But that early #Bitcoin code hides another secret: an entirely different genesis block — with a different hash. That $BTC block generated these artworks.
All this happened in November 2008.
By January, the Chancellor was on brink of second bailout for banks...
#cryptoart#NFTs
In 2014 — a half-decade before @elonmusk — #Dogecoin pumped 50% in one day for a very different reason: its community raised 26 million $DOGE to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Back then, 26 million DOGE fetched 35 $BTC, a sum worth about $30,000.
4 | The Pizza
Most of us know the tale of Laszlo Hanyecz and the two pizzas for 10,000 $BTC in May 2010 ($40 then, $480 million now).
But did you know: after getting no pizza after three days, Hanyecz offered even more #Bitcoin?
"Is the bitcoin amount I'm offering too low?"
Fun fact: Hanyecz is likely the first person to release software to mine #Bitcoin with GPUs, and they mined all their $BTC via an Nvidia 9800 GTX+ on MacOS.
As for what happened to the 10,000 BTC, at least one person bought a house with their ‘pizza bitcoins.’
#cryptoart#NFTs
These artworks were generated using the Hash and Merkle (Root) of #Dogecoin's genesis block.
Intro to Bit Blocks: https://t.co/JitkEirHQJ
Dogecoin Genesis (Hash): https://t.co/BtvsyjEBkv
Dogecoin Genesis (Root): https://t.co/RmAXkzMMQb
#cryptoart#NFTs
In 2014 — a half-decade before @elonmusk — #Dogecoin pumped 50% in one day for a very different reason: its community raised 26 million $DOGE to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Back then, 26 million DOGE fetched 35 $BTC, a sum worth about $30,000.
This was the first time Jamaica’s bobsledders had competed at the Winter Olympics in 12 years.
But $DOGE collapsed in the months following. The ‘joke crypto' with a heart of gold wouldn’t return to Jamaican-bobsled levels until 2017, before collapsing AGAIN until… @elonmusk.
0 | Aurora
In November 2008 — three months before #Bitcoin went live — Satoshi Nakamoto asked for help.
Via cypherpunk haunt Metzdowd, Nakamoto sought “professional crypto geeks to review his project."
The legendary Hal Finney responded, as did Bitcointalk user Cryddit.
$BTC
But that early #Bitcoin code hides another secret: an entirely different genesis block — with a different hash. That $BTC block generated these artworks.
All this happened in November 2008.
By January, the Chancellor was on brink of second bailout for banks...
#cryptoart#NFTs
2 | Decennium
3 January, 2019: #Bitcoin trades for $3,800 as its blockchain turns 10 — a milestone that birthed the #ProofofKeys movement to get $BTC off exchanges and into self-custody.
At the time, Bitcoin's market cap was about $70 billion.
#cryptoart
Decennium is the second piece in this series, which documents #Bitcoin’s push to a market cap beyond $1 trillion.
Trillion Run catalogues the major events in Bitcoin within the red square on the chart.
The Michael Bay lens flare indicates where Decennium fits on that scale.