The following 22 pieces have been inscribed as a collection on Bitcoin—cryptographically linked forever to the following artist [grandparent] and collection [parent] inscriptions.
Since parent-child inscriptions have not yet been formally integrated into the Ordinals protocol, the following pieces are indexed in Ord with negative inscription numbers—that is, they are “cursed.”
The original idea was just that: transpose classical artworks so they read right to left, instead of left to right—an homage to the negative numbers side of a horizontal axis.
But the project evolved—and soon enough I was writing. My love letter to… Bitcoin, Ordinals, and everyone I’ve met along the way.
Each of the vignettes below are inscribed forever on-chain as EXIF files in the metadata of their corresponding image. As it turns out, Bitcoin is a great medium for poetry.
Cafe Terrace at Night | Vincent Van Gogh
I met Casey at a bitcoin meetup in December 2021. He chatted to a group of four or five of us about how you could theoretically put “NFTs on Bitcoin.” He talked about it nonchalantly—a casual ideation he was batting around in his spare time. I didn’t pay much attention.
American Gothic |
Grant Wood
Since our country’s founding, each subsequent American generation has seen a relative increase in quality of life, purchasing power, and overall acquisition of goods and services—until now. Despite increased productivity and technical
innovation, Millennials will be the first American generation to end up, on average, less wealthy than their parents.