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Bitcoin is a network. So is this.

These are the artists, builders and writers whose work I check on. Nobody paid to be here and no link is an affiliate. The web got worse when everything moved inside five apps, and this page is the small correction I can make.

Artists

Trevor Jones, Azrael: a winged figure in white war paint holding a sword, against a crimson backdrop

Azrael

Trevor Jones. Scottish painter who put augmented reality inside oil on canvas and dragged crypto art into the gallery conversation.

Brekkie von Bitcoin: an eye carved in stone with the Bitcoin symbol in its pupil

Brekkie von Bitcoin. Carves Bitcoin into stone, which is about as low time preference as art gets.

Coldie, Eterno: a stacked collage portrait with an eye, a mouth and fighter jets cut from vintage print

Eterno

Coldie. Stereoscopic 3D portraits of the people and moments that built this thing.

MLO, Radial Translation: a grid of nine blue radial patterns built from short strokes

Radial Translation

MLO. Martin Lukas Ostachowski, a Montreal artist who doubles as the scene's historian.

Flo Montoya, Hidden Tax: a black and white screen print collage of crowds and banknotes with the words Opt Out in red

Hidden Tax, 2025

Flo Montoya. Chilean screen prints and engravings, protest art you can feel the ink on.

Madex, Warfawkes: a Guy Fawkes mask under a crested helmet over a red sun, screen printed on aged paper

Warfawkes

Madex. Bitcoin fine art and regalia, and the creative director behind Bull Bitcoin's look.

Cypherpunk Now, Bitcoin White Paper 2026: two framed silkscreens of a T. rex in a suit as a meteor marked with the Bitcoin symbol falls

Bitcoin White Paper 2026

Cypherpunk Now. Martin Fischer's silkscreens of cypherpunk history, pulled in Prague.

Billy Restey, Metablocks: a dense field of glowing pink, blue and green blocks

Metablocks

Billy Restey. Generative ordinals out of Seattle. Metablocks and Cypherglyphs live on chain.

Marcus Connor, The Battle of Current Sea: a hand-drawn sea battle of sailing ships around a fortified island under a Bitcoin airship

The Battle of Current Sea

Marcus Connor. Drew the Bitcoin Roller Coaster Guy, the one every cycle ends up riding.

Josie Bellini, Her: a portrait of a woman wrapped in ribbons of neon color against a mint background

Her

Josie Bellini. Futurist crypto-art prints and paintings, cyber to the bone.

Pascal Boyart, Dollars Nakamoto: a framed portrait of a man in glasses built from cut dollar bills

Dollars Nakamoto

Pascal Boyart. Paris muralist who hid bitcoin inside his walls and put Satoshi on the dollar.

Max Osiris: a woman with her face wrapped in a checkered band, between a marble bust and a burning landscape

Max Osiris. Huge one-of-one canvases he calls transdimensional, and he means it.

Moxarra Gonzalez: a skeleton in a suit dissolving into black, teal and red candlestick charts

Moxarra Gonzalez. Was making crypto art back in 2018, long before the crowd showed up, and the work still bites.

Jivinci: pale blue fragments of a reassembled photograph

Jivinci. Builds images out of fragmented, reassembled photos to show how brittle the money, politics and tech holding us up really are.

Skeenee: neon green skeletons partying around a table under glowing signs

Skeenee. Tattoo artist who draws skulls and anatomy, and once burned his own physical originals to ask where the value actually lives.

Modeotec: circuit board traces arranged into a maze lit in gold

Modeotec. Makes Bitcoin art out of circuit boards, the hardware the whole thing runs on.

Builders, magazines and shows

niftytime: a glowing green sphere on a dark background

niftytime. Matthew helped me launch most of my Nifty Gateway releases and the Bank Runners. We worked those drops side by side.

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Timechain Art Magazine. Asanoha's print magazine for art shaped by Bitcoin, plus the Bitcoin Art Podcast.

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Bitcoin Magazine. Gave Bitcoin art a stage in front of the whole movement.

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