given there are 16 to power of 40 available addresses.
"I hoped it would help observers appreciate the vastness of the address space and the underlying security it provides to the network used to distribute the work". Dmitri Cherniak
While the distribution of individual Dead Ringers was extremely fair, as it protected against bots and ballot stuffing, it was also extremely unlikely that they would ever be collected.
For that reason, observers ascribed value to their scarcity and the odds of receiving one.
"The Dead Ringers Edition flips that notion on its head".
"On the final day, January 31st, all the previous Dead Ringers were placed in a 5 by 6 grid and minted to a generated address".
Now an edition of January 31, 2022, colloquially known as the Dead Ringers grid, was available to all wallets as a 24-hour timed edition, capped at the size of 16 to the power of 40
"That is the total number of possible wallets, and each wallet is entitled to own one if they should wish".
"The ERC1155 token points to the same PNG file on Arweave that the original January 31, 2022 referenced, meaning the underlying artwork is exactly the same file as the sought after original".
"To celebrate Ringers birthday and its demise, Dead Ringers Edition was minted 23,469 times over a 24 hour time period, raising enough to support 16 million meals according to the calculator at the @FoodBank4NYC". Dmitri Cherniak. Feb 1st, 2022. Shown below are the final token in the Dead Ringers series, alongside the edition piece. Interestingly the media URLS for both are identical, but the on-chain provenance tell a very different story