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This thread is EVERYTHING you need to create your first piece of generative art in 5 MINUTES!
Generative art captures the beauty of the interplay between order and randomness that makes up our world.
This is a short guide for taking the first steps in p5.js
🧵
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Top 3 leaderboard is being maintained in our Discord. If you get a score higher than the current
#3
please open a ticket in the Discord with the screenshot to be added to the board!
To celebrate p5.js coming to Ordinals, I'll be giving some
@the_blocks_btc
WL out to high scores on Space Blocks (DM screenshot proof, hash included). Definitely going to keep having fun with these recursion features, big thanks to
@huuep
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Is that us
@MEonBTC
?
Are we minting soon?
OMG I'm so nervous, send me a picture of a monkey (or a monke) anon
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Name the collection
Wrong answers only.
Best answer gets WL.
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Mint starts in 1 hour!
A few housekeeping notes:
The Blocks are first and foremost, Art.
This is the reason we have taken time to curate a community of people with an appreciation or simple curiosity about Generative art on Bitcoin.
Collabs were done but we asked for nothing…
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GM 🎄
BitBlocks by
@billyrestey
has to be one of the best curation and collection experiences in Ordinals.
BitBlock on the Block😎
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Uh, what just happened?
Thank you to
@MEonBTC
for the flawless experience and to everyone collecting immutable art on Bitcoin!
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GM ☀️ here's a look at what's on the inscribing menu today
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WL Giveaway! Not getting a high score on Space Blocks? Now's your chance to try your luck at a WL giveaway -> 10 WL and 1 free mint up to be raffled. Like, follow, and RT to enter
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We just finished inscribing the last Mondrian piece. Now keep an eye out for the City Nights 👀 One of our personal favorite styles in the collection 🌆
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GM☀️
Who's gonna be picking up some blocks today!?
Public Mint in 4 hours!
(Say gm back)
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A city needs its Mayor.
I wonder who's ready for one... more... bounty.
The most challenging one yet.
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Good Morning Ordinals fam🟠
The Blocks in
@ord_io
's new Zen mode is the ultimate viewing experience.
Which piece has your attention?
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GM to everyone who brought up ordinals during Thanksgiving.
Here's some free Thanksgiving alpha:
B&W blocks might turn out to be the grails of the blocks collection.
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The chads from
@inkonbtc
have put out one last bounty for the public mint fam!
Winner gets elected as Mayor of Central Nestleton
Who's in?
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In a time of multi million dollar raises- we sold out The Blocks in under 3 minutes with little hype. Collectors keep collecting. Real art lives on
#Bitcoin
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317 of 333 inscribed.
Customs, BYOS, and a surprise historic blockprint 🔜
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Apparently,
@MEonBTC
thinks we're hot🔥☺️
Too soon for autographs?
Too soon for Best Intern in the World award?
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We would like to (re?)introduce the Ordinals community to The Blocks as one of the first mempool-inspired generative art collections.
So, we're hosting the very first Blocks community space tomorrow!
Here's why:
The top ordinals opened this universe to new methods of…
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ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#6
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Generative Art has produced some of the most amazing art on Bitcoin.
@billyrestey
's BitBlocks
@mulan_art
's Unigraphs
@lifofifo
's Nakamoto Archives
Even beyond Bitcoin some of the most amazing and stunning pieces…
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The Blocks is a mempool-inspired generative art collection on Bitcoin.
This is the kind of art that gets into museums, and galleries around the globe.
We're looking to curate a small, close-knit community of people who appreciate generative art on the most resilient blockchain…
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Everything about Bitcoin is beautiful.
Congratulations to the
@OnChainMonkey
fam on successfully inscribing their entire collection.
How did we create 30,000 inscriptions on Block 9 for OCM Genesis? It took over 10,000 Bitcoin transactions. Here's one of them. Part of the art of Bitcoin.🟧
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You missed pups
You missed Blocks
You missed BitBlocks
Are you gonna miss inkonBtc, anon?
GM☀️🧡
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With our WL mint, we've intentionally limited it to 1 block per wallet.
As we said, The Blocks are first and foremost, Art.
We want a chance to curate a diverse community and allow anyone to get their hands on a Block.
Even if they're late to the party (bozo).
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A little over a year ago, inscription 0 appeared on
#Bitcoin
. Since then the mempool’s been full of art, memes, and other forms of unfiltered culture
@theezy350
created The Blocks to celebrate this new movement. Let's all keep making history and having a damn good time
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🚨
@traverse_io
x
@the_blocks_btc
🚨
We are partnering with Traverse to bring our community $TRVS tokens airdrop, raffles for The Blocks and Ars Machina Ordinals, and Traverse’s solution to enhance your assets’ security. Traverse will raffle 2 The Blocks and 2 Ars Machina…
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Within the next 24 hours, we'll be releasing a series of rapid-fire Orducation Bounties.
A few last chances to snag a WL spot.
Who's ready?
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GM art collectors and degens
What are your thoughts on this piece from our collection?
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We didn't get a bullish call but we had a bullish DM🔥
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ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#10
: THE LAST BOUNTY
The ink fam
@zetman_eth
and
@BrunnoEth
have been an amazing support for The Blocks.
So, it's time to support them right back🧡
The team…
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Inscription Zero Block: The Creation of Ordinals. Like + RT for chance to win. This ones a banger 🔥
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Good Morning to absolutely everyone🟠
There are 333 blocks and only 2 ways to get WLs:
- Steal a WL
- Orducate
Check the collection out here:
-
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Good Morning to absolutely everyone
This is a reminder to stay gold🧡
ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#2
later today
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🚨 This is a hint.
Name the collection
Wrong answers only.
Best answer gets WL.
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Did someone say next block?
Did
@billyrestey
just predict the blocks mint date?
a W in my books
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GM Ordinals! It’s a beautiful Sunday here ☀️
Feels like art season
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A big thank you to our 300 new followers! We’re incredibly excited to finally be bringing our collection to
#Bitcoin
, and we’re also thrilled that many of you are connecting with it ❤️. We’ve had a blast this week, and next week is going to be even bigger!
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Have a great weekend Ordinals! Check out this incredible canvas print one of our holders received. On-chain provenance + physical display 🔥
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Ordinals will likely outlive the vast majority of modern cultural artifacts. As long as one person is running Bitcoin on an entry level home computer, these inscriptions will survive in their original form. Do you see it yet?
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GM Ordinals ☀️ City Nights are inscribed ✔️Today, the pyramids are coming 🛸
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Ordinals on top once again.
This legend has made airdrops more accessible to all projects in the Ordinals community.
Bullish on
@lifofifo
and Nakamoto Archives.
This is the excitement we live for🟠
Nakamoto Archives airdrop + WL snapshot for OrdRain holders has now concluded.
The entire airdrop for 222 (x3) collectibles was done in a single tx.
Instead of constructing the airdrop tx as a one-off, I wanted to use this opportunity to contribute an…
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GM Ordiculturists🟠
Intern is back after a short break, few weeks left to mint.
Who's going to reserve this grail?
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Reason
#32021
why
@lifofifo
is such a legend.
The choice to pass on expertise that has taken a lot of work to gain instead of gatekeeping for personal gain is what makes a community grow.
Love him fr🧡
@djgiftedprophet
@derposaurous
@the_blocks_btc
@billyrestey
@mulan_art
Looks great! You could try to inscribe the actual p5.js script too!
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GM Ordinals
Word on the streets is:
The Blocks are coming.
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And the threats to The Blocks they don’t sleep. They’re watching our every move. The Frogs, RSIC, Ninjas, NodeMonkes, Bitmap, OMB
They may be reading this right now. Our X account should not be mistaken for a cable news gabfest show. We don’t care what you look like
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First GM of the year!
Happy New Year ordinals fam!
The orange wave will be bigger this year. Metaprotocols, new spam on Bitcoin and so much more.
Cheers to an amazing 2024.
The Blocks are coming🟠
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GM Ordinal enjooyers🟠
Would you frame this piece from our collection?
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This is awesome! Part of my vision is for The Blocks to become an ordinals hub for discussing and creating generative art. Well done 👏
Ive been learning about generative art recently and try to create one based on
@the_blocks_btc
, bellow there are some that I generated. Used the python mode on the Processing app, I can share the code if someones interested.
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Thank you to
@AspreyStudio
for the IRL display, it's a massive honor to see this piece in your gallery 🧡
This photo of “Luminescent Murk” from
@the_blocks_btc
by
@theezy350
displayed at the
@AspreyStudio
gallery in Mayfair, London is the perfect motivation to start the week.
Congratulations Theezy! 🎉
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There might be a surprise or two left for those minting public, but who knows?
I heard from the salty discord mod that some guys in Public Mint might be able to reserve their favorite blocks.
Someone minted mine (this one) so I don't care🙄
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Introducing "The Blocks" an ordinals collection that merges Bitcoin's design and history with generative art: Make sure to follow for project updates!
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GM Ordinal enjoyoors!🟠
It's been 150 days since the blocks have been inscribed.
ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#1
out in a few hours
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We just inscribed the final piece! Thank you to our community for the amazing support, thank you to the early holders with custom orders. And a big thank you to
@ratoshi44
for the inscribing! We can’t wait to share the rest at launch!!
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Phase one begins🏛️
Good morning collectors, degens and ordinal enjoyoors🟠
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Some weeks ago, we did a Bounty with
@nonfungible_jan
and
@Dr_DAO_
's Technically Bitcoin series.
Today we discovered from
@0xBGS
that the Wizards have been behind Blockchain Economic policy.
Is this a hint for the next bounty?
Are we going to make it?
Is
@udiWertheimer
a…
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GM Ordinals fam🟠
Who else thinks today is a Mondrian block type of day?
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ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#1
Fomojis 2.0 are coming!
@SanjFomojis
put out this post to announce version two of the Ordinal Fomojis collection which will use recursions.
Here's the question, What are recursions?
BOUNTY RULES:
- Find the best thread you've seen explaining recursions.…
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GM ☀️ Did you know there's a free 3D ordinals gallery that works with any wallet? Thanks
@StacksParrots
and thanks for sharing
@cypherglyphsBTC
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GM Ordinals!
The Heist is now open to everyone.
The rules are simple:
- Whoever gets the highest score on space blocks each day gets on the Blocklist
Discord open
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Many of you have noticed our inscriptions popping up on today. Here’s the main wallet to check the progress. Can we get some likes for visibility?!
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The Blocks mint is one month away so this might be a good time to ask
Who wants to get blocked?
We got his community wet, who wants to get wet next?🐳💦
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Art belongs on
#ordinals
. Due to popular demand, we're announcing a fan art contest! The theme is Bitcoin blocks/mempool. Top submissions will be voted on in Discord, and top 3 will win WL. Post your art and tag
@the_blocks_btc
. We can't wait to see the submissions, good luck!
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Lots of new eyes on the Ordinals ecosystem today! The Blocks launched in January as a generative art collection based on the mempool block visualizer
Here's an overview about the collection, if you want more articles or to talk to
@theezy350
stop by the Discord 🧡
Overview thread on
@the_blocks_btc
: a collection of 333 generative mempool-inspired artworks inscribed on Bitcoin. After getting completely absorbed in Ordinals in early 2023, I wanted to create an original collection that celebrates Bitcoin and this new ecosystem. 🧵
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We hired a new intern.
Man, I hope this kid knows what he's doing.
Anyways GM Ordinal enjoyooors🟧
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ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#2
UTXOs are the pillar of Bitcoin’s transaction model.
In the first video on their channel “Technically Bitcoin”, these two legends break down the UTXO model.
But, what’s Orducation without pop quizzes?
Here’s today’s bounty:
- Find the OMB used in their…
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Good Morning to absolutely everyone🧡
New Week
New Orducation
Heist begins.
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The Blocks x BitBlocks looking 🔥🫡
Minted a BitBlock by
@billyrestey
using
@the_blocks_btc
's 'Taproot activation' block as the base - very happy with how this turned out!
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What a time to be alive!
Art on Bitcoin is making it into one of the most prominent art institutions in the world while Luke and his circus fantasize about censoring ordinals.
Bullish or Bullish?
The Blocks next?👀
I am so excited to present
@BitcoinShrooms
, the first ordinal sale at
@Sothebysverse
, and we couldn't start with a better project. This is the first time works from the very anticipated collection will be available to the public.
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GM collectors, inscriboors, rune hunters, degens, artists
Rule
#1
: Always take advantage of low txn fee periods
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Man I'm so bullish on The Blocks, nothing else really enters my thought process atm.
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Node Monkes this, Node Monkes that
All eyes have been on the tremendous amount of attention garnered by this epic yet controversial mint.
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ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#9
--- SEND NODES ---
- Favorite Nodes
- Nodefluencer PFPs
- Rare Nodes…
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GM Ordinals fam!
Woke up to 2000 followers!
But even better are the tons of posts giving feedback on what we put our hearts and souls into creating.
Thank you for all the support and for supporting our vision of a true Art collection experience on Bitcoin.
Have an amazing…
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ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#8
The Orange cabal, Bitcoin spammers, revolutionaries, chads.
These weirdos in wizard costumes, known by many names, are ironically leading the charge to change Bitcoin forever.
Who doesn't love them?
Rumor has it that they take showers in their costumes,…
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GM
Sun is out☀️
Intern is up and thankful
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ORDUCATION BOUNTY
#8
COMPLETE!
Our winners are:
-
@milestones_nft
-
@0xPablo666
-
@Cuentos_ETH
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WL Mint in 4 hours!
TWO BOUNTIES LEFT.
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Imagine fading builders with this level of skill and respect for Bitcoin culture.
The Nakamoto Archives airdrop for Ord Rain holders has just arrived.
This is a unique experience. You recieve the json, html & art in 3 seperate inscriptions which are soulbound. Sell one, you sell all 3.
@lifofifo
is a genius and you should follow him if you’re serious about…
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Block 800,709. Cheers to 20 Million Inscriptions. We've come a long way these past months, and it's still the beginning 🥂
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Happy Ordinals Eve!
I wonder who's going to get a 1/1 print edition of this in a red envelope from UnSanta Claus(
@theezy350
)
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We’re going to try something different for our mint (OPTIONAL). If you have rare sats that you want to inscribe one of The Blocks’ 333 pieces on, open a ticket 🎟️ in our Discord this week!
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Bullish on sick Dragon PFP art in the year of the Dragon🐉🔥
@zetman_eth
's inkonBtc art is top-tier, keep your eyes out for this one.
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