The Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture, A Cypherpunk Chronometer.
#5
of 10 was hand delivered yesterday & I wanted to compile a GIGA-THREAD compiling photos, videos, explainers, and podcasts all into one place 👇
Let's go back into time and down the rabbit hole and see
#1
-4
The US Government stole $3.6 Billion in
#Bitcoin
from Bitcointalk user Loaded, who stole it from Silk Road in 2012.
My man held 50k BTC through EVERY bear market, in Aug 2017 maxi dumps ALL his forked bcash for bitcoin, & HODLs that too! Let's dig into exactly what happened...
RIP Dad.
The man who gave me my love of computers & woodworking, has passed on.
I’ve carved a digital memorial to him, inscribed forever on the
#bitcoin
timechain.
Every node on the network from now until eternity will read & verify my memorial in an eternal 21-gun salute.
The
#Bitcoin
Full Node Sculpture
#8
of 10, made entirely of Mirrors, set to block height 686,604.
This block contains an encoded message celebrating
#ElSalvador
making Bitcoin Legal Tender & was chosen by the sculpture's owner
@protagonist4now
.
Bitcoin is a mirror.
#BitcoinArt
The private key to a full Bitcoin is engraved into this sculpture.
Everyone can see it, it is not hidden;
But no one on the planet alive today will be able to spend this bitcoin.
It's time-locked until Block 7,140,000, approximately the year 2144.
Curious to learn more? 👇
Honored and excited to show the Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture (block height 600,000) @
#BTCmiami
Designed to be a fully functional Bitcoin node and block explorer. Come see it at
#TNABC
#Bitcoin
#BitcoinArt
#BTC
"The Mirror, like
#Bitcoin
is one of man's most powerful technologies. It allows us to see the world as it truly is, not as we'd like it to be."
Preview of The Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture 7 of 10, made entirely out of mirror.
I'm bringing this to
@TheBitcoinConf
@scarcedotcity
.
The
#Bitcoin
Infinity Keys have found their way into the collections of bitcoiners across the globe.
I've hidden the identity of this super-top-secret-bitcoiner so nobody knows who he is. You'll have to read the article to see the unredacted pic!
Tomorrow in
@BitcoinMagazine
!
The
#Bitcoin
Full Node Sculpture 9 of 10.
Just delivered to a mysterious anonymous cypherpunk collector in an undisclosed location.
Black-holographic rings refract through a Prismatic Rainbow constellation of Bitcoin's Peer-2-Peer network.
Saw Elon post some art earlier...for an artist, that's next level.
I think every artist hopes "I wish this super smart billionaire would share a picture of my art"
Not gonna lie I do feel like the luckiest artist on earth.
Thank you
#bitcoin
Bitcoin Full Node Art Sculpture - Sneak peek at a work in progress.
Designed to be a fully functional block explorer/full node. It also works like a clock so you can link date/time to the current block reward, current block height, BTC per day/year etc.
#Bitcoin
#BTC
#BitcoinArt
HOLY SHIT! I just found out this goes so much deeper!
Don't Trust, verify. Right?
So I loaded
@MichaelDunwort1
's key into Bitcoin Core and discovered a whole new realm of madness.
Follow along.
This is an amazing piece of Bitcoin History, almost lost in obscurity.
The private key to a full Bitcoin is engraved into this sculpture.
Everyone can see it, it is not hidden;
But no one on the planet alive today will be able to spend this bitcoin.
It's time-locked until Block 7,140,000, approximately the year 2144.
Curious to learn more? 👇
The asset forfeiture laws create incentives for law enforcement agencies to spend time & resources on a decade-old crime, just to fill their coffers. The twisted laws can be mercilessly deployed to deprive citizens of their property and fund the agencies stealing it. Ironic.
BREAKING! WE'VE JUST RECEIVED THE GENESIS BLOCK OF THE 1ST INTER-GALACTIC TIMECHAIN!
Dhruv Bansal's "Bitcoin Astronomy" translated into a 132-page
#Bitcoin
Sci-Fi Graphic Novel
ALL art made by AI.
Editing by
@TomerStrolight
.
Here’s Book 1 of 9 of the Timechain Codex. Enjoy!
Here's to all the "Financial Advisors" over the past decade that told me I'm crazy for saving in
#Bitcoin
.
"You're an artist, I do finance for a living, trust me."
/u/nullc: Thanks for responding, I think it's important to discuss this. You can sue a handle and the handle may have diminished or no ability (as in the UK) to defend itself witho
So they are saying that because this 50k bitcoin was from Silk Road's wallets that it is directly confiscatable. So they are not confiscating this from Loaded, but from Dread Pirate Roberts!
And hold the fuck up...did they just say ALL 9.9 MILLION BITCOIN are confiscatable?!?!😅
"
#Bitcoin
is coming to life... the volatility is the price you pay for it to be 10x outperforming the S&P index over a decade,"
@michael_saylor
says.
#crypto
After holding him in a cage for 6 MONTHS we see the exact moment where he breaks down- on-chain. March 25, 2022. They didn't crack it, they couldn't hack it, & this is the government, they HAD the devices!
NO! Until he GAVE them the keys, they had no coin. Amazing!
I don't know about you, but I work so hard for every tiny fraction of a bitcoin I can secure...years of grinding side hustle after full day at day job, $50/month buys from my paycheck, each sat a hard won battle.
It actually shocks me to see people consider exchanging 0.1 BTC…
I'm donating the
#1
of 3 Artist Proof version of the Bitcoin Infinity Public Key to help my brother
@hodlonaut
in his cause!
#2
of 3 went to
@saylor
#3
of 3 to
@knutsvanholm
#1
of 3 can be yours.
I knew I kept this for something important.
💥 CALL TO ARTISTS 💥
We're running a collection of auctions to support
@hodlonaut
✊
100% proceeds go to his defense against you know who 👉💩👈
DM if you have art to auction🤙 We're launching next week so we'll need details STAT 💨
That fateful day, March 25, 2022, around 1PM EST, we see 5 transfers to a US government-controlled bitcoin address.
bc1qmxjefnuy06v345v6vhwpwt05dztztmx4g3y7wp
And can we all just collectively laugh at them for reusing addresses?
So he hodls the 50k BTC through every bear market since 2012, then in the heat of the fork wars of 2017, goes full cypherpunk. He hardcore maxi dumps ALL 50k BCH for 3,500BTC and moves the BTC to wallets he controls. Hodls. Chad move.
First off, how'd he get the 50k BTC? The government says he was a very sophisticated hacker who exploited a vulnerability in Silk Road's site.
Then they describe his technique:
Make fake acct. Deposit BTC to exchange. Request withdrawal. Request withdrawal again. 🤣😂😅
Dude you don't realize the 50btc mined in the Genesis Block are unspendable forever?!?!
Satoshi premined? Not even close, he did the highest integrity thing by removing his own unfair advantage
This is the Anti-Shitcoin.
It appears that Satoshi pre-mined Bitcoin in some sense?
He/she launched Bitcoin on 1/3/09 and mined the first bitcoin.
On 1/8/09, he/she emailed the cypherpunk list announcing the bitcoin release.
5 days from launch to email announcing the release:
This may not look like much, but its half a year of my life.
So many failures along the way, but now...all pieces are done.
Now time to assemble The Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture
#10
.
#Bitcoin
#ProofOfWork
BREAKING! WE'VE JUST RECEIVED THE GENESIS BLOCK OF THE 1ST INTER-GALACTIC TIMECHAIN!
When we meet our alien neighbors, we'll gift them a beautiful physical copy of our Timechain.
👀👉 👈👀
Faketoshi on the stand: "...So now you see why my wife and I have rights all the time, lots and lots of fights!!"
Iras Based AF attorney: "Is this because you don't tell your wife the truth either?"
The whole courtroom silently goes OH SHIT! 🤣🤣🤣
Objection judge!!
Sustained
Details from the Faketoshi Trial Day 7.
I have a TON of notes so this'll take a lot of tweets.
Highlights;
✅ CSW compares himself to Elon
✅ CSW claims Bitcoin WP released March 2008
✅ CSW Buys 1.1M BTC on shady Russian Exchange
✅ CSW Mines Fake Disappearing Testnet coins
1/n
Follow me down the
#Bitcoin
rabbit hole in this tweet thread and we'll break down all 21 layers in the Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture 4.0 A Cypherpunk Chronometer.
Full Explainer Article
@BitcoinMagazine
-
Video walkthrough -
Imagine you're so dumb you sell 50,000 Bitcoin for a currency YOU CAN LITERALLY PRINT YOURSELF!
And then you sue the company who helped you sell the BTC.
In 2 days, on Twosday 2/22/22 at 2:22 PM EST the secrets of the
#Bitcoin
Infinity Public/Private Keys will be revealed.
Experience the 7-month journey in the article I wrote for
@BitcoinMagazine
.
Bitcoin Everything There is Divided by 21 Million
∞/21M
🎨Calling All Bitcoin-Artists!🎨
I'm honored to be curating the
#Bitcoin
Art Gallery
@BitcoinAtlantis
on the beautiful paradise island of Madiera.
🔗 and info below
*Note: The gallery will host ONLY physical art pieces, no NFTs, shitcoins, Ordinals or Inscriptions.
It's easier to fly 9 lawyers, an entire media crew, AND a documentary team all the way across the planet to engage in litigation on multiple continents than it is to sign a message proving you control the keys to a bitcoin address.
Judge asks Wright to help her understand why signing cryptographically is harder for him than what he's doing now.
Wright says it's harder to do because finding up to 100 people and getting them to witness is very time-consuming.
Come along on a magical adventure through paradise to a hidden art gallery inside an oceanfront Bitcoin-fortress-citadel.
Grab a whisky or a pipe, kick your feet up, and follow along below. We'll tour the gallery, and dive into al the amazing cypherpunk artists decorating the…
Was dating this awesome girl when I got caught in a house fire, destroyed everything physical in my life, and I had 3rd degree burns over 30% of my body. I was literally homeless when discharged from hospital a month later...she took me in, nurtured me back to health. Married her
I turned down an offer on node sculpture
#8
for more money than I'd ever seen in my life, because they wanted to pay in USD instead of
#Bitcoin
. Took less than 10 seconds to make the decision as it didn't align with my ethics.
I was in NO position to do this but did it anyway
Turned down a quick and easy $5k today because the offer didn't align with my ethics.
It took less than 10 seconds to make the decision...
Put yourself in a position where you're not even tempted to compromise your integrity.
Based Adam Back is on 🔥 schooling "NFT Dan" Held in the middle of him shilling "NFT JPEG cats as Bitcoin's Core Ethos" 😅🤣😂
Absolutely brutal.
And the ratios on each and every Tweet 🤣😂🤣😅😅🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
@danheld
@druidian
@Derpitor
@bitcoingardener
@QuantumCatsXYZ
A Blockchain is micro optimized for transactions 300 UTXOs worth of JPEG isn't a transaction, it's squarely spam. Saying demand rises anyway is itself a nonsense argument. at least BRC are transactions, a kind of inefficient color coin thing there are better ways now.
The Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture 7.0, A Cypherpunk Chronometer, made entirely of mirror.
Designed to be a working bitcoin full node & block explorer, the sculpture tracks
#Bitcoin
time & network data over 132 years from 2009 to 2140 when the last bitcoin is mined.
#BitcoinArt
I.Cannot. Breathe.😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅🤣😅🤣😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂
Calvin going into full disaster recovery mode as a reply guy in my tweet thread couldn't have ended any other way...
🤣😂😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lessons on the path to Bitcoin Maximalism:
I lost some bitcoin in 2018 on a shady exchange that exit scammed.
I was buying masternode shitcoins like a madman.
Whether lost through exit scam or held, I would STILL HAVE LOST EVERYTHING cuz ALL my shitcoins went to zero!
For everyone that asked; "How can I get one?"
Here's your chance.
I made 5 of these. 2 going to
@knutsvanholm
...
I'll give 2 away to any bitcoiner(s) that reply with something "
#bitcoin
" that I don't already know.
Rules in tweet to follow.
#BitcoinArt
#BitcoinInfinityDay
At current mining levels;
The amount of all gold mined in the entire history of humanity, up to today will double in under 60 years.
For silver, only 10 years.
For
#Bitcoin
the amount mined as of today, will never, ever, all the way into the future of humanity, be doubled.
1st test with colored mirrors.
Trying to see if this might work in the
#Bitcoin
Full Node Sculpture
#8
.
Got a tad carried away with the test cut design, but hey, you gotta have fun in life...
When I lost my home and everything I owned to fire in 2010, the fire also burned 30% of the skin off my body and put me in the hospital for a month 😅...I remember seeing my skin literally melted off my hands.
Today, I finished a new sculpture and ate a steak on my back porch.…
When I lost my 4 properties to foreclosure in 2010 I had I to move into a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 other guys to survive.
Today I took my sons to the trampoline park and ate a steak on my back porch.
This is literally nothing. No pain.
Okay so now the feds are onto Loaded. They have the evidence, they get a warrant & almost exactly a year ago today, they raided his home in Gainesville, GA and found all his hardware containing the BTC. (LMAO at "submerged" like Wut?!)
Of the 53,500BTC he "stole" he hodl'd 51.5k!
They also took everything he had, related to Silk Road and his "crime" or not. Including cash, Casascius coins worth 174 BTC, and some precious metals.
So what was his actual crime? Apparently he;
"transferred at least approximately 50,000 Bitcoin from Silk Road’s Bitcoin addresses into Individual-1’s own addresses, without ever providing any goods or services in return" 👀😮
We've decided to transfer a big chunk of our
#Bitcoin
to a cold wallet, and store that cold wallet in a physical vault within our national territory.
You can call it our first
#Bitcoin
piggy bank 🇸🇻
It's not much, but it's honest work 😂
Quick peek into the lab:
It's the 1st prototype I've ever got to move. Supposed to be the top of a locking book cover.
Planetary gears linked to polarized rack gears rotates B 13.88%👀
(There's zero design work done yet, this is purely "function over form shape finding")
CSW: "all the Bitcoin Dave and I mined was on Testnet using a supercomputer that's top 20 in the world."
"So you're saying all the Bitcoin you mined is worthless?"
CSW " it's not worthless, it gives information. Information has value."
Faketoshi trial day 7 notes...
Faketoshi fake cries on the stand for the jury "I was a horrible fucking husband and put my invention ahead of my marriage"
Fakest cry you ever heard...
"I was kicked off Twitter personally by
@jack
"
"I have more money than Rawanda."
🤣🤣🤣
But that's not all there's a lot more stuff that's kinda weird. Like they are not trying to seize the bitcoin from Loaded, since he stole them. They are trying to take them from Ross Ulbricht, since they rightfully belonged to Silk Road. They've worked a LONG time on this...
I got to visit The Coral Castle the other day, it's a modern-day megalithic structure built in secret at night by one man who claimed he knew the secrets of how the Egyptians built the pyramids. Let's jump into the Mysteries of Coral Castle the Number 21 and
#Bitcoin
.