0003 Block [ 0 ]

Catalog

January 3, 2009_

Timestamp of Sovereignty
No fanfare. No pitch. Just lines of code, forged into reality. January 3, 2009 marks Bitcoin's birth, the day Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis Block and began a new era. Woven into it: a headline from The Times, "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

This was defiance incarnate. A rebuke to fragile institutions, broken trust, and endless bailouts. Bitcoin emerged as protest, a sovereign currency etched in software.

This piece commemorates that genesis. The Genesis Block, timestamped at 18:15:05 UTC, holds a single coinbase transaction minting 50 BTC as its reward. Those coins remain unspendable, locked forever in the chain's origin. With difficulty set to 1 and nonce 2083236893, it stands as Block 0, the immutable cornerstone untouched by time or temptation. This elegant foundation birthed crypto's sovereignty, a deliberate act of cryptographic permanence that still anchors every transaction today.

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Edition of One
A singular work — crafted at this scale only once. Mounted on a wood panel and finished in your choice of oxide black acrylic or clear, near-invisible varnish. Accompanied by a hand-signed certificate of authenticity, affirming its rarity and distinction.

Materials
Acrylic, automotive paint, polymer, reactants, flow conditioners and varnish on hardboard, mounted on a wood panel. Executed with airbrush and silkscreen techniques, applied with precision and intention.

Year
2025

Dimensions
11.75 x 11.75 x 2 in. (30 x 30 x 5 cm)


A material artifact of the digital age - anchored in crypto’s evolving ethos, and rendered with enduring material presence.