Making Bitcoin Beautiful: Cryptoart Combines Art With Bitcoin Wallets
While mainstream adoption grows everyday, Bitcoin still traces its roots to the tech community. A 2013 survey of Bitcoin users found them to be 96% male, 37% anarcho-capitalist or libertarian, and with a median age of 32.7 years old. The clear majority found Bitcoin to be intellectually rewarding (70%), while a much smaller portion used it to broaden their social circles (22%). As cryptocurrency seeks to expand adoption, people outside the traditional tech community remain a sought-after demographic. Cryptoart is a project that serves this purpose of bringing Bitcoin beyond its traditional....
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Fine art meets bitcoin cold storage in Troy Fearow's "labour of love", CryptoArt, a project that took the fine art dealer 8 months to construct and launch. Troy searches for and commissions high level artists, starting with Alexander Fedosov of the Ukraine, to produce fine art paper wallets in limited editions. These prints are meant for bitcoiners who wish to store their bitcoin safely and show them off in a beautiful way. And these prints are going fast. Troy refers to these 8.15 x 11 printed art pieces as "Crypto Certificates" and are the size of traditional stock certificates - a....
Bitcoin Black Friday in upon us, but The Bitcoin Halving is just around the corner. In anticipation of the event, Cryptoart is excited to release a new art piece entitled "Bitcoin - The Halving" by artist Christina Hess. Additionally, Cryptoart has come up with a unique way of alleviating concerns of missed opportunity when paying with Bitcoin -- a full refund if the price of Bitcoin trades above the all time high before the Bitcoin Halving Event. "The Bitcoin Halvening" as some spell it, is an event that occurs approximately every four years and signifies a reduction in the rate in which....
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