I have created a topic about this before, I like the artwork, but I noticed the artwork does not depict about bitcoin in a way someone can easily recognized it is related to bitcoin. The art is expensive and it will be getting more expensive.
Christies auction house has announced the sale of a digital portrait of the Bitcoin code for more than $130,000. It marks the first time a non-fungible token (NFT) was auctioned at a major auction house, and the price exceeded expectations.
According to the auction house, an unknown buyer purchased "Block 21," comprised of a physical piece of art and an NFT representing Satoshi Nakamoto for $131,250 at Christie's on Oct. 7 as part of its Post-War and Contemporary Day Auction. Bidding started at $22,000.
The artwork, created by Ben Gentilli with the Robert Alice project, is one of 40 creations in a series, and holds exactly 322,048 digits of Satoshis original Bitcoin (BTC) code. The series, titled "Portraits of a Mind", shows the cryptocurrency's 12.3 million digits of original code individually engraved and painted on 40 different circular panels stretching more than 50 meters in length.
Portraits of a Mind, Block 21. Image: Robert Alice/Ben Gentilli
A portrait of Satoshi Nakamoto, in 40 partsThe artist behind this painstaking process, Ben Gentilli of the Robert Alice project, has called this collective piece Portraits of a Mind. Described as a digital fingerprint carved out of paint, each of the 40 individual pieces contains a chunk of the original code. Taken together, they represent a global portrait of Satoshi NakamotoBitcoins anonymous founder, who first released the cryptocurrencys original code in January 2009.
Bitcoins original codebase is like a historical document, and I wanted to celebrate it and preserve it in the same way as a document like the Magna Carta, Gentilli told Decrypt. But I also wanted to try and answer the question of how one might make a portrait of Satoshi Nakamoto, when there is no image of him.
Portraits of a Mind, he argues, depicts Satoshi through his work. For me, this work is a portrait of Satoshi, decentralized around the world, in the same way that Bitcoin itself is, he explained.
I wanted to try and answer the question of how one might make a portrait of Satoshi Nakamoto, when there is no image of him.
Ben Gentilli
The works themselves are canvas discs, 50.59in in diameter, layered with suspended pigment, and graphite and aluminum paint, with each digit individually engraved. Dotted here and there are gold digitsa metaphor for miningarranged in a constellation-like pattern of decentralization.
The series consists of 40 discs. Image: Robert Alice/Ben Gentilli
The artwork depicts the complete codebase of Bitcoin. Image: Robert Alice/Ben Gentilli
Portraits of a Mind artist Ben Gentilli, of Robert Alice. Image: Robert Alice/Ben Gentilli
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