The Fiat Pyramids series is my visual meditation on the nature of modern money—beautiful in design yet constantly eroding in value. These animated works combine AI-generated currency art with 3D modeling to create infinite structures that mirror the endless cycle...
1776 Banknotes. One revolution. Run with us. Bank Runners by Lucho Poletti When banks fail, only the fastest runners make it out. Bank Runners is a collection of 1776 digital banknotes that embodies the revolutionary spirit of breaking free from...
STRUCK WITH INSPIRATION I was struck with inspiration to embark on a new project that pulls from my entire body of animated art and create a collection that combines all that art to reflect both: my personal experience in the...
Surveillance Capital: The Watchful Eye of the Digital Age "Do you ever feel like you're being watched?" Surveillance Capital is a thought-provoking animated artwork by Lucho Poletti that illustrates the disturbing reality of our current digital age. In an era...
Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole: A Journey into Decentralized Freedom Minted January 18, 2023 on SuperRare Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole is a visually stunning and thought-provoking animated artwork that takes the viewer on a journey through the depths of...
Eye of Providence: Surveillance, Control, and the Fight for Privacy "The Eye of Providence is commonly depicted as an eye surrounded by rays of light, enclosed in a triangle. It's associated with divine providence, the idea that a higher power...
Surveillance State: When Privacy Becomes a Luxury Minted December 15, 2022 on SuperRare "Do you ever feel like you're being watched? ..listened to? ..followed?" Surveillance State is the result of experimentation with AI and video collage — mixing and merging...
Cypher Deos is a seminal work of Bitcoin Renaissance Art by renowned crypto artist Lucho Poletti. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, Cypher Deos uses a 3-piece triptych framework to deliver a compelling visual story about the issues...
Cypherpunk Paradise: Ascension to Digital Heaven "After our cypherpunk heroes have ascended to the network in the sky and triumphed over the devilish banksters, we get to see a glimpse of the cypherpunk paradise." -- Lucho Poletti Cypherpunk Paradise is...
Seven Levels of Fiat Inferno: A Descent into Monetary Hell "Abandon all savings, ye who enter here." Seven Levels of Fiat Inferno is a collection derived from Cypher Deos: Inferno -- the left panel of Lucho Poletti's seminal Bitcoin Renaissance...
Fiat Judgment: When the Monetary Scales Balance "And the debts of the world were weighed, and found wanting." Fiat Judgment is a Bitcoin Renaissance artwork by Lucho Poletti, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's "The Last Judgment" triptych. Just as Bosch depicted...
I'm proud to present my latest bitcoin art collection, "Moneta Divina". Three animated bitcoin artworks Each of the three artworks uses a steampunk visual style reminiscent of 'Sound Money Stronghold' and focuses on issues with the dollar-based fiat money system, presenting bitcoin as the solution to...
"Faster than a run on the banks! More anonymous than 'Anonymous'! Destroyer of middle men & protector of cyber freedom. It's Super Satoshi!" In 2021, I created Super Satoshi -- an animated origin story that reimagines the superhero genre through...
Digital art lives on screens. But the message of Bitcoin belongs in the physical world—on street corners, lampposts, bathroom mirrors, and anywhere else people's eyes might land. The IN BITCOIN WE TRUST campaign brought my art off the blockchain and...
The year a cypherpunk dream was turned into code The final '2008' NFT artwork is a 3-minute animation about the year a toxic debt bubble caused a global financial crisis. The year bitcoin was invented: 2008. Year one in the historic...
I'm proud to present my latest bitcoin art collection, 'Novus Moneta Seclorum'. The NFT collection drops TODAY, Monday Nov 9th at 7PM ET on niftygateway.com. Follow on twitter for more updates. Novus Moneta Seclorum is a wordplay on the latin...
AudioVisual Bitcoin Art I'm pleased to announce that my AudioVisual Bitcoin Art Collection, a milestone release for my art career, is finally complete and ready for release! AudioVisual Bitcoin Art Collection (Teaser Preview) from Lucho Poletti on Vimeo. For the...
Freedom Money is the third and final piece to be released Sep 3rd on Nifty Gateway, to complete the AudioVisual Bitcoin Art collection: The first piece, Quantitative Hardening focuses on the history of bitcoin's monetary policy. The second piece, Gold With Wings focuses...
Gold With Wings - Audiovisual Bitcoin Art (Preview) from Lucho Poletti on Vimeo. Gold With Wings is the 2nd part of the 3-piece Audiovisual Bitcoin Art collection dropping September 3rd on Nifty Gateway. This piece, in contrast to "Quantitative Hardening" which focuses...
Quantitative Hardening - AudioVisual Bitcoin Art (Preview) from Lucho Poletti on Vimeo. This artwork, titled Quantitative Hardening will be released in video format via Nifty Gateway next Thursday, September 3rd. It's a spin-off of the art I created for ColdKey.eu's third bitcoin...
While SuperRare and KnownOrigin were the pioneering curated platforms, Rarible emerged as a more open marketplace that democratized NFT creation. I saw this as an opportunity to reach new collectors and experiment with different types of releases. Why Rarible? Rarible's...
