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 Two, Each Unique
Only two mirrors exist at this scale — one mounted on a varnished wood panel, the other on black acrylic. Each is accompanied by a hand-signed certificate of authenticity, certifying its rarity and provenance.

Materials
Acrylic and polymer on mirror, mounted on wood panel. Silkscreened using our overprinting technique: multiple layers of paint meticulously applied to create a subtle, tactile depth within the text.

Year
2025

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

A reflective artifact of crypto culture—where permanence meets perception, and meaning shifts with the viewer.