CrypArt, First Art in History with a ’Real’ Value?

CrypArt Limited is pleased to announce its global launch. CrypArt is a new form of art, centered around QR codes (including as bitcoin wallets).

CrypArt has arrived! Invented by an anonymous artist under the pseudonym 'Satushi', CrypArt places QR codes as the focus of limited edition canvas prints and allows customers to create their own 'hidden' message, or bitcoin wallet in a picture.

Early in 2014, an email was received by a group of bitcoin enthusiasts on the Isle of Man, familiar with QR code technology via the dark net. The author of that email was identified only by the pseudonym 'Satushi'.

In the email, Satushi laid out the concept of open source, collective art and he/she/it followed up with detailed plans on how to create and evolve a stable of CrypArtists to look at art and revolutionise the whole thing, for the benefit of artists, customers and viewers alike.

The CrypArt ‘protocol’ was designed based on the idea of the Egyptian pyramids - beautiful on the outside, with treasures that remained hidden for thousands of years, buried deep inside.

The picture shown is a limited edition design by Satushi and features a QR code that is also a bitcoin wallet. Effectively the picture links the owner to a bitcoin wallet so can 'store' bitcoins and the QR code embedded in the picture can be sent bitcoins and can be scanned to read the value within the bitcoin wallet.

CrypArt claim this is the first picture in history 'with a real value'.

A variety of pictures is available on the CrypArt website, alongside the full range of prints and more details http://www.crypart.com/ Twitter: @CrypArt and on LinkedIn.

Many of the limited edition prints are available with a blank space and come with full instructions and sticker to allow customers to generate and apply their own QR codes (including instructions on how to generate bitcoin wallet offline).

About the Artists Satushi

Satushi (Twitter @SatushiArt) is the inventor and mastermind behind CrypArt, though his/her/ its identity remains a mystery. Some say Satushi is a genius that invented a protocol for open source, finite art, which encourages the owner to take responsibility for generating and protecting their own wallets.

Others say Satushi is really a collective of bitcoin and art enthusiasts and it has even been suggested that ‘he’ is really an anarchist governmental institution intent on world destruction. Whatever the case, his open source wallet-based art has revolutionised the concept of art as an asset. His original ‘vault’ picture was the first piece of art in the world with a real value.

Others say Satushi is an anonymous street artist known for his/her libertarian themed pictures. Trained by Satushi the founder of CrypArt, he/she/ it believes that the current global system is flawed and needs to change. Little more is known about what is believed to be the first crypto-anarchist artists in the world.

Others say Satushi is a well-known and much beloved street artist, who has sold his array of imaginative creature art all over the world. Blair McCafferty is himself a revolutionary in new technologies within art. From ‘light art’ to ‘CrypArt’, Blair never shys away from a challenge and embraces all aspects of modern technology which he incorporates in his work.

CrypArt Limited is represented and held on behalf of the CrypArt Foundation by local residents on the Isle of Man, Adrian Forbes and Owen Cutajar.

Adrian commented

"We feel truly honored to be involved in such a radical new concept to the art world and to help promote and spread the CrypArt ethos.We share Satushi's dream of spreading QR technology and bitcoin as a global currency and believe CrypArt provides bespoke art for customers wanting art with a real meaning (in the form of a message), or with a real value (in the form of a bitcoin wallet)."

Owen runs an IT consultancy company, FutureTech and has had to overcome some unique problems in helping setup CrypArt.

“It was hard to coordinate a popular and two anonymous artists to provide information, pictures and stick to any plans,” he says.

“Crypsi threatened to sink the Isle of Man if we renamed any of his pictures or changed his bio, but we have developed a decent working relationship and now do what we are told!”

Crypsi website: http://www.crypsi.com/

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