Introduction
A deck unlike any otherThe Deck is a set of 53 NFT (non-fungible token) poker playing cards that were originally minted in 2016 on a blockchain known as Breakout Chain. Cards in The Deck are the usual playing cards consisting of Two of Clubs through the Ace of Spades, plus one Joker. Deck cards are true NFTs that can be transferred between users on the Breakout Chain blockchain. Each card is a single, unique, indivisible token that is distinct from any other token on the blockchain. A single person can hold multiple cards from The Deck.
The Deck was created to produce a card game in its most elemental form, with one implicit rule:
Make the best hand you can!
For example, two-pair beats one pair. Four-of-a-kind beats a full house, five-of-a-kind beats a royal flush, and so on. With only 53 cards, no duplicates, and the decentralized, pseudo-anonymous nature of the blockchain acting as a bottleneck, making a hand from The Deck represents one of the greatest gaming challenges ever invented.
The reward for making a hand in the Deck is the ability to flex it. To that end, the Breakout Chain wallet had incorporated into it the ability to display one’s hand, showing up to 15 cards, which was thought to be an upper bound for the number of cards an individual could conceivably collect.
An image from the testnet wallet shows how the cards would be arranged if 15 were present. Testnet cards were quickly distributed according to a fair lottery, so all these cards were never owned by a single person after distribution, even on testnet.
Link to the Original Bitcointalk Post January 8, 2016
Examples of flexes can be found on the original Multicurrency (the Breakout Chain testnet) and Breakout Coin bitcointalk.org threads.
In fact these threads host the first NFT flexes in history.
