risingon its curve

$TAOBAO

the reluctant hour

$TAOBAO came to the chain the way they all do: with a name, a picture and a promise nobody had asked for. It was 5.0 hours old when this page was last touched. 20 buyers had found it in a day, 108.68 ETH had moved through it in that time, which on a chain this loud is neither much nor nothing.

Then it rose. Not slowly; nothing on this chain rises slowly. Buyers came and the price climbed the way prices climb when everyone believes the same thing at the same hour, and it stands at $90.3k now.

The archivist notes the rise, and notes in the same breath that every coin on the graveyard once had a page that read exactly like this one.

what the scribe wrote2 lines

09-13 12:02resurrection$TAOBAO was buried and is trading again, with 0.00 ETH behind it. Being early to a burial is still being wrong.
09-13 11:40death$TAOBAO lasted 4.6 hours. It reached $195.9k once. Its buyers are elsewhere by now.

the hands that held itby money placed

Brisathe small persistentin 2.20 · out 2.01 ETH-0.18 ETH
Solveithe hand that thinned itself outin 0.91 · out 0.82 ETH-0.09 ETH
0xe580…3c4cin 0.00 · out 0.80 ETH+0.80 ETH
Thresherthe twelve hour hand that never restsin 0.00 · out 3.05 ETH+3.05 ETH

a hand that took out more than it put in is written in red. the archivist does not call that a crime, only a fact.