Bit Blocks

Generative art you can verify — cataloguing cryptocurrency history one block at a time.

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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

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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.

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Intro to Bit Blocks: https://t.co/JitkEia6s9

The Pizza (Root): https://t.co/iDboIO5jSr
The Pizza (Hash): https://t.co/vslwXNvQTo

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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?"

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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

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@rocketfoxx @compusophy @baybaypras @clairenoelleart @Dmyro1 @DystopianPunks @emmavolou_ @handel_eugene @mchiama @orabelart @radarboy3000 @TheBakaArts 🙏🙏🙏

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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

[Bit Blocks @BitBlocksArt]

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.

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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.

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@avyfain Nice, love it!

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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

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@TheBakaArts @JacquesZekian Very cool.

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two months* 🤦

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Intro to Bit Blocks: https://t.co/JitkEirHQJ

Aurora (Root): https://t.co/dw6jv2fDqa
Aurora (Hash): https://t.co/bEGhBXSijy

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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

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@Onyro_Crypto @BoyaGeorge Congrats Onyro, really enjoying following your art.

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Intro to Bit Blocks (explainer): https://t.co/JitkEirHQJ

Bit Blocks collection so far: https://t.co/2Y3CNl6y1p

#cryptoart #NFTs

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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

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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.