Bitcoin-inspired art object to be auctioned in New York

Christie’s auction house will put up for sale a fragment of the Portrait of a Mind collection. It comprises 40 disc-shaped paintings, each containing the Bitcoin source code — more than 12 million digits in total.

The work is presented by the Robert Alice project of London-based artist Benjamin Gentilli. As noted on the site, he spent three years creating the 50-metre art object. The artist calls his creation the “Portrait of Satoshi Nakamoto.”

Source: Robert Alice.

Each painting contains exactly 322,048 digits: the Bitcoin code and the coordinates of a geographic location. The locations are highlighted in gold and hold special significance in the history of the first cryptocurrency.

In New York, one fragment will go under the hammer — “Block 21 (24.9472° N, 118.5979° E). An non-fungible token (NFT) on the Ethereum blockchain is attached to confirm the work’s authenticity. The artist expects to fetch between $12,000 and $18,000.

Source: Robert Alice.

The feature of the work lies not only in its scale. In design, each painting is intended for a separate buyer, so that no single collector holds the complete code.

The first owners of paintings from the Portrait of a Mind collection were Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and Bloq chairman Matthew Roszak.

Earlier, the Auctionity marketplace, together with Blockchain Cuties, put up for sale a crypto-cat named Darta-Nyan. The event was held in support of the Minsk-based educational project TeenGuru.

As reported earlier, in late October 2020 Moscow hosted the international exhibition-fair of contemporary digital art Disartive.

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