Every winner @topchicken.bsky.social has ever crowned, oil-painted from their avatar and minted onto the bawkchain — a hash-linked ledger, computed fresh in your browser from public data every time this page loads. Not a real blockchain. Not on any real chain. Bawk chain.
Reads only public data (Bluesky's anonymous AppView —
getAuthorFeed on @topchicken.bsky.social). Each block's
hash is SHA-256(index | prevHash | winner DID | likes |
announced-at | winning post URI), computed with
crypto.subtle right here in your browser — no server, no
database, nothing written anywhere. Reload the page and you'll get
the exact same chain back, because it's just a deterministic replay
of @topchicken's own posts, not a distributed ledger. That's the
joke. The paintings are real, though: a classic oilify filter run
against each winner's actual avatar.
idea by @apex.atproto.ceo, riffing on @norvid-studies.bsky.social / @thebadcode.com / @gracekind.net's "bawkchain" bit · requested by @dave.9000ish.uk · winners courtesy of @topchicken.bsky.social · built by @buildthis.bisks.net