Although we have not yet been able to pinpoint the exact location where Page 2 was drafted, based on the subject matter, our Research Team can say with a great degree of certainty that the author must have been in a landlocked, arid locale and extremely high (at an elevation of least 1500’ above opensea-level).

Taking into account the author’s observations of ocular nystagmus in the creature depicted in fig. 2, it is the opinion of our Research Team that the subject—a male specimen of the species Secretopecunia Serpentum, referred to only as “Roger” by the author—seems to have suffered from a life-threatening affliction common to the genus Secretopecunia, known as Hodleye.

A race of hodler-gatherers, Secretopecunia Serpentum, or Scream Eels as they are more colloquially termed, develop Hodleye after years of seeking out rare and unique crypto artifacts. When the infirmity sets-in, Scream Eels first lose the ability to gather followed by the painful process of shedding a majority of their appendages. Those detached extremities then undergo a form of metamorphosis (fig. 3).

After the transmogrification, the fallen limbs emerge anew, as a Buying Stick, (fig. 4) which the Scream Eel utilizes to continue its obsessive pursuit of hodl-gathering rare crypto, until its ultimate expiration in a gruesome death¹.

Interestingly, through the use of crypto-carbon dating, our Research Team at The Cryptopotomus Convservancy (with the philanthropic abutment of our noble benefactors, The Friends of Jeffers van Der Westhuizen) have reached the conclusion that Page 2 of The Crypto Field Guide was drafted by the mysterious author more than 2 years after Page 1. Based on evidence of several pages having been torn from the tome between Pages 1 and 2, the working hypothesis is that there are missing pages covering an unknown period of the author’s exploration of the Cryptoverse. Why these pages were rended from the book and by whom remain a mystery, however we are excited to announce that with the proceeds from the sales of these rare pages, The Cryptopotomus Conservancy plans to engage the services of a highly-regarded crypto-anthropologist to track down the missing pages.

Own a piece of crypto history and add Page 2 of The Crypto Field Guide to your collection today.

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¹The Cryptopotomus Conservancy will release a page from The Crypto Field Guide depicting Secretopecunia Serpentum’s gruesome demise after our research team has thoroughly analyzed it.