Quine: computer program that produces a copy of its own source code as its output.
@larvalabs explores this concept as the final submission in the Art Blocks Curated series. In Quine, the code lives as both medium & subject.
Let's explore further, releasing October 9 ↓
onchain generative art series are networked art
with @artblocks_io capping the collection at 500 releases, it turns it into a kind of a fixed supply asset class featuring some of the most iconic onchain art ever created
very few understand this right now and what this will mean over the next 10 years for the entire collection's value...
Multimodal mappings
Left: Stellar Navigation Charts Converge (2025), fragment by @bottoproject in the Semantic Drift period
Right: You Are Here 11155111 (2024) by @0xShiroi currently on @ethereum
CENTS in Taschen
So far, the project has been featured at:
Art Basel
Christie's
The Bitcoin Conference
NFC Summit
Ordinals Tokyo
& now in a book from one of the world's largest art publishers ✊✊
This adds to the long list of places where Rutherford Chang's work has been featured, including:
The New Museum/Rhizome, NYC
The Container, Tokyo
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
House of World Cultures, Berlin
Academy of Arts, Berlin
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei
upcoming exhibitions of CENTS in New York and Beijing to be announced soon 👊👊
So excited to share that Rutherford Chang’s CENTS project is featured as the only Bitcoin art in the newest edition of TASCHEN’s legendary book >> On NFTs.
find CENTS in here ✊✊ out now
A survey of art on blockchain from one of the world's largest art book publishers, Taschen.
This new edition is a larger run of 20k that will be distributed widely at museum shops, art fairs and online.
It's an honor to see Rutherford Chang's work included here with a text by Philip Tinari, Director of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and with editorial text and curation by @robertalice_21.
Heft is auctioning two of my original Bitframes pen plots, along with their respective tokens minted last year. These will be on display this Saturday at @heft_gallery, and a percentage of proceeds from the sale will be going to @Generative_film.
→ https://t.co/LPioG82Dxj
made cents at a 1 sat mint
made cents at .001 as people learned
makes cents at .01 as the eco recovers
will make cents at .1 as leading Bitcoin Art
will make no cents at 1 😜 but that's also why it will happen. they do say the most entertaining outcome is the most likely. and this is indeed an artwork whose essence is transforming the worthless into the priceless.
Introduction to EIPs, ERCs, RIPs.
EIP: Ethereum Improvement Proposal
Protocol-level changes, enforced by the Ethereum clients.
Activated via hardforks.
Full nodes must upgrade, else fork to opt-out.
ERC: Ethereum Request for Comments
Application layer standards.
Conventions for Solidity, calldata, storage, signatures.
Opt-in. Adoption -> network effects.
RIP: Rollup Improvement Proposal
Provincial laws for rollup city-states.
Opt-in for L2s. Opt-out for nodes within an L2.
May lead to EIPs.
The numbers are shared between EIPs, ERCs, RIPs, assigned sequentially by maintainers.
To start one, you will first need to open an Ethereum Magicians forum thread, then make a draft which links to the thread. After which, the specific process depends.
Examples:
EIP-7939: Count Leading Zeros (CLZ)
An opcode in the upcoming Fusaka hardfork that can speed up math operations with smaller bytecode. As a basic math operation that costs as much as a 256-bit `ADD`, this is most suitably implemented as an opcode, which is most suitably implemented as an EIP.
ERC-7631: Dual Nature Token Pair
Interfaces for how a co-joined fungible and and non-fungible token pair can signal their relationship. Opt-in standard. Allows for better discoverability, better UX.
RIP-7767: Gas to Ether contract
A contract that burns gas and returns a portion of the gas burned to the caller as the native currency. Due to the adventurous nature of this proposal, this could be piloted as a pre-compile / pre-deploy on rollups first. The tentative mainnet analog is EIP-7791 (GAS2ETH opcode).
Difficulty to get adoption / inclusion:
EIP > RIP > ERC (approximately)
To explain why, each of these deserves their own elaboration in separate threads, best left for future content.
The CryptoPunks are completely and truly decentralized, created outside the bounds of traditional company or even artist control. Because of this, the Punks’ impact and reach come from a new series of online network effects among its creators, owners, and fans. The NODE foundation adds a new entry in that list, a digital art institution dedicated to the education and advancement of this new kind of art. We believe @nodefnd, and its non-profit long term focus, to be the perfect home for the Punks’ promotion and protection. Therefore, we’re delighted to be joining the board of NODE and will be working directly to assist on a number of upcoming projects to properly showcase what makes the Punks so unique. We would also like to thank @yugalabs and especially @NaughtalieStone for their careful stewardship of the project for the past few years, we look forward to working with you on this foundation together.
[ Sign of the Times ]
New networked edition
- Fully onchain music
- Eth L1
- CC0
- Dynamic
It reinterprets ‘Beginning to Believe’ in real time, dynamically reading notes from the current Lens
🔊
Without Bitcoin, the only significant freedom movements on the internet would be Tor/VPNs and Torrents/Piracy.
The internet will penetrate every pore of our civilization. Every aspect of life.
The stakes are immense, the mission is monumental. Open-source is the only option.