Artwork

Surveillance State
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 AI-generated images, video footage, and elements from my vector-based artworks and animations. The concept:...
Cypher Deos: Bitcoin Renaissance Art
 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...
Moneta Divina
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...
Chronicles - 2008
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...
Novus Moneta Seclorum
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: September 3rd Drop on Nifty Gateway
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 (AudioVisual Bitcoin Art)
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)
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)
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...
Virus en Numeros: Animated Bitcoin art inspired by Alex Grey, COVID, & They Live
My latest animated artwork, 'Virus en Numeros' ties together influence from different sources to deliver a powerful image that promotes bitcoin as better money, spreading like a virus that uses computer code and a decentralized network. The title 'Virus en...
A ₿etter Future (Satoshi´s Citadel v2)
Satoshi´s Citadel (v1) inspiration The inspiration for this artwork, originally titled ´Satoshi´s Citadel´ comes from the original bitcoin time traveler reddit post. Although the infamous reddit post paints a bleak picture of the future post ´hyperbitcoinization´, I set out to paint...
The Creation and Destruction of Global Money Systems

Using a combination of bank note and digital painting styles, this art piece presents a new take on the proliferation of Bitcoin and its inherent duality, representing both the creation and destruction of global money systems.

This piece packs a visual punch with references to bitcoin and eastern mythology. The piece uses analogies to highlight the importance of bitcoin as a money system and the implications of bitcoin's mass adoption on the central banking system.

Let AI do the Job - The singularity is here
The thought that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) will one day trigger runaway growth is scary to a lot of people. Depending on how well you understand the technology and its implications, you might feel anywhere from excited to...
Currency of Resistance - Bitcoin for Argentina
This art piece is based on Argentina's 100 Peso bank note, featuring Eva Peron's image.Argentina's national currency has a long track record of rampant inflation due to corrupt government leaders, unsustainable debt, and poor fiscal policy. The primary message of this...
JFK Artwork - Dissenters & Elect the Dead
Although I try not to focus on actual "politics", meaning government politics and political leaders with my non-crypto focused project, ironically titled pololitics, there are some political leaders that I do like to make art about. One of these is...
Illusion of choice
There's a difference between selecting OPTIONS from a list and CHOOSING what you think is right, what you think is best. Do you really think you have a stake in the outcome? Participating in the electoral process? Two Political Parties....
People for Freedom for People - Bitcoin art piece
Here is the latest piece in my Bitcoin art series, People for Freedom for People. The image draws on Egyptian symbolism to draw attention to the importance of Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency movement, as well as to communicate some messages as to...
Day of the Dead "Dia de Muertos" new Bitcoin art piece
Lucho Poletti, a.k.a. hodlcrypto, shares with us his freshly baked last work commemorating the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday focused on gatherings to pray for and remember friends and family members who died, and help support their spiritual...