sovrn.art

BANKNOTES Verified account @banknotes_btc · 5d

🪙 NEW ITEM ADDED TO THE SHOP - SHOWCASE!
🏛️ Now you can display your Commemorative Coins in a beautiful showcase for everyone who visits your house in The Lost Coin!
🎨 I've also added support for Cents @sovrnart
Turn your home into your own personal Ordinals museum! 🏠

View quoted post on X

centoshi Verified account @artonchain0x · 5d

No better day nor time to remind everyone :

The empire is doing Empire Things.

Just look at the coin it is holding, and consider what happened on 15 August 1971.

Artworks: “Empire Things” by @XCOPYART and 1971 CENT by Rutherford Chang

View quoted post on X

shibboleth Verified account @shibboleth88 · Oct 31

published 18 years ago today

& the implications & affordances for art are still sinking in.

Bitcoin introduces the capacity for digital objects to have defining characteristics of physical objects

creating a new kind of objecthood that is native to the digital era, an objecthood whose meaning is not reliant on the brittle force of decree, but continually emerges from the relationships and interactions that constitute its existence.

This is, in my view, one of the most important things that Rutherford Chang's CENTS embodies and expresses. A systems artwork that performs the processes through which objects acquire identity, meaning, and value in digital reality.

Satoshi says:
"We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures."
Chang's CENTS says: We define a chain of digital signatures as an object whose substance is its history.

This is not simply a new way to own or distribute art, but an expansion of what an artwork can be and do.

And I find it striking that this quality of Bitcoin art (and of blockchain as a medium in general) is still largely under-recognized, even among the Bitcoin art scene (let alone the Bitcoin scene overall). But I have no doubt that it will be known, because it posses the structural integrity of truth. (If you don't believe me or don't get it...)

And a fun fact: the Bitcoin whitepaper refers to the smallest unit as a "cent" (it was not until nearly 3 years later that they became known as "satoshis").

HBD BTC WP

View quoted post on X

Pindar Van Arman Verified account @VanArman · Oct 20

Featured Collector of the Day @osseneth

I’ll admit, though, I’m curious who told you about the bitGANg and what drew you to them, as opposed to my more critically acclaimed AI portrait collections?

View quoted post on X

The Pandemonium Verified account @ThePand3monium · Oct 9

Announcing the newly upgraded, updated, and refurbished OrdiGallery experience.

This new build elevates your OrdiGallery experience.

A brand new premium experience awaits those who hold a Bird of a Feather or an OrdiGallery Pass on BTC (with so many Easter Eggs to enjoy). 🧵

View quoted post on X