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A story of how a Sanskrit message and a set of poring eyes brought together Hashmasks twins “Mansa and Jim.”
Sanskrit message leads to Hashmasks discovery
User finds easter egg in HashmasksA user discovered a message directly derived from Sanskrit . These specialised tokens - not fungible - are set of over 16,030 unique artworks designed by more than 70 artists. The past week, some of these unique artworks were sold for over 420 ETH each.
Their concept began in 2013, but became famous several years later with the launch of Crypto Kitties. trent e, who is also one of the developers of DeFi, found a set of twins (the only ones found in the entire piece).
Since discovering the hashmasks announcement tweet, I've done little but look at them — easily 20 hours just staring at them.twenty straight hours ago that obsession came to fruition. I am delighted to introduce you to 'The Real' and 'The Unreal', the two rarest masks behind 'The Unmasked'.@trentelme (@trentelme) February 5, 2021Last week, after the launch of Hashmasks, Trent examined all the projects to spot anomalies, similarities, and other nuances between them.
since discovering the hashmasks announcement tweet, i've done little but look at #hashmasks — easily 20+ hours just looking through them.
a couple days ago that obsession paid off. i'm happy to introduce "The Real" and "The Unreal"
the rarest masks behind the unmasked. https://t.co/K5UzcaMsMq pic.twitter.com/0wN5n36oTi
— trent e (@trentelme) February 5, 2021
Last week, after the launch of Hashmasks, Trent pored over the entire collection to discovered anomalies, similarities, and other nuances of the projects. Because image #3550 was save by a different image compression level, this appeared as a large file.
#9934 is 3.4 MB in size. But 6384 masks later, Trent ended up discovering a twin mask, one whose unique characteristics did not match with those of the initial one.
what an brilliant easter egg!
but i looked at the interface below, oh wait, the traits listed do not match the mask.
like a total fucking nob, i messaged the hashmask team alerting them of an interface issue on this mask
this will easily be a 100+ ETH mistake pic.twitter.com/hkOkzA4jt8
— trent e (@trentelme) February 5, 2021
Trent immediately pinged the Hashmasks team about the possible ‘error.’ ...Hashmasks were genuinely freaked out when I told them this.
He said, “Never entirely trust anyone, especially anonym, in this realm.” What is his reasoning? One is that the initial indexes were "1000 different" when the file quality was "1 different." ?? #3550 has a file size of 2.7 MB. Can that also be considered a coincidence or a rogue effort?
The team added that the only real differentiators of these two Hashmasks were the name, the index numbers and Hashmask numbers, and the data size of the image file.
“These are the only two identical Hashmasks in the entire collection, and we embrace them. Who knows, maybe the twins will someday be reunited in the same account.”
But questions remain
Despite the team’s explanation, Trent said that some questions lingered. A concept known as Crypto Kitties has existed since 2013, but has gained popularity with the launch of the Crypto Kitties app in 2017. The only instance of “twins” was found by “trent e" (One of the Yam Finance developers) in a post. After finding the hashmasks tweet, I've done little but look at them. I've spent more than 20 hours just looking through them. Two days ago, the obsession paid off.
It gives me great pleasure to present "The Real" and "The Unreal," two masks that were once known only to the unmasked. Trent scanned the entire collection of projects, after the launch of Hashmasks, last week to look for anomalies, similarities, and other nuances. After spending hours searching, he noticed a Sanskrit prayer printed on one of scans. It initially struck him as a unique occurrence and he continued his research.
my personal theory is this was a rogue move by a single dev within the team, who implemented the duplication without the knowledge of the rest of the team
this is the only thing that explains both the panicked announcement and absurd number of coincidences
— trent e (@trentelme) February 5, 2021
Trent even stated that the Sanskrit line itself was the name of a prayer in which the first line says “real and unreal.” After hours, the team announced the occurrence was due to a human error that caused the image #3550 to reflect the original image of #9934. However, if you look in the provenance page, it isn't identical, since the hashes for #9934 and #3550 are unique.
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