matthew aka niftytime

Forecasting at @QuotientHQ | Created @theWIPmeetup | Prev @Cent @Gemini @Samsung | @maxosirisart PFP | Gazer #196

[beng @basebeng]

CENTS is hands down the best art project I‘ve encountered in all of Crypto in 6 years

Mocking fiat while living on forever on Bitcoin Satoshis

It‘s not a get rich quick thing, it‘s a fun way to invest your money into Bitcoin, with more cultural relevancy while being hella early

[jordan olmstead @amphib0ly]

Just finished analyzing 434 predictions by 104 journalists, OSINT accounts, shit posters, and academics to see who was best at predicting the trajectory of the Iran conflict

Trita Parsi ranked 1st, and two hours ago he indicated that the U.S. is sleepwalking back into kinetic conflict

[jordan olmstead @amphib0ly]

All green today on Quotient
https://t.co/pQCrR1gUjl

[Aleksandra Art 🇺🇦 @aljaparis]

"The Monet Room", @MattKaneArtist, 2019

ikyk 🪷

[░ perfectloop ░ @PERFECTL00P]

𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦 🪟↘️

[matthew aka niftytime @niftytime]

@alexctam Such a great name too

[cap'n @xicojam]

the noise fills the room

[matthew aka niftytime @niftytime]

@theportlandfire Love to see it tbh

[Quotient @QuotientHQ]

The IRGC already has power.
The clerics absorb blame.
And the existing constitutional structure still does useful work for the people inside it.

So will Iran’s regime fall before 2027? Q says no.

Chapters:
0:27 Market Setup
1:18 Resolution Criteria
2:53 IRGC Power vs Formal Takeover
4:04 The case for 6%
6:42 Why Preserve the System?
10:17 What Would Change Q’s Mind

[matthew aka niftytime @niftytime]

@pdxmoderate Those salaries are absurd for a company that supplies shacks

[matthew aka niftytime @niftytime]

@KATUNews No one. Let private citizens allocate their capital as they see fit

[🇺🇸ℜ𝑂𝑩NΞSS @ROBNESSOFFICIAL]

ARTISTS THAT WRITE CODE TO MAKE THE ART IS ACTUALLY RETRO NOW.

THINK ABOUT IT.

[matthew aka niftytime @niftytime]

@chooserich You got this and def share posts if you need love or support back from this things of ours

[Rainbow @rainbowdotme]

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[sovrn.art @sovrnart]

amazing to see CENTS & Rutherford Chang's retrospective covered here! ✊

Art in America is one of the most respected names in art journalism

founded in 1913 (just 4 years after the first Lincoln penny was struck).

This joins this growing list of major publications where CENTS has been covered:

Bitcoin Magazine
monopol
FRIEZE
The Art Newspaper

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

PXL Pods by Kim, Artificial by Han, Birds by Jules - all large-scale, genuinely new collections released and sold out in 2026 - share a common denominator: innovation. Groundbreaking work tends to find its collector.

[matthew aka niftytime @niftytime]

@NeithanHador @oregoncitizen_ 24 cents (and rising) on every dollar spent.

[OpenSea @opensea]

Matt Kane is a Chicago-born artist and self-taught programmer who has spent more than two decades moving between traditional oil painting and code.

He was a gallery-exhibited painter in his early twenties before stepping away from the art world for nearly a decade in the Pacific Northwest, where he worked as a web developer and taught himself to program.

The same instinct that once led him to stretch his own canvases and mix his own pigments eventually pushed him to build custom software from scratch — a digital easel of his own making, designed to let him shape exactly how his images come to life.

In September 2020, Matt released "Right Place & Right Time" on Async Art — a 24-layer programmable artwork driven by the previous day's Bitcoin price action, with each hour of price movement controlling the rotation, scale, and position of a corresponding layer. The piece became one of the most cited early experiments in programmable, data-driven cryptoart. He closed 2020 as the winner of the Most Innovative NFT Award, and Cointelegraph listed him among the Top 100 Notable People in Blockchain entering 2021.

His broader practice spans projects including VOLATILITY(dot)ART, Infinite Color Theory, and ANONS — work consistently rooted in code, color, and how data and time can shape an image.

Gazers launched as part of Art Blocks Curated in December 2021. It is a 1,000-piece collection that joins the blockchain to one of humanity's oldest visual traditions — tracking the moon. Each piece is anchored to an "Origin Moon," a New Moon date drawn from the past twenty years of Matt's life, and from that point on, every New Moon that arrives accelerates the artwork's animation.

A Gazer with a freshly minted Origin Moon renders closer to 1 frame per second, behaving like a slowly evolving painting, while one with a 20-year-old Origin Moon runs closer to 20 frames per second. The work is designed to scale forward across decades, growing more animated as time and display technology advance.

The inclusion of Gazers in our Flagship Collection recognizes an artist who built his own tools to create work that no off-the-shelf software could produce — and a project that treats time itself as a medium, using the rhythm of the moon and the permanence of the chain to make artworks that unfold across decades rather than moments.

Welcome home, Gazers 🌊

[Quotient @QuotientHQ]

335 forecasts. 87.2% win rate.

This week Q is looking at the alien confirmation market, Neymar's path to Brazil's roster, and whether Iran can hide Mojtaba Khamenei's condition through December.

Read this week's Signal ↓