Bitcoin Art Blog

Fiat is not a noun. It's Latin for let it be done. A decree, issued once, and nobody was asked. Bruegel painted that fury in 1563 and called it a sin. I keep the fury and move the sin upstream, to the machine with a dollar sign burning in its throat. One word is cut into the gate above the field: VERIFY. Everything else is a consequence of whether it was followed.

Ten of the most crowded and most furious paintings in Western art, by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, redrawn for the fiat age. Announced fifty-five years to the day after Nixon closed the gold window, with one piece arriving every two weeks from August 29th until the Bitcoin Genesis Block anniversary on January 3rd.

Ordinals put art directly on Bitcoin, the most permanent canvas there is. What inscriptions are, how they work, and where my on-chain work fits in.

Every print I sell is hand-signed, numbered, and verified on the Bitcoin blockchain via Verisart. How authentication works, and why don't-trust-verify applies to art.

Bitcoin art is the propaganda arm of a peaceful monetary revolution. A complete guide to the movement: where it came from, who makes it, and why it matters.

The Satoshi Mask started as a recurring face in my work and became my signature: anonymity, resistance, and the idea that we are all Satoshi.

1,776 animated digital banknotes on Ethereum. Bank Runners is my declaration of independence from the fiat system, printed as propaganda money.

I broke my entire body of animated art into loops and rebuilt it as three massive video collages: Uprising, Revolution, and Forward. The Bitcoin Movement tells the whole story at once.

An astronaut in an orange jumpsuit falls forever down the bitcoin rabbit hole. It starts with seeing fiat's flaws and ends in a world where decentralization thrives. Minted on SuperRare, January 2023.

Fiat money is meticulously crafted and designed to lose value. The Fiat Pyramids are infinite structures of AI-generated currency burning as it falls. Crisp bills at the top, ash at the bottom.

Do you ever feel like you're being watched? Surveillance State mixes AI imagery, video collage, and my vector work into a Bosch-inspired eye, minted on SuperRare in December 2022.

Five renaissance-style panels, hundreds of characters, animation and sound. Cypher Deos brings the old masters' scale to the monetary revolution.

Fiat Judgment stages the final reckoning of monetary sin. Every scene is an indictment of easy money, painted in the language of religious art.

Moneta Divina treats sound money as sacred: divine imagery meets monetary truth, in the series that took my work to large-format acrylic panels.

Why is Bitcoin orange? Why the circle, the tilt, the ₿? Bitcoin's visual language wasn't handed down from a marketing department. It grew like the network: organically.

Every click, search, and scroll is harvested and sold. Surveillance Capital puts an omniscient eye over that economy. If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

Eyes on pyramids, eyes on drones, eyes in every direction, and a few figures standing above the watched. Eye of Providence depicts the panopticon. Bitcoin is the exit. Released as a 1/1 on SuperRare.

Faster than a run on the banks. Super Satoshi is my masked hero fighting The Ruling Hand, built from 1940s Superman cartoons, Dragon Ball Z, and crypto culture.

Every dollar says 'IN GOD WE TRUST.' I printed thousands of stickers that answer back: IN BITCOIN WE TRUST. They landed on streets across the US, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.

2008: the year a toxic debt bubble broke the global economy and a cypherpunk dream became code. My most complex animation to date puts the cypherpunks in the sky and the bankers in a toxic debt swamp.

Novus Moneta Seclorum: a new money for the ages. Dollar iconography rebuilt around Bitcoin, released on Nifty Gateway in November 2020 in an edition of 21.