Genesis Days

Genesis Days reframes Bitcoin’s earliest passage of time, the gap between block 0 and the next block, into a precise and legible choreography. Across one minutes, the work tracks 7,719.33 minutes (128.66 hours / 5.36 days), condensing that near-week into an animation where time is both metronome and material.

Two isometric cloud structures hold the composition. On the Left: the Genesis block forms from block 0 as networks of senders and receivers (symbolic as cloud spheres linked by lines) draw together to seal the inaugural transaction block; minutes advance on the counter and progress bar. On the Right: the system steps through 772 transaction blocks, the sequence active after the 4th halving, when this artwork was initiated with a counter tuned to transaction block progression. Throughout, vertical colour bars render colour-converted hashes of the previous blocks; once resolved, horizontal bars encode the newly formed block hash.

Hidden in plain sight, 840 diodes backlight the scene: a dual reference to the 840,000 height of the 4th halving and to the ISO 4217 standard where 840 equals the USD, the global reserve currency Bitcoin challenges.