Animated photo collage based on photos taken on passenger flights
2020
Edition of 5
Secondary Market

Artwork Description

The artwork Immutable Node Symphony explores the verification and synchronization process of Bitcoin nodes. Nodes are computers connected to Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer network, while so-called full nodes host and synchronize a copy of the entire Bitcoin blockchain. Every 10 minutes, a new transaction block is created. Once a consensus is reached about the validity of a new transaction block, all the nodes will add the block to the public ledger, called the blockchain.

A growing global network, currently over 100,000 nodes, has maintained the entire transaction history since its inception in 2008, ensuring the blockchain’s information is immutable. Each additional node increases this distributed network’s security and reliability against local outages or potential prohibitive legislation in individual countries.

My animation uses cloud collages to visualize the idea of Bitcoin as a network of hope. It’s hope for opportunity, equality or wealth that motivates people to run Bitcoin nodes. However, if people lose their hope in Bitcoin and disconnect their nodes, the Bitcoin network consequently dissolves like a cloud of vapour.

Digital Artwork Information

1 of 5
3,840 × 2,160 px
MP4
2:56
Elementum
December 15th, 2020
ERC-721
yes
Edition 1 of 5
Mint date:
Mar 9th, 2021
Transaction block:
12006472
Primary Sale:
Mar 9th, 2021
First collector:
0x2ca5313ebeaf2947ffa7f25cb48e1e032f7d26c8
Edition 2 of 5
Mint date:
Aug 11th, 2021
Transaction block:
13004034
Primary Sale:
Aug 11th, 2021
First collector:
0x82c0e3c30b3cd0373d5d9869b253ceea64736951
Edition 3 of 5
Mint date:
Oct 6th, 2021
Transaction block:
13364747
Primary Sale:
Oct 6th, 2021
First collector:
0x1b8ebe0b0e045f45561d4a01d86beaf41c95626a
Edition 4 of 5
Mint date:
Oct 6th, 2021
Transaction block:
13364875
Primary Sale:
Oct 6th, 2021
First collector:
0x0102ec04c6ba6ded482ad9ad6c8528f741a8e2ae
Edition 5 of 5
Mint date:
Oct 6th, 2021
Transaction block:
13367148
Primary Sale:
Oct 6th, 2021
First collector:
0xa492372c8ded65cbea570eb7d3f588a70d78d9aa