@benkaufman ...because bitcoin sucks all hope from you, causing you to no longer appreciate the beauty and meaning of art.
(people were buying all that expensive art for the beauty and meaning, right?)
@benkaufman At my art school they had to institute a rule in performance art classes that performances weren't allowed to include vomiting until second year.
Yes, that was actually a problem that needed a solution.
@BTCHODL @benkaufman Yup! And best yet, my year was the first one that they became a Proper University, so I'm all Legit and Educated.
Please give me government grants.
@pete @benkaufman
Ethereum people would probably say "non-fungible tokens solve this"
but one could say that mathematics is the ultimate abstract art, already, and as we've seen with RSA it's not possible to meaningfully export-restrict it 😀
@orionwl @benkaufman Mathematics makes for terrible art.
How am I gonna hang it on a wall and sell it?
(seriously, every single bit of art I made was designed to be wall mountable so I could sell it)
@pete @benkaufman
i wasn't aware that beauty and meaning needed to be wall-mountable 😊
@orionwl @benkaufman I wasn't either. But my landlord had a different opinion when it came time to pay rent...
@pete @orionwl @benkaufman Bech32 is art.
@kekcoin @orionwl @benkaufman Bech32 is to art as the four color problem is to math proofs: brute force search. 😂
@pete @orionwl @benkaufman Let it be formally known that producing art is hard work.
@pete @kekcoin @benkaufman
but that's where the bitcoin comes in
miners are brute force art tools, producing abstract art that you can sell
@orionwl @pete @benkaufman Every block is unique 💖
@orionwl @kekcoin @benkaufman I used to joke that if I ever became fabulously wealthy my art practice would be to build giant 1km³ cubes in the desert, randomly oriented, and strenuously deny they had any meaning.
...Bitcoin mining is the next best thing. Well, other than true level.
@pete of course they do. Ever seen anything more splendid than such a piece of fine are as this?